Echo Park - Winter Wonderland Card Class

Cards from the January card class I taught at the Scrapbook Zone

                                           

Supplies used:

6 cards/envelopes and 1 tag

Echo Park 6 X 6 Winterland Pad
Echo Park Winterland Sticker Sheet
Elizabeth Craft Designs Snowflake Doily2052
Marianne Designs Polar Bears CR1601
Marianne Designs Sled CR 1257
Marianne Designs Scarf & Mittens LR0686
Lisa Horton Emboss Folder SnowflakesLHCEF027
StudioLight Winter Sweater SL-SS-Mask225
Dress My Craft Winter Trees DMCD4367
Buttons Galore Sparkletz ICE
Cosmic Shimmer Glitterbitz
Nuvo Crystal Drops Wedgewood
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink Weathered Wood
Cosmic Shimmer Gilded Touch Silver Note
Cosmic Shimmer Fluffy Stuff
Hero Arts Blue & Shimmer
Dina Wakley Gloss Spray White
Cardstock: Craft Tan, Black, white and light gray.
TCW Stormy Stencil Butter
Silver wide tip pen
Quick dry glue
Glue Dots/double-sided tape
Sticky Dots or Sticky Specs/Dimensional foam
Fibers

Winter Woods Card Class

 Simple Stories Winter Woods card class at the Scrapbook Zone January 28th. 

Snowed In Class Cards

Cards from my class on December 17th, the last class of 2022, using Echo Park "Snowed In" paper. 

 

Winter Lady Postcard!

 Since we are expecting snow I thought this postcard would be appropriate.

Since the sender could not put a note on the back they wrote their message around the edges of the card.  I am not able to research the publisher of the card as it has no markings. I am assuming it was printed in Germany since many of the early postcards were printed there and it says Postkarte (German for postcard) on the back. 

 

 

 

This was mailed from Berlin W to North America before 1907 when the post office changed postcards to a divided back.  I love the beautiful cursive writing.

 

 

The following is a bit of history on Postcards found on the Metro Postcard site: 

"1902 Rural free delivery becomes a standard service throughout the United States. Up until this point those living in rural areas had to travel to large towns to pick up their mail or pay a private company to deliver it for an additional fee. This policy greatly increased the market for postcards.

The world’s first divided back postcard is issued in Great Britain, who is soon followed by France and Germany. This led to a sharp increase in card sales overseas.

 

1907 To keep in step with Europe, the United States released new postal regulations on March 3, 1907 that divided the back of postcards in half, the left side for a message, the right for postage and address. This date is often referred to as the birth of the modern postcard for it created the same format we use today. The most obvious affect of this new measure is that it allowed an image to take up the entire front of a card.

 

The sale of postcards becomes a craze as they are sold in record amounts. Perhaps up to half their number are being purchased by collectors, and many clubs are formed for the sole purpose of exchanging cards. Many different types of businesses also begin publishing cards to cash in on this phenomena, which result in a wide variety of results from many different printing techniques. This marks the height of what is often referred to as the Golden Age of Postcards."

 

 

I am sharing this postcard with Postcard Friendship Friday!

Note - postcards are from my private collection