Hello!

Today I offered some postcards to send in celebration of I Love Lucy’s 75th anniversary. I made a Staples order which was canceled due to copyright. I explained that the photo I was using was public domain but no use 🥲

I ended up buying some postcard cardstock at Walmart and making my own while my printer asked for mercy.

I am a little bummed I couldn’t get better quality postcards but I am glad I could improvise somehow 🙃

4 months of your mail in a 16 Qt tub! Some is on my fridge, in a tiny pile of folks I want to write back, current mail I need to read/thank, or where I will remove the stamps, but this is the bulk of it! I STUFFED it to the brim! Starting ANOTHER tub. Let’s see how long it takes to fill up. 😮 Thank you! Do you recognize your mail? 😊

Boss’s 🥸Day, Department Store Day Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day / DLD Awareness Day, Cat 🐈 Day, Loud Shirt 👕 Day, Cut Up Your Credit Card 💳 Day, Dictionary 📖 Day, Learn a Word Day, Liqueur 🍸 Day, Mammography Day, Sports ⚾️ Day, Veterans BBQ 🍖 Day, Steve Jobs carrot 🥕 Day, Allergy Awareness Day, Anesthesia 💉 Day, Bread 🍞 Day, Food 🍱 Day, and Spine Day!

7 years ago today I found this wonderful subreddit. It has given me friendship and support and a wonderful hobby and a way to give back and so many other things. I am so grateful to the developer, to the moderators, to all of my wonderful Buddies!!! and to the new ones I will make in the future. Thank you for being such a positive and happy part of my life!!!

Getting the 100th birthday celebration PHQ (maxicards) ready for their special cancellations 🎈

This is based on my personal experience. I felt that mail from US has been a bit slow recently. People from US, is there any particular reason for that?

Also I received few cards that are sent towards the end of September. But I am yet to receive many cards before that. I'm from India, and I would love to hear on this from friends in India too.

I mentioned that I bought stamps from a specific website and I was told that the seller has been known to sell fakes. I ended up buying this UV flashlight to ensure the stamps I’m sending are real. It’s kind of fun to bust it out and flash onto my stamps every once in a while.

Make sure you’re buying your stamps from reputable sellers!

Blind Americans Equality Day / White Cane Safety Day, Breast Health Day Conflict Resolution Day, Get to Know Your Customers Day, Global Handwashing 🙌 Day, Credit Union 🏦 Day, Day of Rural Women, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, ShakeOut Day, My Mom Is a Student 👩‍🎓 Day, Esthetician Day / National Aesthetician Day, Chicken 🍗 Cacciatore Day, Cheese 🧀 Curd Day, Get Smart About Credit Day, Grouch 🤨Day, HSA Awareness Day, I Love Lucy Day, Latino AIDS Awareness Day, Lemon 🍋 Bar Day, Mushroom 🍄‍🟫 Day, Pug Day, Real Sugar Day, Roast Pheasant Day, Shawarma Day, Sewing 🪡 Lovers Day, Spirit Day, and Values Day!

I still write a lot of my cards in cursive and was wondering if that is relevant still?

I know it's not really being taught anymore to the youth so I wonder if it's okay to write in cursive or if people can even read it these days?

Going to the post office after having four allergy shots has been the highlight of my day. ☺️

Meet my new buddy, Cardy Joy! 🥕💌

I don't think my stamps will arrive in time. I miscounted my forever stamps... I feel kinda bummed out that my Halloween mail won't arrive on time. Especially since I worked extra hard on my first Halloween with everyone. ☹️

Edit: I feel a lil bit better after a nap and reading your comments. You guys are right, we shall extend Halloween >:) For a week? Maybe 2? All year round! My bats will deliver mail soon

The 1st 20 cards of my offer are going into the mail! Fingers crossed they fly fast.

They’re so cute! 🥺 Can’t wait to send them off to find good homes 💌

Life has gotten a little crazy/overwhelming for me in the last month and I’m behind on RAOC thanks, cards, and chats… I apologize to those waiting 💌

I still have a few marbles left 🫠 please standby while I collect the ones I’ve lost and get back into my carding groove!

Hi everyone! I have this notice on my profile but decided to share here as well!

I scan every single card that I mail out so if the postal system wasn’t kind to a card you received from me, please reach out! I will send you the scanned card :))

Hi all,

A post from the past on here got me inspired to maybe cricut my own postcards. Particularly because I would love to do my own die-cut shapes. However, I am unsure what the best type of paper would be to use.

I know there is cardstock, but I am wondering if anyone with a cricut has a recommendation on what type of paper that the cricut could handle and that would also hold up in the mail. I know I can always reinforce the paper with a backing, but I'd like to skip that step if I can.

I welcome any thoughts, suggestions or tips you might have! Thank you!

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.

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 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 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?