Peel Back
A wax-sealed envelope — cream cover with serif copperplate; hover peels the flap to reveal a scarlet wax seal beneath.
Peel Back the 8th of 22 designs in the 22 CSS Stacked Card Designs collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
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The code
<div class="scd-peel">
<div class="scd-peel__back">
<div class="scd-peel__seal">JK</div>
<h4>RSVP</h4>
<p>You are cordially invited.</p>
</div>
<div class="scd-peel__front">
<span class="scd-peel__monogram">CF</span>
<span class="scd-peel__line">— Hover to open —</span>
</div>
</div> .scd-peel { position: relative; width: 200px; height: 140px; margin: 0 auto; perspective: 1000px; cursor: pointer; }
.scd-peel__back, .scd-peel__front {
position: absolute; inset: 0; border-radius: 4px;
display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;
flex-direction: column; gap: 4px;
text-align: center;
}
.scd-peel__back {
background: #faf3e3;
color: #1a1a1a; padding: 16px;
border: 1px solid #d4c8a3;
}
.scd-peel__seal {
width: 38px; height: 38px;
background: radial-gradient(circle at 35% 30%, #c44, #8b1a1a);
color: #faf3e3;
border-radius: 50%;
display: grid; place-items: center;
font: 900 13px ui-serif, Georgia;
box-shadow: 0 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.3), inset -2px -3px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
margin-bottom: 6px;
}
.scd-peel__back h4 { margin: 0; font: 700 14px/1 ui-serif, Georgia; letter-spacing: 0.18em; }
.scd-peel__back p { margin: 0; font: italic 11px/1.4 ui-serif, Georgia; color: #5a4a30; }
.scd-peel__front {
background: #faf3e3;
color: #1a1a1a;
border: 1px solid #d4c8a3;
transform-origin: top right;
transition: transform .5s cubic-bezier(.3,1,.3,1);
box-shadow: 0 8px 22px -8px rgba(0,0,0,0.45);
}
.scd-peel__front::before {
content: '';
position: absolute; inset: 0;
background:
linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent 49%, #d4c8a3 49.5%, transparent 50.5%);
}
.scd-peel__monogram {
font: 900 26px/1 ui-serif, Georgia; color: #8b1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.08em;
border: 1.5px solid #8b1a1a; padding: 4px 10px; border-radius: 2px;
}
.scd-peel__line { font: italic 10px/1 ui-serif, Georgia; color: #5a4a30; letter-spacing: 0.12em; }
.scd-peel:hover .scd-peel__front { transform: rotate3d(-1, 1, 0, 75deg); }