Cut Aways
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Of all the basic one-piece pop-up techniques, Cut Aways is without doubt the most versatile and openended, but perhaps also the most difficult to master fully. Nevertheless, even a rudimentary understanding of this useful technique will add visual interest to the most basic pop-up. In essence, a cut away frees material at a crease so that it can rise away from the crease. It is the best to draw the complete construction before cutting and creasing the pop-up.
1. Having carefully drawn the construction, begin to slit, as shown. Then cut the semicircle, square and triangle.
2. Indent or score the creases. Do not crease them by eye as this will not be accurate.
3. Begin to from the pop-up. Crease the red line as a mountain fold and the green lines as valley folds.
4. Flatten the creased pop-up and press it firmly to reinforce the creases.
This design is not a pop-up in the conventional sense, but the four vertical creases permit the numerals to stand away from the mountain folds in a pop-up manner. The card (cardboard) for each numeral comes from the rear face of each pleat, neatly out of sight. The possibilities for layering designs in this way are endless.
Each shape stands unsupported, transforming an ordinary triangular pop-up into a complex and intriguing shape.
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1. Having carefully drawn the construction, begin to slit, as shown. Then cut the semicircle, square and triangle.
3. Begin to from the pop-up. Crease the red line as a mountain fold and the green lines as valley folds.
4. Flatten the creased pop-up and press it firmly to reinforce the creases.
This design is not a pop-up in the conventional sense, but the four vertical creases permit the numerals to stand away from the mountain folds in a pop-up manner. The card (cardboard) for each numeral comes from the rear face of each pleat, neatly out of sight. The possibilities for layering designs in this way are endless.
Each shape stands unsupported, transforming an ordinary triangular pop-up into a complex and intriguing shape.