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Originally Posted by AKDaffyodil
Originally Posted by ckcowl
a few years ago-(like 6 or7) a 'seasons' post card swap- meaning 4 swaps- 3 months apart- depicting the season of that quarter--
i have a great assortment of fabric postcards from all over the country (and Canada) they all came to me through the mail- with postmarks- they are great! there is a (trading card) group- who make them trading card size (like the art cards) and send those and trade them too Did they come through the mail ok? I would be afraid they would get messed up. |
If anyone lives in So Cal, our Guild is having a class on making fabric postcards at our meeting in Jan. in Placentia. PM me if you are interested. I'm looking foreward to it.
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I would like to know more about the making of these post cards. I think swapping (mailing) them would be fun to see.
If it was 6-7 seasons ago, has the UPS changed any of their standards for mailing them? I can be wrong, but I thought to save money recently (2010 maybe), they removed some of the places that did hand processing/stamping. Still this would be fun, I think. maybe I could use my stash up some. :) |
I have never done postcards. What size are they? Regular postcard size4x6. Please explain a little more.
I would be interested I think. |
The ones I have seen are regular sized postcards and there was an article in one of the recent quilt magazines about postcards and trading cards. It may have been in American Quilter magazine. They use card stock and stitch through the fabric and mail them. I think some are sewn through the card stock and some may be glued on and stitched around the outside edge. The trading cards are smaller and people collect them.
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When I made mine we used many a layers. Of course the design, as fancy as desired to showcase your artistic talents, then batting plus a layer of a thick stiff pellon I think it's call something like "timtuck") and muslin with the postcard logo printed on it. Usually we did a satin stitch around the edges. Those with beads were hand canceled and put inside a cellophane sleeve, but they were mailed for regular postcard postage.
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I sure hope this one gets started, I've talked to some friends about it, they too think it sounds great, wondered if there was a "theme" or if it was left up to each of us "artists" :? :lol: Nice to be thought of that way....
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I still have the first postcard I made and sent to my sister in the 1990s. She thought I might like to have it back!
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Im working with patrice on a fabric postcard swap draft. Hope to get it going soon.
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Originally Posted by abdconsultant
Im working with patrice on a fabric postcard swap draft. Hope to get it going soon.
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