Methods of making pop-up promotional items

A mass production method of making pip-up elements, which method comprises

• providing a continuous web of sheet material, having a first surface and an opposite second printed surface, designed to provide a series of blanks for fabrication into structurally identical pop-up elements,
• applying a first pattern of permanent adhesive to said first surface of said web,
• applying a second pattern of pressure-sensitive to said first surface of said web,
• applying a second pattern of pressure-sensitive adhesive to said second surface of said web,
• manipulating said web so as to superimpose one portion of said first surface of said web upon another portion of said first surface so that said permanent adhesive pattern effects permanent joinder between said portions of said first surface, and
• severing said adhesive-carrying sheet material web so as to create a plurality of individual structurally identical pop-up elements which can be arranged in a stack in alignment with one another with said pressure-sensitive adhesive pattern being located in the same positions on oppositely facing surfaces upon each of said pop-up elements in said stack, and with said pressure-sensitive adhesive being of such a character that one pressure-sensitive adhesive-carrying surface is detachably adhered to another pressure-sensitive adhesive-carrying surface in a manner such that said individual pop-up elements can be readily removed one at a time from said stack,
• whereby said pressure-sensitive adhesive patterns allow said individual pop-up elements to be adhered to a supporting surface or between a pair of facing panels.