Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card

katrine2706
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Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - standing open card I had seen this on the internet long ago. I don't have the exact details and materials to be used, but I made my own version based on what I could recall.

I find this project amazing and best used for the upcoming Mother's Day and my mom's birthday celebration as well. It is just like a simple kid's school activity and you could share or make it with them as part of their fun craft activity. Besides, little ones sometimes have better ideas.

Supplies:

1/2 of 8.5 x 14 inch cardboard paper
cardboard paper strip at 4cm x 19cm
cardboard paper strip at 4cm x 10cm
art paper in assorted colors cut into heart shapes
ruler
pen
markers
scissors
glue

Steps:

Get the long paper strip (4cm x 19cm). Fold the strip leaving a small allowance on the tip, making one side shorter than the other.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - fold long strip with one side longer than the other

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - extra length on one side of fold

Draw lines on the short side of the strip with .5cm spacing. In my project, I have seven colors so I drew 13 lines beginning from the fold.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - draw lines from side to side at .5cm on the short side of the folded strip

Fold the paper, following the lines, in alternate directions so it look likes this.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - fold the paper accordion style

Now put glue on the upper tip (only) at the back of your heart shapes. Stick them onto each of the lines with one space in between each heart. It will look like layers of hearts in different colors.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - glue hearts in every other fold

Flip and glue the tip of the paper strip at the back of the last heart.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - turn over and glue the end of the strip to the back of the last heart

Stick it onto the center of the small (4cm x 10cm) strip which is positioned horizontally. So it should look like this.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - glue heart strip to center of the shorter of your original two strips

Flip the long strip open and write your message inside.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - flip the long strip open and write your message inside

Put some glue on the sides of the smaller strip and stick it onto the center of the card.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - add glue to the ends of the smaller strip

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - attach to the card

Add a little detail by cutting out a small heart. Write "pull me!" and stick it onto the space allowance you provided on the long strip. (It is where the hidden message was written.)

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - cut out a smaller heart and write "Pull Me" on it

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - glue to the end of the longer portion of the strip

You can write your message on the layer of hearts or leave it blank.
Slowly pull down the tiny heart to reveal the hidden message and at the same time see the effect of the heart layers.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - pull down to read the message and see the opening heart effect

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - side view of open hearts with a message on each heart

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - full message on strip visible

Decorate the front cover of your card using markers and tiny hearts.

Mother's Day Surprise Greeting Card - decorate the front of the card

Done! Give your mom this amazingly unique hidden message greeting card. She'll love it.

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