The card is exceedingly simple. No point in overdoing a simple thank you. It's a bear who offers a fish. You're expected to notice the bear took a bite out of the fish before offering it.
Both arms are on a single mechanism that flips up. The mechanism is like a "V" shaped like a scoop. The fish is glued onto the paws at a slightly different angle than the arms of the bear so it bends the bear's paws outward.
This
is a sympathy card. Condolences for a friend whose mother passed. My
friend's mother's name is Dot. I
never know what to say on a sympathy card so I don't say anything. My
hope is that the card itself will do the talking for me.
I
also never know what to draw so I tend to lean on the reliable standard
of butterflies = metamorphosis. I thought about including a page with a
caterpillar also with a dot that transformed into a
butterfly with
a dot on a second page. See, the caterpillar with a distinct
dot
could stick out among a bunch of common caterpillars all in movement,
and the butterfly with the dot on the next page would stick out among a
bunch of common butterflies. The message of ineluctable change
occurring within groups and that change being natural would be
unmistakable, and Dot would be followed through change that need not be
terrible, in fact, quite natural.
I dropped all that in favor of a simple one page card of a woman
enjoying the flight of a bunch of butterflies, because condolence cards
must be straightforward and simple.
The
other thing I tend to lean on is Egyptian religious iconography. That
would be more fun for me, and I may still do that when I tire of
butterflies, but I'm fairly certain the whole idea of winged scarab
from beetle would be unappreciated and the idea of a dung beetle in
relation to condolences considered completely off the mark.
I
do not know what got into me. I no longer have any patience to
draft careful drawings. I used to spend hours getting the lines exactly
right but now I don't care. I just scratch out everything rapidly and
that will just have to do. I no longer even clean up my mess.
I
just leave all the construction lines in place without erasure. I just
don't care, and I do not understand that. You'd think that I would at
least try to get my pictures to look a little professional but I never
do.
A page has been written that describes the ideas behind the
construction of this card to enable you to make a card for yourself.
There are no worthwhile templates there, but I do believe you can see
what is going on and use the basic ideas. This page is for viewers who might like to take a shot at making their own cards.
Comments? boure AT comcast DOT net <---
obviously parse that logically into an email
address.
These are three identical cards for
birthdays that coincide at the end of the month. It is a single page
pop-up that depicts a snail town under a tree. There isn't much going
on. Snails apparently lead a perfunctory existence. There is
no envelope. The priority mailer will have to suffice.
This is the zippy zap recap page for viewers with very little interest
or perhaps attention deficit disorder. Here is a much more interestingpage that describes the mess behind all this -- the triumphs and the
failures, the blemishes and the scars, the blood and sweat and tears as
it were, the glue and the paint and the scissors and the X-ACTO blades.
