I love cards that have unexpected action and find my inspiration in a variety of different places. I recently discovered a UK firm specializing in unusual promotional materials. This stuff blows my mind. Here's just one video:
Very clever, well-executed ideas. I am trying to figure out how these mechanisms work -- it inspires me to reach a little farther in my paper engineering efforts!
Check out their website for absolutely a treasure trove of wonderful items:
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Do you have the book, Elements of Pop Up by David Carter? It's in there.
You can get a pattern for the mechanism from his site. Let me know if you can't figure out how it goes together, I have that book.
http://www.popupbooks.com/surprise.html
Scroll down to page 7-35 and 7-35a to print out the pieces and the base.
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Carol
I do have that book (and love, love, love it -- on of my favorite all time popup how-to books) -- actually the duck one is one I figured out (with help from David Carter), but there are a bunch of others I'm working on...
Thanks!
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