Whatchya Workin' On, O Creatives?

Island? That there is a sub-continent!

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@KeybillyJefe, just got your post card and laughed out loud. I want an 11x14 of that to put on my wall!

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iā€™m asking folks to share the front image as they wish. no attribution necessary, copy, print, share.
the message is clear and should be shared widely.
:pirate_flag:

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my aunt, a lovely, very liberal musician/dancer in Dallas (whom i adore!), just texted me to say she had received this card.
it was a row of fire emojis mixed with pirate flag emojis and a ā€œpower fistā€.
she knows!
edit: yeah, she know, unlike her republican brotherā€¦ oops! thatā€™d be my fatherā€¦ :astonished:

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I received mine today! I love it (and so does my husband). Thank you, KeybillyJefe!!

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i hope we are talking about the same one. i sent out two in quick succession.
No Spoilers!
i (we?) are not talking about fish.

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I received mine yesterday. I put it in a plastic sleeve and taped the sleeve to the inside of my front doorā€™s glass storm door. :pirate_flag:

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Not fish.

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Not fish. I do like the ā€œtaped to the doorā€ idea!

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We just got ours too! Lovely texture to the ink and the image?
I couldnā€™t find a pirate chef giving a kiss. So imagine this guy giving a chef kiss

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I stuck mine up in the window nearest the front door tophat-biggrin

Thanks!!!

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Pirate Tea flag

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@KeybillyJefe I got the last postcard. Pretty great

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so pleased that so many enjoyed this one!

large areas of solid color like that are challenging in letterpress. i am using woodcut plates - actual wood, sometimes linoleum mounted to wood. this would not be possible without the ink rollers (brayers) from Takach Press. i use their 2.25 inch diameter, soft durometer rollers in 6 inch and 8 inch width. this gives me a 7 inch application path of ink, without image ghosting. i love those rollers!
the Legion Paper Bamboo 525gsm stock takes that ink like a sponge and looks really good.
i did use the laser engraver to ā€œburnā€ (cut) the image, but even that is no simple thing. iā€™m just happy folks like my efforts at this ā€œmail artā€.
pay close attention to the stamps - both my own and the USPS postage. images, placement and orientation are all part of the message.
especially this one. did yā€™all catch the USPS stamp and how it was used? i have never used that stamp on any other card, and it is purposely positioned just so.

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I did now. :upside_down_face: :wink:

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stamps are a long thread through my upbringing - collecting postage stamps from around the world with my brother as kids, having ā€œpen palsā€ in far-off places like Australia, Cambodia, Greece, Spainā€¦ and more! we loved to get those letters back with little vignettes of exotic scenery, animals and people of the world.

in my letterpress apprenticeship i met and did work for a gentleman who clued me into a new-to-me thing of producing ā€œCinderella Stampsā€, non-postage stamps that reflect anything the artist wished. all those places, people and exotic creatures could be my own! and i was hooked!

Cinderella stamps led to mail art and there it is.

i like to think of the simple post card as a stage where each little act plays out with the main image as the performance, the descritive blurb as libretto, and my stamp creates a ā€œsupratitleā€, if you will. the required USPS postage is left to be the review in a way.

of course, the recipient is left to make sense of it all.

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I didnā€™t, but my spouse noticed and pointed it out. Very clever and subtle. He and I both really enjoyed this one.
I love the texture when the paper and ink is combined. There is a depth to it. At least the one I received. Iā€™m big on textures.

Definitely noticed the Cinderella stamps before. Though I didnā€™t know the name, thatā€™s neat :blush:

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Finally got mine today! thanks

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