Patent ID: 6966135

Claim:
A pop-up greeting card, comprising: (a) a first card panel; (b) a second card panel integrally formed with and hingedly connected by a common hinge line to said first card panel; (c) a pop-up element secured between each of said first and second card panels; (d) means for securing said pop-up element to said first card panel and said second card panel respectively; (e) said pop-up element including serially arranged panels defined by respective fold lines; (f) said pop-up element having a top surface and a front surface integrally formed with and hingedly connected by a common fold line to the top surface; (g) said pop-up element integrally adjoined with said first and second card panels so that a three-dimensional configuration of the pop-up greeting card is formed when said first and second card panels are moved apart and said pop-up element is capable of folding together when said first and second card panels are brought together; (h) said pop-up element having a presentation support element with a first end and a second end, the first end integrally formed with and hingedly connected centrally along said common hinge line to the pop-up element and the second end free; (i) said presentation support element having an elongated pocket slot being positioned centrally along the length of said presentation support element and parallel to said common hinge line; j) said pop-up element having an elongated pop-up slot being positioned centrally on said top surface and parallel to said common hinge line, through which said second end of the presentation support element periscopes when said first and second card panels are moved apart; (k) at least one media item being removably inserted in said pocket slot such that the media item protrudes at least partially through said elongated pop-up slot when said first and second card panels are brought together; (l) said first and second card panels packaging the at least one media item within the pop-up greeting card when said first and second card panels are brought together, (m) said free end of the presentation support element extending the at least one media item through the pop-up slot as the fee end of the presentation support element periscopes through the pop-up slot when said first and second card panels are moved apart; and (n) whereby the at least one media item is presented to a recipient of the pop-up greeting card when said first and second card panels are moved apart.