Postcrossing Blog

Maybe you want to make your Christmas cards a bit more unique… something that involves your family, something that will make grandma and grandpa smile! Don’t worry, Paper Culture has got you covered!

Paper Culture makes modern Christmas cards, with a unique touch: your photos! They have designers waiting to work with you on every order, to make sure your cards look perfect and stand out.

Have at look at some of their lovely creations:

Don’t these just make you go “awwwww…”? The fonts, the colors, the photos… they’re perfect, especially if you have a kid in the family who is fond of making cute faces for the camera! Who wouldn’t like to receive a card like that? :)

By the way, all cards are made in 100% recycled paper, and if you’re in a rush, they can even mail the cards directly for you! So what are you waiting for? Go to Paper Culture and make your own cute Holiday photo cards! :)

Arja Koskela, 48 y.o. from Virrat, Finland. She was the sender of the card registered as 3 million! She was introduced to the Postcrossing world by her sister and her niece. Now she agrees Postcrossing is a fantastic hobby!

How did you come across Postcrossing? What got you hooked?

First my sister Sirpa and her daughter Elisa read about Postcrossing and of course they felt excited about that. They told me how fantastic hobby Postcrossing is and I belived them…Sirpa is also my twin sister, so we often do same things… :) I agree with Sirpa and Elisa, Postcrossing is a fantastic hobby!!

Do you have any other interesting hobbies?

Oh, the books are near my heart! And handicrats of course!! I have made tiffanyworks and glass-meltingworks nearly ten years. Our family has an old house, so gardening belongs to my life and it’s a great hobby. When I have time, I walk in the near forest!!

Show us your mailbox, your mailman/mailwoman, your postoffice or the place where you post or keep your postcards!

Here is my mailbox near our house…True we have an awful roadside and nowadays it isn’t in a right place! :(

In my hometown there isn’t a postoffice anymore. So our mailbox, where I put my postcards, is near the shopping mall.

I keep by my cards in a folder, so it’s easy to watch them.

Show and tell us about your favorite received postcard to date, and what makes it special

Of course my favorite postcard is the first one… It was something special!! The card was from Oxford, England. I always remember that feeling when I found it in my mailbox.

A small town in Oregon (U.S.A.) is asking for postcards from all over the world. In return, they will send back their recently created postcards about their town. What else could we ask?

Here are the details:

I just wanted to invite all Postcrossers to contribute a postcard to an upcoming event:

Celebrating the Art of the Postcard

Help the Cornelius Post Office celebrate the joy of small works of art and personal communication. Cornelius is a small town in Western Oregon, known for hazelnuts, blueberries and vineyards. Here at the local post office we noticed that for visitors there was no way of sending a local postcard to share the cool things about this unique little town. We’re working on that! Share your postcard with us and get one of the ones we are producing!

Exhibition: Begins January 11, 2010 in the lobby of the Cornelius, OR Post Office.

Make sure to include your return address to receive one of our postcards in return and to be included in the list of participants.

Send your postcards to:

Postmaster
1639 Baseline Street
Cornelius, OR 97113
USA

Follow us at: http://postcardmailart.blogspot.com/

Have you sent yours?

Klemen was the lucky user that registered the Postcrossing postcard no. 3.000.000. He is 22 y.o, lives in Vipava in lovely Slovenia and he collects stamps. Postcards help him learn about other countries and people of different cultures.

How did you come across Postcrossing? What got you hooked?

I collect stamps and my friends, who know that, told me about Postcrossing and so I become a big fan of it. I love receiving cards, learning about other countries and people of other cultures.

Do you have any other interesting hobbies?

Lots of them: collecting stamps, mountaineering, cycling, …

Show us your mailbox, your mailman/mailwoman, your postoffice or the place where you post or keep your postcards!

On the picture is the mailbox in Vipava, where I mostly post my postcards for others.

Show and tell us about your favorite received postcard to date, and what makes it special.

This is my favourite postcard… there is a clear reason why: it’s the 3,000,000th postcard! :D

Letterpress (the magic art of relief printing with a press + movable type) holds a very special place in my heart. I love to stroll my fingers on the paper and feel the reliefs, knowing they were made through the love and hard work of a very patient person.

It turns out there are tons of patient, creative people with antique presses out there, as I found out while surfing Etsy… So many in fact, that it was nearly impossible to resist the temptation of stretching this post to include just another card… :)

So here you go, a post with a selection my favorite holiday cards, from the hands of the letterpressers of the world. Enjoy!

sarahparrott825

Fugufugu press

maidavale

amyb13

paperlovelypress

sweetharvey

brooklynbookbinder

Got any tips to more letterpress goodness? Do share! :)