Science guy quote

Postcard made by jenniloveshockey on Postcrossing.com. I really like the use of stamps, and it's such a great quote.

To the moon and back

DK-50699 I made this card from a Hans Scherfig painting and an illustration of the Apollo 11 mission. For a postcrosser who likes tapirs

#340 - Cinema

These cards are from my first round robin (RR) on the Prostcrossing forums. I wanted an excuse to make more cards so I joined this Handmade RR thread. RRs work like this: You join a small group agreeing on a theme, and then you send postcards with that theme to all other members in the group. The Handmade RR groups are usually 4 people, so you send 3 cards and receive 3 cards.

Sent cards

for jacqcoen(Arizona, US):

Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction. staring out of my homemade movie theater. I was going for sort of an old school cinema feel with the red and gold.

for Mosshumla(Sweden):

Charlie Chaplin (in The Gold Rush) and a real life filmstrip from the trailer of an Austrian movie called "Hotel". If you hold the card up to the light, one of the frames in the filmstrip can be seen clearly.

for VickiKamalova(Russia):

An illustrated movie poster of Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen. I didn't do that much on this one, just framed it in film strip (colored black to look more like film strip, the real color on the edges is an ugly see-through brownish color). Those white lines going around are the soundtracks :D

Received cards

from jacqcoen(Arizona, US):

Picture is not so good because of reflections in the lamination. But great card based on her latest trip to the movies with her kids :D I also loved the stamps

from VickiKamalova(Russia):

Audrey Hepburn with a very colorful and fun background. I really like the technique Vicki has used to make this, And it made it through the post with no damage at all. (I put all my cards in envelopes because I was scared they'd fall apart)

 from Mosshumla(Sweden):

I love this card! it's inspired by the 1958 movie version of The Fly. The spider is beautiful, I love how its legs are hugging the back of the card. The web is made of thread (must have been difficult to glue on!) and that little face on the fly is both scary and hilarious. The stamps are really nice too.

I put this card on the wall in my office. I work with spiders, and I think this will be the start of a little exhibition of spider related postcards.

Postcrossing Stamp Swap

This was my fist stamp swap on the postcrossing forums, and I'm really glad I did it. Finding that beautiful envelope with the Japanese stamps in my mailbox was just such a nice experience.

50 used Danish stamps for Yuki - ca. 1996-2013

+ homemade card from Danish and Swedish definitives

50 used German stamps from Yuki

+ beautiful envelope and card