Showing posts with label Valentine's day pop-up card. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine's day pop-up card. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Egyptian Valentine card

 

I ♥ U.  

In hieroglyphics a heart is two-eared jug. The word is "ib" the hieroglyph is categorized under "F" parts of animals, F34. It is used all over the place, it is a common sign.


The arm swings 45˚ from straight out to straight up and appears to fling the hearts. He just fetched from the marsh with flowers and he is filled with love and hearts.  

Instructions for the step platform crimp mechanism follow, but first Robert Sabuda is offering four templates for make-it-yourself Valentine's Day cards that might work better for you. On account of them being templates and on account  imagination not being required, just obedience on your part and when it comes to projects people seem to like that.

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These templates are all well and good, they will be fine. The thing is, for production purposes, content and tabs and the mechanism itself are combined into a single thing. 

When I make cards the mechanism comes first. It must have tabs to hold on so those are built in but they do not need be. They can be separate hinges. They can be tabs that fit through slots. In the case of the bear, the legs are the glue tabs, the body the V-mechanism, the head content separate from the mechanism, like the arms. But for production, since all that is worked out, they are combined. 

My way builds the mechanism then adds the content onto it. If they were to be mass produced then those elements would be combined as far as they can be.