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I'm soon to be presenting a ring to my girlfriend. Now now, hold back on your congratulatory posts, it's just a birthday present. Nevertheless, I thought it would be nice to present it to her as part of an effect. So, any suggestions of any (possibly romantic) ring production effects that I could use?

Cheers...

Flash paper! Just give her a piece of flash paper with "Happy Birthday" written on it. When she looks all disappointed/confused, you say "oh sorry I forgot!", her:"What!? How could you forget!?" (gets angry), you:"yeah I forgot to light the paper!" you go ahead and light it producing the ring form the flames!

What do you think? I think it's pretty good

Now that idea i like Seriously that is a cheap and easy way to do it. Will look good and the flash looks very magicial. You could stand the paper up, twist the end so it looks like a candle

Yea, I think that would be pretty smooth. And it's a good job you turned up stephenmagic coz I've been looking for somewhere to get flash paper for ages! Thanks guys...

For this effect, it is cheaper to use pads. The sheets are perfect for this effect. By the way everyone calls me Stephen, stephenmagic sounds so formal

Two small points about a flash production: ring damage from sudden heat (I've had this happen, tarnishing) and the other factor is dropping the ring!

I've just come up with some workable alternative routines which look really nice...

Effect one
Ask speccy to select and sign a card. Card is returned to deck.

After a few magic riffles etc, you find the card—the Ace of Hearts. Explain the Ace of Hearts is the Tarot equivalent of 'love everlasting'. As you pull the card out of the deck, it is noticed that in the CENTRE OF THE SIGNED CARD actually linked-in to the heart pip is a ring. Pass the card, with ring, to your beloved, as a sweet and memorable presentation.

Effect two
You ask your speccy, the beloved woman of your dreams, to write you a secret 'love thought' on a piece of paper, and seal it in a small envelope.

You describe how thoughts are sometimes so strong and so powerful that they can manifest as physical elements, with substance.

You take out 5 cards each with symbols on them, a circle, square, star, wavy lines and triangle—and deal them face-down to the table. You ask your 'beloved' to touch a card, and pull it towards them.

You take the remaining cards away, and explain that you will now 'see how spiritually attached' you both are, as you attempt to unscramble the 'thought' that has been in the envelope which has been in plain view the whole time.

You tell the spectator that the card they have chosen has a significance to the love message, and subconsciously they chose it to give you a clue.

As they turn the card, they see it is the circle. You then tell them, pretty much word for word, what they wrote on the note inside the envelope.

"All that from just seeing I chose a circle?" she asks.

"No, the circle has a different meaning. It is symbolic of an everlasting line, a perpetual love. This is the unbroken line symbol which is where the symbolism of a 'wedding ring' or 'freindship ring' comes from".

You ask her to open her envelope... inside is a playing card—with a circle symbol on it, and no piece of paper. In the centre of the circle is a ring.

Yea I did worry about the possiblilty of damaging the ring. That would ruin my day, maybe I could get around it. But I do like Effect Two. A lot. All good ideas, luckily I have a few days to get somthing down. Keep them coming. Thanks seige I appreciate it...

maybe find a way of wrapping it in something to stop the problem.

A small decorated bag? (No, not the Bride's vertically challenged Auntie, one of those nice little cloth bags for jewellery!)

take a shoe lace from your pocket and tie it into a loop to represent the circle of life, get a piece of flash paper and right side by side on it your names.
fold in half and hang on string, light and ring apears, no problem with ring burn and a nice storry too boot.

I'm sure your familiar with the ring jumping on rope sleight if not let me know.

magicdiscoman wrote:... no problem with ring burn ...

In total contrast to eating Mexican food and drinking lager concurrently...

very good Seige

Thanks everyone. You've given me a lot of food for thought. I'll let you know how it goes...!

Or how about one of those little boxes that the rings come in? That looks nicer than just giving her a ring without packaging and it protects it to boot!

Kati

P.S. ring box