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03-22-2010, 12:39 AM #1
3x5 index card HELP!
I was looking through another thread where Rockiesfan33 actually made custom cut cards from a few of his index cards.I just wanted to know what other members here are doing with their index card autographs? I have hundreds of these myself and they never do anything but sit in a box. I do like to read the ones that have answers to questions that I have asked from time to time, but the ones with just a signature on the blank side I never even look at. Anyone have a good idea for dispay or something creative that they do with theirs? It is not like I do not have some nice sigs on index cards, but what do you do with yours?
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03-22-2010, 01:34 AM #2
great question! hopefully someone that has some gumption knows what to do with all those!!!
Maybe we can make them TTM used cards and sell tem on ebay???
Pete
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03-22-2010, 12:32 PM #3
I bought a matte cutter and would put a big team photo or team Logo in the center of a poster size matte board. Then I would put the index cards all around that in a uniform way. It's actually pretty easy to matte yourself with the tool. Unfortunately my house was destroyed in a fire about 5 years back so I can't post pictures. I am hoping to make one in the next week or so, if I do I'll post pics.
Another much easier idea is the large poster size frames from target, WalMart, etc. that come with a matte style sheet of different size cutouts; it's perfect to place index cards in.
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03-22-2010, 01:54 PM #4
This is the route I plan on taking with my index cards. Though I've gotten sidetracked with HOF Postcards and ebay my index card goal is to get a nice pic of the HOF and make a framed piece with my HOF index cards underneath the picture.
As for individual cards I plan on making framed pieces with a classy(preferably black and white) 8x10. Lee MacPhail, Bobby Thomson, and Bobby Doerr are guys I have in mind with this. Maybe Joe Morgan since I only have one of them and it's personalized.
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03-22-2010, 02:07 PM #5
I lie to display my envelopes with the post mark on it with some of my autos especially ones that I got either during a significant season such as a super bowl or something...it adds a little bit of flavor to some of the plain autos I have.
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03-22-2010, 02:28 PM #6
Glad to hear someone else does this. I thought I was the only one that kept all the "post marked" envelopes from my TTM's. I figured that keeping the envelopes was a good way to legitimize my graphs since they have the state/town & date...
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03-22-2010, 03:49 PM #7
Heres an example of what i do http://www.gabriels-autographs.fotopic.net/p63846163.html
(^ misread the question, I thought you meant how he customize them)
Anyways I put these all in a separate binder.Last edited by Polishgooner; 03-22-2010 at 05:04 PM.
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03-22-2010, 05:01 PM #8
I cut off the front of my envelopes and on the back write down the name and dates of my successes so I have something to point to as to how I obtained this or that.
I never thought to use them in a display piece though...I like that idea.
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03-22-2010, 05:29 PM #9
Yeah my dad is a mailman and I got the idea from these special edition prints that the PO sells with postmarks from the city a special event or moment happens in.
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03-24-2010, 09:14 PM #10
Thanks for some really creative thoughts and for sharing all that information with us. I like the idea of possibly doing the matted photo thing and maybe finding a theme. The only index card that is actually on my wall is from Kathy Ireland and that is framed with a photo of the two of us at an event in Vegas a few years ago. They sit side by side in the matte I had framed. It looks OK, but I really did want some new ideas of what to do with these.
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