Photograph Postcards

I love mailing things to people all across the world. But most of the time, it's hard to find something worth sending. Letters can be boring, and most interesting things are just to expensive or hard to mail.

I realized what I wanted to send out. Postcards. Yet, I didn't have any. So I tried to create my own from old scraps of card, but the results weren't to wonderful. So, I dug around until I found something perfect. And it didn't even need any changes made to it.


If you're like me, you love to take pictures. But sometimes, you get carried away with film and take a little to many. Or, you mess up something and the picture is sub-perfect. I've had a huge box filled with unused or unusable pictures that were developed wrong, out of focus, or just not very interesting. But even though they don't make very interesting pictures, they do make very interesting postcards.


Materials/Supply's:

Lots of bad Photographs (Around 4x8 or 10x7 inches)
Paint Markers or something else that's colorful and able to write on pictures
Stamps
Fine tipped markers or pens
A creative mind
Oil/Acrylic Painting Spray Varnish (Very optional, but works as a coating if pens smear on back of picture)

Step 1 Bad Pictures That Are Good For Postcards

Not all bad pictures are good as postcards.

Try to use a pictures that's not to boring, yet not to distracting either. Pictures that were either over or under exposed work well, because they don't distract from the address, yet they still look interesting, and sometimes complement the text.

Don't use anything that's very small or very large either. Make sure you have enough space to write, but not so much space.

Comments

[Phil B]

Back in the 1970s one of the photography magazines published an article about using one's own photos. They used cardstock and iron-on dry mount tissue to attach the photos to the cardstock. Many of those shown were humorous, like a plywood sign for an Air Force Base. The sign had been smashed in a wind storm, but you could plainly read the word "Invincible" on the sign. I sent some with a photo of a traditional stop sign I saw on the property of a horse lover. Instead of STOP it read WHOA.

[seolfor]

Nice 'ible, and a great idea!

Just for your information, standard USPS postcard size is 4 inches by 6 inches. You can send a standard 4x6 print as a postcard, and it is also standard postcard weight. It saves a few cents on postage. I sell some of my prints as postcards in my Etsy shop, and also send out randomly chosen prints as postcards to people who make donations on my website.