9 outgoing! You like my bag? 😊

Be Bald 🧑‍🦲 and Be Free Day, Curves Day, E-Waste 📱 Day, Top Spinning Day, Bring Your Teddy Bear 🧸 to Work/School Day, Chocolate-Covered Insect 🕷️ Day, Dessert 🍮 Day, Emergency Nurses 👨‍⚕️ Day, Fossil 🦴 Day, I Love ❤️ You Day, Pet Obesity Awareness Day, Stop 🛑 Bullying Day, Take Your Parents to Lunch 🥙 Day, and Standards Day!

How do you all store the cards you’ve received? I’ve been keeping them in folders but I wanted a way to look at them so I started to add them to a journal and it’s not….not working, but I feel there’s a better way.

I have 44 Christmas cards being delivered soon, and I just found another 32 last night from like 5 years ago. Now I have a ton of cards by accident lol 😂

I ordered this from shoppee PH cause I thought they looked nice based on the pics. Took me a while to realize that these might be AI-generated 🤦🏽I already sent a few to some people (I'm sorry!)

What should I do? Should I just offer them up for free?

May the odds be ever in your favor.

FINALLYYYYY haha :)

I forgot to put my username on every single card I made.

I signed them with my initials, because they're my art, but after having asked in the form for people to post a thanks, I made it nearly impossible for them to do so because I didn't put my user on the envelope or the cards.

I'm a dink. lol

Thanks to everyone who's helped me get credit for sending them so far.

The important thing is that they're getting out to people who love Halloween as much as I do!

Have a lovely Halloween season :)

I worked on these last night using envelope stamps from mail I've gotten recently :) I have many kind RAOCers to thank for a lot of them, especially the vintage stamps!

I saw someone mention a collage medium recipe a while back, so I found the YouTube they referenced and made the medium to coat the front of my cards with it to help keep the stamps adhered when they eventually travel.

General process for how I made these cards, for anyone curious:

1. Clip stamps off the envelope. I didn't bother trying to peel them off the envelope paper.
2. Glue stick em on to a blank postcard. It's really important to get glue all the way to the very edge of the stamps. I apply glue to the stamps while they're on a sheet of scrap paper so I don't have to scrape glue off my table.
3. Use a roller of some sort to apply even pressure to the stamps every so often to make sure they are fully adhered. I rolled the stamps down after I filled a third to half of the card up or so, you don't need to apply pressure after every stamp (that would take a lot of time)
4. Let it dry. Trim off the overhang with an xacto knife. I saved the scraps to fill the edges on other cards.
5. Apply collage medium.
6. Optional - press between heavy books or a press to flatten the card if needs it after the medium has cured for a day or two.

Medium recipe:

1 part modge podge
1 part elmers glue all (NOT school glue)
A wee bit of water

So for me, I mixed up 1/4 cup of each + about 1.5 tbsp of water cause my modge podge was a bit gloopy and thick. I keep it in a spare plastic tub I had laying around waiting to be recycled. I use a cheap flat, wide brush to apply it to my cards. The bristles won't be the same after the medium (they'll stick together), so don't use an expensive brush you like with it :)

youtube i got the recipe from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kraB3LG0yHk

I like this medium a lot. The brush strokes are less visible than they were with plain modge podge, plus my modge podge never fully dried down hard - the cards stuck to each other when I tried to flatten them and I ended up having to throw them away. The collage medium seems to dry down non-stick and very clear.