party fish pop-up card

How this came about in 21 photographs and no words. Although, I suppose I should mention, those are my hands, photographed, printed, then photographed again in these pictures holding up the printed pictures of themselves. Very Escheresque over there.

The card features two tables, one of my favorite mechanisms. One table is one inch high and the other table is two inches high. In the world of pop-up making, that means one table must be within one inch from edge and the other table must be two inches from the edge, a precision easily enough arrived at by trimming. The two tables intersect and share a post on the card's spine, but not really because the posts are stacked. I'd rather deal with simply what fits within the card than measure things mathematically but it's good to to have an exact size for the posts. This card, if you analyze it, doesn't actually pop up, rather, the posts prevent the leaf from falling flat, forming a table, they simply elevate the leaf above its natural position. Three posts per table, all parallel, the center post along the spine. <--incomplete sentence, but I don't care. The posts are made first. Careful measurements and scoring required for all folds, but oddly, not for cuts. Get all that out of the way right off because the work space gets a bit messy after that. Construction-wise, it all gets down to making the posts exactly.  

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