Time for the annual pop-up holiday card!
~2 minute assembly video:
More stills on my blog: Butterfly OA/Kirigami Pop Up Card - Evermore Stud.io
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Wow this is phenomenal! Great job!
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I always look forward to your annual pop-up card. This one is very beautiful, as they all are. Thanks for sharing.
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Looks great
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So cool….as usual!
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Thanks so much for sharing this. The card is a work of art.
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That is beautiful! I love how the butterfly slides together. Thanks for sharing! Great job!
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Beautiful. Awesome pop up card. 
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Great card!!
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So lovely! Well don!
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Beautiful! The recipients are very fortunate.
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I always enjoy your kirigami creations @evermorian, thank you for sharing them.
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Very nice!!! Love the card!
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How much is MOAG here? No smoke marks anywhere, if you lasered did you mask?
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All of the cutting of the butterfly and the backing card was done on the Glowforge.
I have very dialed-in settings for cutting the card stock [1]. The Seklema mat does a nice job of preventing flashback marking (a shortcoming of the vacuum tray, alas). The clay coat finish on this particular stock is resistant to smoke and ash deposition. I also use Post-It tape to pick up much of the ash from cutting before I peel anything off the Seklema mat (I have shown off that technique somewhere else, will have to look for a link when I have time – basically, you just stick the tape down over the finished cuts, then peel it back up). A fair amount of effort goes into keeping hands, machine, and environment clean when working with white stock.
Edit: The issue I have run into with masking stuff like this is that the only masking material I have found that is not too aggressive (won’t wreck the surface or tear off little bits) is Friskit, which is kind of expensive for making a multiple cards.
[1] There is a painful tradeoff with this kind of thing: lower power will mostly cut through, leaving less scorching, but will leave the cutouts in place so that they have to be removed one by one by poking with a craft knife. It gets tedious when you are making a bunch of cards. A little more power leaves the cutouts (mostly) stuck to the mat.
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Gorgeous, as always!
I’d love to know if you find a replacement white stock that resists charring like this one. My experience with the white cardstock I’m using now (Accent Opaque, Smooth Cover White) is that it chars pretty badly, but I haven’t been using your techniques. I’ll try them.
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Really nice! I like how you designed the two halves to slot together- what a cool effect!
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I did find a stock similar to the Arjowiggins Curious Metallics Ice Gold that I used for another card (details forthcoming in ~12 months). The Fedrigoni Sirio Pearl Ice White and Polar Dawn stocks are a pretty good stand-in. I wouldn’t describe any of these stocks as “white,” exactly. They have a pearlescent finish.
The Sirio Pearl comes in a much narrower range of colors than the Curious line did, but there are enough to play with:
https://specialpapers.fedrigoni.com/serie/sirio-pearl/
Like the Curious Metallics stuff, it is not particularly inexpensive, about $0.49 USD per 8.5" by 11" sheet with shipping.
I would expect a lot of clay coat stocks to be similarly resistant to smoke and ash deposition. Some finishes, like the Curious Skin line (kind of a velvety surface finish), are especially prone to holding on to the deposition. I have mostly used dark colors in stocks with that sort of finish. Getting precise settings and removing the ash with Post-It tape goes a long way, even with that kind of stock, though.
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I was cutting some other prototypes, and took a few minutes to dial-in settings for the plain card stock I am using. This is on Neenah Exact Index 110 lb, chosen for weight and brightness/whiteness. I used 500/50 here. This is just wiped off with a bit of blue paper shop towel after cutting. Most of the grunge on the back side (anything not touching the cut lines) was picked up from the mat because I didn’t clean the mat before cutting (having done several dozen cuts on it since the last cleaning).
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