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Anything your audience carries away from your show that reminds them of you is a good thing (except for maybe bruises). Consider making some stamps of your likeness that you can stick on playing cards, business cards or even currency.
You can either buy actual stamps using an online company that’ll put your photo on one, or use a photo editing program and a printer to make your own that you can print on to sticky back sheets.
There are several ways you can use these stamps. Here are a few suggestions:
1. Use the stamp as a phase in an ambitious card routine.
2. Stick the stamp to a bill after you perform a money trick.
3. Use the stamp as a “moving” stamp trick.
4. Have a spectator mark a selected card with your stamp.
5. Place it on their forehead. Seriously. Do it in the coin on forehead stunt.
6. Put the stamp on an envelope a chosen card ends up in.
7. Put your stamp on a “wrong” card that turns out to be the correct card.
These are just a few ideas. Use the comments to suggest your own!
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You could use the stamps in a more subtle way by printing generic stamps or replicas of actual stamps that have small little differences, such as a picture of a flower that has a different number of pedals on each stamp. In this way you can easily identify which envelope contains your money, or any number of other effects that utilize the marked envelope principle.
You could also use it as a revelation of a card, have a picture of you holding a card, say the ace of spades, then have them choose a card, the ace is now their seven of hearts and you leave them with the envelope and real stamp…perhaps with a buisness card on the inside of it, and their signed card…anything really.
Use that effect for the last effect you show a client you’ve just worked for and have a feedback post-card with your real stamp on it. But they might want to keep it as a souvenir and you don’t get the feedback….so be sure to put a link to your website on it as well for the all important testimonial you’ll get from them.
Hope you like those, I just found this blog, and for that matter, just discovered your material Andrew. Thanks for sharing your ideas with fellow magicians, you’re really helping the art.
Joe Coover
Norman, Oklahoma