By: Brad Kartel
Submitted: 2011-07-10 20:26:06 | Word Count: 590
Aside from those personalized or hand-crafted ones sent by family and friends, many postcards are really about nature. Many companies are into the postcard printing of these natural rock formations, sand dunes, marine ecosystems, tundras, or forests, as these make great travel postcards to send to loved ones back home.
If you have several biomes as topics of your postcard printing, why not make a biome postcard booklet?
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A biome literally means a vast geographical area that is distinct because of its unique climate, surroundings, and the living things that dwell there. Maybe you have friends from Africa and you always get cards about the different wildlife there. Or you could have a relative working in an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia and most of his mailers are either of camels, oases, or sand dunes. You could already have an extensive collection on your hands and thus you can already make your biome booklets.
1. Classify your postcards based on the biome that they are part of. You can have a book for a particular biome or you could have one big book and then divide the pages in order to delegate one part to a particular biome. Determine what biome you will place first.
2. Arrange the cards of a particular biome on a sheet of craft paper. Normally, you can fit four postcards to a sheet. But if you want to make a smaller booklet, you can maybe fit only two. Mark the positions of the cards on the sheet using a pencil. Leave space for the margin where you will put the binding. Set the cards aside.
3. Draw a smaller rectangle in the middle of the postcard marks that you made with the pencil. Use a ruler to make sure that your lines are straight and your dimensions are correct. The second rectangle should be smaller by ½ inch on each side. Draw all the rectangles for the other postcard marks. After completing this, erase the outer marks that you made.
4. Using a craft knife carefully cut out the rectangle shapes that you drew. Always use your ruler to make sure that all lines and cuts are straight.
5. Center the postcard over the appropriate hold that you made on the craft paper and apply an adhesive onto the corners. Repeat the process for all the mailers that you have for each biome.
6. After you have completed your craft sheets, slip them into the transparent pages of a photo album or clear book. When the pages of the book are flipped, both sides of the postcard can be seen. Usually the back portion of the card is neglected but it is usually where the description of the photo or photos on the front is located.
This classification project of your postcards is not limited by biomes. You can use this for other divisions that you want, like per country, per event, per national flower, and the like. There is no limit to making these booklets. A biome booklet would interest those who would rather collect postcards are the natural sceneries around the world. You can even make a separate booklet for those products of homemade postcard printing that were sent to you by well-meaning family and friends. That way when they visit you, you can show them how well you preserved the postcards that they sent you.
Author Resource:-
Brad Kartel is a marketing executive whose passion is helping business owners build their campaign through postcard printing. Learn how to create postcards.
