A fun fold card with a delightful surprise inside—three pop-up sections that bring your card design to life.
The Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold is the newest Crafternoon design and a perfect way to add a delightful surprise inside your handmade cards. Instead of leaving the interior flat or lightly decorated, this design creates a fun, dimensional reveal when the card is opened. Three pop-up arms extend from the center, allowing you to show layered elements that add depth and visual interest. Each section can be customized with different shapes, die cuts, or stamped images to coordinate with your card design, making it incredibly versatile for a wide variety of styles and occasions. It’s a fun design that delivers big impact—while still folding flat to fit in a standard envelope.
In this post, I’m sharing a step-by-step video tutorial showing how to create the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold card base. In the video I show multiple versions of the card to give you ideas for a variety of occasions. If you’d like a printable document with all of the measurements, step-by-step photos and detailed instructions for every version shown, you can purchase the full fun fold card tutorial. It’s a complete guide that walks you through the construction of the card base and each design from start to finish.
As always, thank you for making and sending handmade cards — you truly are making the world a kinder place, one card at a time.
Five unique versions of the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Cards!
The Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold takes on a whole new look with each version —let’s look at all of them up close!
Forever Florals Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Card
This gorgeous floral overlay die from the Forever Florals bundle is just stunning—perfect for anniversaries, weddings, or sending a heartfelt card to let someone know you’re thinking of them!
Lovely Blossoms Designer Series Paper is so easy to work with. It paired up beautifully with the elegant Forever Florals bundle from the March Online Exclusives.
The Forever Florals bundle also has these lovely layering rectangles that are perfect for the pop-up arms.
In this close up you can really see the amazing detail of the Forever Florals overlay die – lovely!
Notes of Spring Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Card
The March Product of the Month, the Notes of Spring stamp set (just $5 with a $75 order) makes a prefect masculine card! Especially when paired with the Woodgrain Wonders Designer Series Paper!
I like the Mossy Meadow leaves behind the fawn – it looks like it is tucked among the leaves in a forest! To create them I used the Paradise Garden Hybrid Embossing Folder from the Paradise Garden bundle. The bundle includes the embossing folder, dies, and the stamp set.
The pop-up arms inside do all the work for you—creating a dimensional look that works especially well for masculine cards.
The 15 piece Notes of Spring stamp set includes “coloring fill in stamps” for all of the outline images. For the fawn I inked the color fill in stamp in Pecan Pie, stamped it on a scrap paper, and then stamped it over the outline of the fawn.
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Wow! I’m so excited that the Scalloped Wishes bundle is back in stock! It makes gorgeous cards! This card would be perfect for birthdays, anniversaries, or weddings – just customize the inside greeting.
The sweet scallops are perfect shapes to pop up on the arms!
I walk you through step-by-step in the PDF tutorial so that you can create this stunning card.
The stamped scallop under the die cut scallop adds extra elegance.
Sneak Peek of New Products Coming in the May Catalog! Phrases & Frames with Bloom Boutique Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Card
Squee! Sneak peek of my million sales Phrases & Frames bundle! This will be available for purchase on May 5th when the new catalog begins – or you can get it in the starter kit now!
Shaped dies are the ideal solution for the pop-up arms – so I HAD to use the my million sales bundle, right??!! And the Hydrangea Hue new In Color is going to be SO popular!!
The In Color Butterfly embellishments are coming on May 5th as well.
I love switching out the centers of the different ovals in the frames. This Hydrangea Hue oval center came from the frame just below it, I swapped it out for the middle of the DSP frame!
The Bloom Boutique Designer Series Paper (also coming out on May 5th) is simply gorgeous!
Nature’s Symphony Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Card
This month’s featured project of the Triple Arm Pop-Up card showcases the beautiful textures and nature-inspired details from the Nature’s Symphony dies and Paradise Garden bundle. The front of the card is simple but elegant – giving no hint of the fun surprise inside!
I paired the Nature Walk Designer Series Paper with circle punches to decorate the pop-up arms inside the card. The soft embossing and layered elements add depth, letting that pop-up surprise really shine when the card is opened.
Customers who placed a $50 order in my online store in February received a packet in the mail in March to make this Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Card.
The large leaf die from the Nature’s Symphony dies is a stunner—it makes it easy to create an elegant card you’ll want to use again and again.
A closer look at the pop-up arms—this is where the magic happens when the card is opened.
The card easily flattens to slide into a standard envelope. Finished size for all the Triple Arm Pop-Up fun fold cards is 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ and they all fit in a standard A2 Envelope.
What makes the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold so fun is the surprise inside. The three pop-up arms create dimension and movement, giving you a unique way to feature your favorite papers and images. It may look detailed, but I walk you through every version, step by step in the PDF tutorial!
In the free fun fold card tutorial video below, I show you how to create the Triple Arm Pop-Up card base. If you’d like all of the measurements, scoring lines, and detailed photo instructions for the card base and every alternate design, the complete Triple Arm Pop-Up PDF tutorial is available as a purchasable digital download.
Would you like to create along with me in the next Crafternoon?
It’s easy to join the virtual monthly Crafternoon event – I hope you join us next month!
How to join the fun? When you place a $50 Stampin’ Up! product order with me (after rewards credits and before tax and shipping) you will receive a packet in the mail the following month for the next Crafternoon AND you will get the PDF tutorial for that month’s Crafternoon fun fold cards for free! The tutorial has all the card designs with dimensions, step-by-step instructions, photos, and the supplies for the projects. A whole lot of love always goes into each and every packet! ❤️
I am only able to accept Stampin’ Up! product orders from those who live in the United States. However anyone around the globe can purchase any of the Crafternoon tutorials – you can find them all HERE.
Video tutorial for the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Card
In this video, I walk you through assembling the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold card. Details for all the designs are in the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold card digital PDF tutorial including all of the dimensions, supplies, instructions, and step-by-step photos. The digital tutorial can be downloaded and printed to refer to while you craft. Or you can save the tutorial to your device and look at it that way.
Details about the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Card Digital PDF Tutorial for purchase are below!
Ready to make the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold cards? It is easy with this fun fold card tutorial. You can purchase the Triple Arm Pop-Up Fun Fold Card Tutorial for $15 US. Print the tutorial or review it on your device after you download it. The tutorial will walk you through how to recreate this fun fold style, step-by-step with instructions for all of the versions.
I started Crafternoon in January of 2022 with a different unique fun fold every month. You can check out ALL 51 Crafternoon Fun Folds HERE.
NOTE: If you are a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator you are welcome to purchase these tutorials! If you would like to use these ideas to teach a class, instructing verbally is fine. However, please do NOT hand out, forward, replicate, or copy my written tutorials. If your customers wish to purchase the written tutorials please direct them to this blog post. Thank you for understanding!
Join the Crafternoon fun!
Thank you for letting me share this creative fun fold with you! I would love to send you a packet for next month’s Suestampfield Crafternoon Creative Escape. If you live in the United States, to qualify for a packet and tutorial, simply place a $50 order of Stampin’ Up! product (after rewards credits and before tax and shipping) in my online Stampin’ Up! store HERE. Happy creating!
Click on the photos below to see the items in my online Stampin’ Up! store.
Nature’s Symphony Card Supplies:
Masculine Notes of Spring Card Supplies:
Phrases & Frames with Bloom Boutique Card Supplies:
The following supplies from the Phrases & Frames with Bloom Boutique Triple Arm Pop-Up Card will be available on May 5th in the new catalog or can be added to the starter kit now.
- Phrases & Frames Bundle Item 167587
- Impressions Plate Item 167767
- Boutique Blossoms Dies Item 167653
- Bloom Boutique Designer Series Paper Item 167637
- 2026 – 2028 In Color Butterflies Item 167656
- Hydrangea Hue Classic Stampin’ Pad Item 167677
- Hydrangea Hue 8-1/2” x 11” Cardstock Item 167687
Love your cards & videos. Your are such an inspiration to all card makers around the world. I am a SU demonstrator for over 10 years and still love learning new FUN folds and new techniques. I have a few of your tutorials and have shared your ideas to my own class. Love hearing your stories about your puppy and the Tree farm.
Thank you Karen, I’m so glad you get creative inspiration from my projects!