Paper Engineer Matthew Reinhart shares some very nice pop-up card templates that are easy to make and also fun to decorate, like a bouquet of roses and a 3D pop-up heart.

Pop-Up Valentine Card

Pop-Up Bouquet

How about a pop-up box of Valentine chocolates or a beautiful pop-up rose? Paper Engineer Robert Sabuda shows you step-by-step how to create these wonderful pop-ups yourself.

Pop-Up Rose

Pop-Up Valentine Box

The Endless Love pop-up card, created by Paper Engineer Peter Dahmen, is very symbolic and reveals the text “True love never ends” by folding the flaps. And this is the fun part, by using clever folding techniques, this card is a never-ending message of love! View Template…

One of our favorite YouTube channels is the pop-up tutorial channel Crafting Hours. They provide lots and lots of beautiful pop-up card tutorials that are easy to follow and simple to make. Below you’ll find a selection of some of our favorite Valentine pop-up cards. And you should definitely take a look at their YouTube channel. There’s so much to choose from! More video tutorials…

Surprise your loved one with a special handmade Valentine Heart Box, filled with some delicious sweets or chocolates! Just follow this Art Class from paper engineer Matthew Reinhart to learn how. This creative gift is fun to make and to give! More Art Classes…

Reveal your creativity by taking origami magic into your own hands to make original paper gifts for those whom you love! The designs in this book are from simple to intermediate level of folding and will be great for most origami enthusiasts.

Order at Amazon: Origami Romantic Hearts

Paper Flower Note Cards provides all the information you need. With just scissors, craft glue and a few sheets of colorful heavyweight paper, anyone can create stunning floral gift cards, gift toppers and place cards in no time at all!

Order at Amazon: Paper Flower Note Cards

This is a brief selection of products that can be used to decorate Valentine’s Day pop-ups. Creating your own pop-ups is the most fun when you have the right tools to work with. So that’s why we also have made a selection of the most useful products when it comes to working with paper and pop-ups. Continue to the pop-up supplies page…

We hope you’ve enjoyed this Valentine’s Day DIY pop-up special! If you would like to know more about creating pop-ups you can take a look at our How-to pages about making pop-ups, books about paper engineering and more pop-up tutorials and templates. Don’t forget to share this page with your friends and family!

Reveal your creativity by taking origami magic into your own hands to make original paper gifts for those whom you love! The designs in this book are from simple to intermediate level of folding and will be great for most origami enthusiasts.

Have a creative and fun time with this book making your own Origami Romantic Hearts!

Order at Amazon: Origami Romantic Hearts

Paper Flower Note Cards provides all the information you need. With just scissors, craft glue and a few sheets of colorful heavyweight paper, anyone can create stunning floral gift cards, gift toppers and place cards in no time at all!

This collection includes more than 30 dazzling designs for creative notes and floral decorations.

Order at Amazon: Paper Flower Note Cards

Pop-up cards are the best! Not just because they are beautiful but also because it’s a card and a gift combined. You can display it anywhere in your house as a true eyecatcher, especially when it’s decorated with lots of hearts or flowers. With a little help of pop-up magic, this can’t go wrong!

We go together like… peanut butter and jelly, eggs and bacon, and salt and pepper! This pop-up notecard collection features perfect (food) pairings and are an awesome way to celebrate cherished relationships with your loved ones.

Order at Amazon: We Go Together

Swoon away together with the most romantic Disney Princess fairy tales. You can find them all in this pop-up book that would also make a perfect gift for Valentine’s Day! Join Cinderella as she transforms for the ball or take a ride with Jasmine on a magic carpet, Disney Princess: A Magical Pop-Up World created by Matthew Reinhart is a celebration of these characters and stories. Watch our Video Review…

Receive your ordered pop-up books or greeting cards within 2 days or faster with Amazon Prime. Become a Prime member and discover the many options and benefits Amazon offers.

• Super-fast and FREE shipping
• Flexible delivery options
• Choose from millions of items

After your free trial Prime is just $12.99/month.

Count down the days till Christmas with one of these wonderful pop-up advent calendars.

Open a window each day and discover what keeps Santa busy with this Waiting for Santa Pop-Up Advent Calendar

Sending a Christmas pop-up greeting card is a great way to share your love with friends and family, it’s a gift in itself! Take a look at our selection and find the perfect Holiday pop-up cards to send this year!

Make the holidays extra cozy with some fun paper crafting projects! Create the most wonderful greeting cards, Christmas tree ornaments, table centerpieces or this amazing Paper Christmas Villagethat is perfect for display!

This Holiday Pop-Up Box is the greatest gift card packaging we have ever seen! Amazon Gift Cards are the perfect way to give your friends and family exactly what they’re hoping for, even if you don’t know what it is. Recipients can choose from millions of items storewide. Amazon.com Gift Cards never expire, so they can buy something immediately or wait for that sale of a lifetime! If you want to order or know more about the Amazon Gift Card Christmas Pop-up Box click here… 

• Gift Card is affixed inside a specialty box
• Gift Card has no fees and no expiration date
• No returns and no refunds on Gift Cards
• Gift Card is redeemable towards millions of items at Amazon.com
• Scan and redeem any Gift Card via the Amazon App
• Free One-Day Shipping (where available)

Going trough all these amazing pop-up titles on Amazon, we also discover some new and used collectable (and sometimes pricey) pop-up books. Some titles are old or very exclusive and if you really want to spend some money, you can even find brand new editions of very exclusive pop-up titles.

Receive your ordered pop-up books within 2 days or faster with Amazon Prime. Become a Prime member and discover the many options and benefits Amazon offers.

• Super-fast and FREE shipping
• Flexible delivery options
• Choose from millions of items

After your free trial Prime is just $12.99/month.

Header image credit: The Christmas Story, Frozen, Arctic Christmas, The Gingerbread White House

Angel by Robert Sabuda

Wreath by Matthew Reinhart

Advent Card by Ray Marshall

Snowflake by Popupology

Decorate your own paper Pop-Up Christmas Tree. This foldable pop-up holiday tree is 16 inch (40 cm) tall and comes with a set of charming paper ornaments for decoration. Or be creative and make your own beautiful paper ornaments! You’ll find more inspiration on this page.

This pop-up tree will be perfect for a table centerpiece, party decoration or holiday home decor!

Peter Dahmen is a designer and paper artist, specialized in paper engineering and pop-ups. He is a developer of pop-up cards and foldable artworks made from paper and cardboard. On his YouTube channel you’ll find some great tutorials and templates to create your own pop-ups for Christmas!

Make the holidays extra cozy with some fun paper crafting projects! With these books you can create the most wonderful greeting cards, Christmas tree ornaments, table centerpieces or this amazing Paper Christmas Village that is perfect for display!

Paper engineer Matthew Reinhart shows you how to make your own amazing Christmas pop-up creations like this Christmas advent calendar packed with mini pops! Visit and subscribe to his YouTube Channel for more video tutorials and Let’s make it pop!

Have a creative time with this book making your own Origami Christmas Treats for Christmas Trees! There are almost 200 detailed step-by-step colorful diagrams with instructions and photos of examples of completed projects.

With only paper and folding, you can create fabulous holiday decorations for your Christmas tree!

There lots of fun Christmas pop-up and papercraft tutorials to find on YouTube. Decorate your Christmas tree with homemade paper ornaments, make a beautiful pop-up greeting card for someone or make your home cozy for the holidays.

This is a brief selection of products that can be used to decorate Christmas pop-ups. Creating your own pop-ups is the most fun when you have the right tools to work with. So that’s why we also have made a selection of the most useful products when it comes to working with paper and pop-ups. Continue to the pop-up supplies page…

Creating Christmas pop-ups with templates is very entertaining. Most printable pop-up templates come in black & white so you might want to color and decorate your project. You can give your project some color with markers, paint or colored paper but there’s much more that you can do to give your project that extra Christmas touch!

Glitter & glue

Some of the most beautiful winter and Christmas pop-up books we know use glitters. The effect of glitters works best when an object is moving and you’ve guessed it right, thats why a pop-up is perfect to use for glitters! By using holographic glitter on white paper, you can make a pop-up look like it’s frosted or you can add some holographic glitter to snowy landscapes for that extra touch of sparkling snow. Another great usage of glitter is to use the same color glitter as the paper. By adding red glitters to red paper, the pop-up transforms into a festive holiday pop-up! It’s very easy to decorate your pop-ups with glitter by first drawing some glue lines around the cut-outs and sprinkle those with glitters. Let it dry for about an hour and carefully brush off the remaining glitter that you can re-use for your next projects. There’s no need to use strong glue to add glitters so we recommend to use Elmer’s School Glue which dries transparent. Working with glitter can be a bit messy. If you don’t want your desk (and yourself) covered with glitters you can also choose for Glitter Glue, a two-in-one product that is less wasteful and easy to apply.

Decorate

You can choose from a variety of beautiful paper sheets that you can order online but there are many other ways of being creative with what you can use to decorate a Christmas pop-up. You can cut out details or patterns from Christmas wrapping paper and glue that on your pop-up. You can also use ribbon, that folds in-and-out with your pop-ups with ease. And let’s not forget gold and silver(chrome) paper that is perfect for that typical Christmas look! There’s so much more than colored paper to use for your Christmas pop-ups. Just look around in your house for empty packages (gold and silver paper), ribbons, glitters, some Christmas wrapping paper and don’t forget to check out our pop-up supplies guide for everything else you’ll need to create pop-ups. All you need is your imagination and you’re good to go! Just make sure your pop-up don’t gets to bulky.

Christmas Color combinations

The most basic Christmas color combinations are obvious but beautiful. Did you know that the most used combination for DIY projects is the classic combination of candy cane red and white? But there’s so much more to discover and use as a color palette for your Christmas project! In case you’re looking for inspiration to give your Christmas pop-up some color, we’ve created a set of color combinations that fits almost every pop-up theme or design. How about a palette of Santa’s workshop with some gold details? Or a beautiful combination of blues and bright yellow to create an Arctic night? It’s all in our Christmas Color guide!

We hope you’ve enjoyed this Christmas DIY pop-up special! If you would like to know more about creating pop-ups you can take a look at our How-to pages about making pop-ups, books about paper engineering and more pop-up tutorials and templates. Don’t forget to share this page with your friends and family!

Paper Blossoms for All Seasons: A Book of Beautiful Bouquets for the Table is a pop-up book with four spreads that you can also display as a paper bouquet.

Paper Engineer Ray Marshall created a pop-up spread for every season, including a beautiful autumn flower arrangement.

Readers of all ages will enjoy the timeless wonder of autumn leaves in this amazing pop-up book from Paper Engineer Yoojin Kim. This book includes amazing pop-ups, educational information, and delightful interactive elements that offer change and surprise on every page in this lyrical look at Autumn. Order at Amazon: Leaves: An Autumn Pop-Up Book

Pop-up cards are great! Not just because they are beautiful and surprising but also because it’s a card and a gift combined. These autumn style pop-up cards are perfect to display during the season and will be a true eyecatcher with all their beautiful autumn colors.

From a nestful of spring chicks and a summer meadow, to the whirling leaves of autumn and a snowy forest, children will love poring over the 3D scenes and exploring the four seasons in this wonderful pop-up book.

Amazon: Pop-Up Seasons

Autumn: A Pop-Up Book is Paper Engineer David A. Carter’s third book in his pop-up book series about the seasons. Each spread has a brief verse and depicts flora and fauna commonly found during the fall. Pictures of turkeys, wheat, pumpkins, sage, and more are labeled with simple text, making the book easy for young readers to understand and enjoy. Order at Amazon: Autumn: A Pop-Up Book

Receive your ordered pop-up books or greeting cards within 2 days or faster with Amazon Prime. Become a Prime member and discover the many options and benefits Amazon offers.

• Super-fast and FREE shipping
• Flexible delivery options
• Choose from millions of items

After your free trial Prime is just $12.99/month.

Watch your back! This selection of pop-up books is all about haunted houses! Find out what’s behind a closed door or pull a tab to wake the ghosts. A fun list with scary pop-up books including this Pop-Up Haunted House which is filled with ghosts, vampires, skeletons and a whole host of monsters.

Are those really great costumes – or are they real skeletons?!? Join two Trick or Treaters and their faithful dog as they make their rounds on Halloween night.

Silly Skeletons: A Not-So-Spooky Pop-Up Book features movable scenes, pop-ups, and new friends on every page.

Experience Tim Burton’s iconic film like never before with this nightmarish pop-up of monstrous proportions! A celebration marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the groundbreaking movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas pop-up book created by Matthew Reinhart will be the perfect gift for fans, holiday ghouls, and undead merrymakers alike!

Shriek in fear at the sight of the old ugly witch conjuring black magic on All Hallow’s Eve! From the ghastly team that brought you Skinner’s Necronomicon pop-up book comes the greatest Halloween pop up card of all time.

The Come Closer Pop Up Card also comes with a free sticker. Happy Halloween!

Especially for the creatives, here are some great DIY books and crafting sets that are perfect for Halloween. Paper Monsters deftly combines paper craft with advanced paper engineering so no nightmares with glue, tape or tools ever happen!

Going trough all these amazing pop-up titles on Amazon, we also discover some new and used collectable (and sometimes pricey) pop-up books. Some titles are old or very exclusive and if you really want to spend some money, you can even find brand new editions of very exclusive pop-up titles.

Receive your ordered pop-up books within 2 days or faster with Amazon Prime. Become a Prime member and discover the many options and benefits Amazon offers.

• Super-fast and FREE shipping
• Flexible delivery options
• Choose from millions of items

After your free trial Prime is just $12.99/month.

Header image credit: Silly Ghosts, Silly Skeletons, Dracula, Halloween Bugs

Pop-Up Ghost

Pop-Up Witch

Pop-Up Bat

Pop-Up Spider

A creepy Victorian mansion is loaded with spooky fun, inside and out! Enter an eerie world with this cut-and-assemble model, which allows you to see both sides of a haunted house.

Simple instructions ensure that it’ll be easy to put your new house together and let the haunting begin!

Amazon: Cut & Assemble Haunted House

Pop-up book author and paper engineer Matthew Reinhart shows you how to make your own Halloween pop-up cards while he explains the different techniques he uses. These video tutorials are perfect for those who are looking for some great DIY Halloween paper craft projects. Let’s make it pop!

Paper Dandy’s Horrorgami features 20 kirigami (cut-and-fold) designs based around haunted houses and scenes from horror films. Each project features step-by-step instructions and a template that you remove from the book.

Horrorgami makes the perfect Halloween activity so we gave it a try and ordered it to review. Read more…

Above we’ve already seen some fun video tutorials but Matthew Reinhart also offers a bunch of pop-up templates on his website. For Halloween you can find this scary pumpkin pop-up or choose the Frankenstein template to create a cool and surprising Halloween pop-up card!

Pop-Up Pumpkin

Pop-Up Frankenstein

Whether you’re a fan of things that go bump in the night or not, you’ll find these scary creatures too cute to scream at. Paper Monsters deftly combines paper craft with advanced paper engineering so no nightmares with glue, tape or tools ever happen!

Of course, you can also search YouTube for ideas and tutorials for Halloween. There are many to find so there is plenty to choose from! This is just a small selection of some spooky Halloween tutorials that we’ve found for you…

Learn how to fold 10 original origami models that come with full-color diagrams and instructions. Make them multiple times and add or change a few folds to give your model a new touch. Giving life to paper with just a few folds and your own interpretation!

Amazon: Origami for Halloween

Creating your own pop-ups is the most fun when you have the right tools to work with. So that’s why we also have made a selection of of products that can be used to create and decorate your Halloween pop-ups. For more supplies, continue to the pop-up supplies page…

We hope you’ve enjoyed this Halloween DIY pop-up special! If you would like to know more about creating pop-ups you can take a look at our How-to pages about making pop-ups, books about paper engineering and more pop-up tutorials and templates. Don’t forget to share this page with your friends and family!

Peek inside this spring-inspired pop-up book and discover how flowers are more than just beautiful; they are critical components of the natural world.

Flora: A Botanical Pop-up Book is filled with unique pop-ups, revealing pull-tabs, and captivating facts.

These wonderful Floral Envelopes, created by UWP Luxe, will make an original and surprising gift for Mother’s Day!

This set includes 8 cards and matching envelopes finished with gold foil, packaged in a keepsake box.

Books for grandma, to cherish herself or to read to her grandchildren again and again. We’re sure that a gift like this will make any granny happy on Mother’s Day!

Paper Sweets combines paper craft with advanced paper engineering so no glue, tape or tools are needed! All 20 pages have unique designs that are pre-cut, scored and deliciously illustrated with yummy sweets. Each delicacy punches out and folds up into a 3D shape with easy-to-follow instructions.

Receive your ordered pop-up books or greeting cards within 2 days or faster with Amazon Prime. Become a Prime member and discover the many options and benefits Amazon offers.

• Super-fast and FREE shipping
• Flexible delivery options
• Choose from millions of items

After your free trial Prime is just $12.99/month.

Bouquet by Matthew Reinhart

Gerbera Daisy by Ray Marshall

Mother’s Day Flower by Robert Sabuda

Rose by Robert Sabuda

This universal Flower Pop-Up card, created by Peter Dahmen, will make a perfect gift for Mother’s Day. With this pop-up template you can create any floral design you want! Download the template and watch the video tutorial for instructions on how to make this pop-up card.

Of course, you can also search YouTube for ideas and tutorials for Mother’s Day. There are many to find so there is plenty to choose from! This is just a small selection of some fun Mother’s Day pop-up tutorials that we’ve found for you…

Paper Sweets combines paper craft with advanced paper engineering so no glue, tape or tools are needed! All 20 pages have unique designs that are pre-cut, scored and deliciously illustrated with yummy sweets. Each delicacy punches out and folds up into a 3D shape with easy-to-follow instructions.

Haven’t decided yet what to make for Mother’s Day? You can do many things with paper so how about a beautiful bouquet of handcrafted paper flowers? The following video tutorials show you how to make all kinds of different flowers. Pick a flower your mom really loves or just make them all to create a beautiful flower arrangement. We know for sure that any mom will love a gift like this!

Creating your own pop-ups is the most fun when you have the right tools to work with. So that’s why we’ve have made a selection of products that can be used to create and decorate your Mother’s Day pop-up cards. For more supplies, continue to the pop-up supplies page…

We hope you’ve enjoyed this DIY Mother’s Day pop-up special! If you would like to know more about creating pop-ups you can take a look at our How-to pages about making pop-ups, books about paper engineering and more pop-up tutorials and templates. Don’t forget to share this page with your friends and family!

Rabbit by Robert Sabuda

Easter Basket by Matthew Reinhart

Pop-up book author and paper engineer Matthew Reinhart shows you how to make your own Easter pop-up cards while he explains the different techniques he uses. His YouTube videos are perfect for anyone who’s looking for some fun do-it-yourself Easter paper craft projects. Let’s make it pop!

Are you looking for some nice Easter decorations to make yourself? Then these cuddly origami paper bunny’s might be perfect!

Whether you’ve done 3D origami before or not, these pre-cut and pre-folded paper models are easy to assemble and will be a true eye-catcher in any home! Order at Amazon: Origami Bunny DIY Kit

For more paper craft inspiration, you should definitely take a look on YouTube. From decorative Easter egg ornaments, origami rabbits to the most beautiful spring flowers, there is something to find for everyone. With these wonderful crafting ideas you’ll have your basket filled with enough treats for an awesome Easter!

Creating your own pop-ups is the most fun when you have the right tools to work with. So that’s why we also have made a selection of of products that can be used to create and decorate your Easter pop-ups. For more supplies, continue to the pop-up supplies page…

Our Community Forum is a great place to share your paper creations with other pop-up fans and paper engineers. Get ideas and inspiration or share useful tips and advice with each other about all things paper!

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We hope you’ve enjoyed this DIY Easter pop-up special! If you would like to know more about creating pop-ups you can take a look at our How-to pages about making pop-ups, books about paper engineering and more pop-up tutorials and templates. Don’t forget to share this page with your friends and family!