Recaption This - Marie or Anyone

This morning I read Marie's Beef-a-roni post and the Little Red Mailbox blog about altered postcards. I decided to look through my stash of duplicate postcards and see what I had that might be altered.

This postcard is a © MCMLXXXIII American Greetings Corp. I have a bunch of this postcard because it was sold in a pad of twelve postcards, and there is plenty of space to add stuff. Somehow, it made me think of Marie flying to the U. S., and this is the result. Originally, I was going to hand letter it, but I ended up just altering it digitally with Photoshop.

The character on this postcard is Strawberry Shortcake. Strawberry Shortcake and her cat Custard were originally designed in 1977 for American Greetings. In the 1980s, Strawberry Shortcake was a big fad in the United States.

I am including the unaltered postcard so you can play with it. If you feel like making your own altered postcard from this and sharing it, please put it on your blog and post a comment with your link.

History of Strawberry Shortcake on Wikipedia.

A Happy New Year Postcard 1908 & 2008

Year date postcards were most common during the years 1908-1910. This 1908 year date New Year postcard was published by the Rotograph Co., N. Y. City. It is a "Real Photograph on bromide paper."

The sender of this card apologized for this "postal" being "not very pretty" and not getting around to sending the card in time for New Year (it was postmarked Feb. 6). She also wrote: "This card is a mix up." I'm not sure what she meant by that. Possibly this refers to the fact that the back is printed upside down relative to the front.


I had some fun playing with this postcard in Photoshop. By isolating the last two digits of 1908 and making a duotone, I was able to create a new postcard design suitable for 2008: