Girl Pirates! a 3D card

My very talented Mum-in-law saw this form of card on a TV programme and, instead of being sucked into spending lashings of cash on a kit, figured out the mechanism and made some for herself using stuff she already had.

LOOK!

It's SO hard to show a 3D card in 2D. This is what it looks like when it's flat...

Then when it's pushed on the sides it opens up into a box (like a long square tube: cuboid I suppose), and the side flaps fall down, thus...

That was a side view. The picture is built up of layers of smaller pictures at different depths like so...

The finished front image is this

and each falling flap has its own image too: main image flat at top, side images at the bottom.

The photos really don't do it justice, but I hope you get the idea.
She has a machine that cuts out the images using different dies, but you can use your own images, photos, bought sheets of accessories etc.

She's made another couple in a different style completely and I'll show you those another day!