This is a 3-page pop-up card to acknowledge a friend's birthday. This year his birthday coincides with Easter, most unfortunate in my view because that means his personal celebration is shared with something that, frankly, is more significant.
Seldom do I ever have a chance to see anybody open one of my cards because I am usually not there when it happens so I have no way to gauge their reaction. But this time was different because I co-hosted a party for the person at my home. The party was rather large. Oddly, people had gathered in one of the bedrooms because that is where the cards were collected. With no small sense of drama, my friend Paul opened his cards and shared them with the room packed with people. Knowing by now that the card from yours truly would be some sort of pop-up, he saved it for last.
The room was blown away. No brag, just fact. I overheard one woman say to Paul, "Surely, you must know how much somebody loves you to do all this." Others simply marveled. At least they pretended to marvel. Lost on Paul, and this was planned, was the second story of the Christian passion happening on a smaller scale and in black and white in the background, purposively overshadowed by the the larger and more colorful and more fully explosive bunny rabbits. Nobody noticed the card actually told two stories at once. Noticing that would come later if at all.
The three pages can be seen here.
Pages for all the pop-up cards are collected here.
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