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The Pop-up Storybook: a proposal invitation template
A watercolour pop-up picture book called "The Baby Who Needed a Godparent", with their role in the title. Pull the tab and the last page stands up with them as the hero.
The design
The invitation is a picture book, painted in watercolour and printed for one reader. Its title is the question: The Baby Who Needed a Godmother (or Godfather, or Godparent: the word you chose for this person). It opens at the pop-up spread. The night sky is painted on the back page, the cradle and the hills lie folded flat on the front one, and a paper tab sticks out of the edge marked Pull. They pull it and the paper engineering does the rest: the hills rise, the cradle stands, and the hero unfolds last, under an umbrella, with their name on a pennant. The book carries on in its own grammar: a dedication page with your note for them, chapter one (your letter), lift-the-flap pages for why it had to be them, the contents page of the chapters still to be written, a colophon with the day and the place, three tipped-in plates, and a page about endings that makes no as easy to say as yes. The last page lets them choose the ending: yes and no are two equal pages, and either one pops up its own The End.
Colours and type
The Pop-up Storybook comes in 3 colourways: Cornflower dawn & apricot, Sap green & rose madder and Lullaby indigo & gold, with 2 type pairings: Picture book and Fable & pencil. The colours and type change in the editor at any time; the layout stays its own.
Who it suits
Made for godparent, in the Interactive style.
What is included
An invitation website with a page made for the one person you are asking, with your own note on why them and a reply they send with one tap. You write your own words and add your photos in the live editor, send every guest a personal link by email or any messaging app, and follow the replies as they come in. Free for up to 10 people, with the full design.
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- The Corsage Box: A wrist corsage on satin in a clear florist's box, their name on the lid. Lift the lid and the ribbon tag slides out with the question and the occasion.
- Two Across: The weekend crossword, set by you for one solver. The starred clue is your question; the shaded answers are their name and the word date, and tapping them pens them in.
- Side B, Track Six: A mixtape made by hand. They open the clear case, the J-card folds out in marker and biro, and the last track on side B, ringed twice, is your question.
- Admit Two: A pair of cinema tickets, seats side by side. They tear off the stub to keep, turn it over, and the question is printed on the back.
- Par Avion: A paper plane folded from airmail paper waits on the desk with their name on the wing. One tap throws it: it loops the room, lands, and unfolds into the question.
- Four Flashes: A photo booth on a fairground at night. They press the button: the strip feeds out of the slot, the booth flashes four times, and the fourth frame is you holding up a card with the question.
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