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I want to create something that when folded up, looks like a (albeit thick) regular homemade holiday card, but when unfolded it becomes something huge. The only thing I have in mind as to the huge part is "I Love You" in big letters. And maybe "will you be my valentine" but it's a rather long sentence, and I'm looking to start out small on this. The other part is I'm looking to encase a cd within it, so that when it opens up, you'll have the cd underneath the letters kind of held there for display.

I don't think anything like this exists. I know I can force a pop up card that says that, but I'd rather be sneaky and make it extravangant while still seeming like a regular card.

The other idea is I make it seem like a wrapped present, and then when it's opened something extend in like fashion to the card I just mentioned.

I did find http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/treasurechest.pdf
this, which looks promising. I could modify it such that I have lots of paper to fold between the chest top and chest bottom.

Any ideas? Any help is appreciated, as if I can't figure it out with just one large piece of paper I can always bring out my dreaded scissors and kindergarden the job. I find it <i>far</i> more surprising and meaningful if I figured out how to achieve this with one sheet and little to no cutting involved.

As far as I can remember Jeremy Shafer has some nice pop-up-cards on his site: http://barf.cc/diagrams/diagrams.htm
Maybe you can use them to create what you want. Also check out his heartfelt models, maybe it is possible to combine two models in such a way you imagined.


The other thing I can think of would be something non-Origami related:
http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/jun_m/card ... x-eng.html

Those 3d card ones are actually something I saw earlier, but I don't think it achieves the "Looks like a normal gift card and then opens up into a huge extravangent piece of origami" thing I'm looking for.

At this point I've given up on trying to combine the card with the cd, the card will be it's own thing. I'll use the treasure box design to make the holder for the cd, and now the card is what I'm seeking. What stinks is every time I google "Origami Cards" of any variation, I get those kind of cards instead of creative greeting/holiday cards .

And what about making a jack-in-a-box, but instead of a jack a heart pops out? So you could include your cd as wished previously and it also seems a very special gift to me.

http://dev.origami.com/images_pdf/jack_in_a_box.pdf
http://hugo.pereira.free.fr/Origami_Diagrams/Jack.pdf
http://barf.cc/jeremy/origami/PDF_diags ... rtattk.pdf

A treasure chest <i>and</i> a heart-in-the-box? I think you've got it. I wonder if this is accomplishable with one sheet ... I have my activity for tomorrow, that's for sure!

Thank you!