Have lotsa prints? Make cards!

[SolaresLarrave]

Right when I got into a kind of low point or lull... I realized that I can use my scanned slides and prints to make cards. So I ordered some cards from (click on the name) The Photographer's Edge and sat down to work.

Initially, I wanted to have a small stack of cards to send to friends for birthdays, thank-you notes and other things, but my wife suggested that I visit the local art gallery and offer them on consignment (a local photographer is selling cards of leaves in water streams and beautiful bucks in two stores in town). I may do that... but, in any case, revisiting old shots and prints with their card-value in mind has been a nice, invigorating experience.

You should try it too... Besides, winter's a-coming! 🙂 Those long, dark months are good for this kind of housekeeping chores.

Just thought you'd like to know...

Have a nice weekend! 😉

 

[Roman]

Yeah, I used to do this, too (darkroom-printed cards, though) - eg. I turned an infrared picture of some ivy winding up a grave-stone into invitation cards for my 30th birthday-party... 😀

Roman

 

[Goodyear]

I've been considering this myself, although without the fancy window.

 

[afaceinthecrowd]

Seems to be a popular thing to do ... my GF has dragged out all of my prints and has ordered card stock/envelopes/cello bags 😀 I don't have to do anything other than take photos ... pretty good gig 😉

dan

 

[back alley]

i just ordered the catalouge, could be fun.

joe

 

[hoot]

That's a very nice idea, Francisco. I think I'm going to try cutting my own cards with an x-acto ("stanley") knife.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Cool; thanks for the tip, Francisco.

 

[dlofgreen]

If you want to make your own products with your photos check out this site http://www.psprint.com . I have used it for a few things and they are great. Calanders, cards and just about anything you want they do. Short runs too. If I have a client that I handle the printing for, this place will drop ship the item to my client with my return address so it looks like my company did the printing, pretty cool.

 

[Kin Lau]

We make our own cards. My wife just gets card stock from the dollar store, cuts it down to size and we glue the picture on.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Good to see I'm not alone! I just thought about sharing my adventures at image editing...

Way in the past I used to make my own cards too... with crayons, temperas and watercolors. They were kinda heavy and took days to be finished but it was fun. With this cards... I just fixed six this morning! 🙂

Oh, dlofgreen, thanks for the website!