For my pop-up card I began with brainstorming different ideas for the pop-up. I found a video of a pop-up flower card which I liked and thought I could use as my main idea. I took a piece of scrap paper with fire-like colors as the pattern on the outside of the card. Sticking with a fire theme, I used orange paper to cut out the multiple flowers and purposefully made them with pointy edges to enhance the theme. Next I colored the inside of each with a red marker, to give the flowers some color. I wanted my card to look clean so I chose plain white paper for the inside. I struggled with connecting the flowers in a certain way where they would open up connected in the center. The glue I was using was not strong enough leading to the individual flowers separating a lot. But in the end I was successful in making the flowers open up the right way. For the circuit I wanted the lights to shine through the flowers so I made a circuit on the fire patterned scrap paper and then cut out holes in the white paper for the lights to go through. My first attempt was unsuccessful because I realized that the lights cannot connect to the copper tape from under, leading the the lights not turning on. Therefore I remade the parallel circuit (with four lights) on the outside paper, with a switch on the left and a battery in the right corner. I also put the battery on a flap because I did not want the outside card to fold over. It was easy to resolve for I put the negative and positive copper tapes on the square piece and folded that over the battery. For the switch I taped a copper piece on the backside where when it is pushed it creates a circuit for the other 2 lights. And in the last step I connected the flower pop-up with the circuit card using glue. Overall, through my challenges I came up with a card similar to my idea but if I had more time I would've loved to add more to the design.
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