Have a tough time figuring out which rookie card you like the best? Look no further! I present to you... Utilizing the Topps design, Fleer action shot and Donruss portrait :) Available for sale ... NOWHERE. Just a fun gag project :)
Not sports or sports card related, but I thought I'd share some post-mortem april fools goodness with you all. I have a lot of traumatizing experiences with April Fool's past. Like when my parents gave me a bowl of chocolate ice cream before going to bed - only to find out they were refried beans. I *hate* refried beans. No, they did not give me a real bowl of chocolate ice cream, either. Or how about the time when I was in 7th grade. I went to bed dreading school the next day (I *HATED* school - 7th grade was the worst
In my last article, I had a bunch of people asking "How did you do that?" If you are one of those people, then this is for you. Why do this? Sharing our collection with others on the web has become as big a part of collecting as the actual collecting. The last thing we want is to show off our favorite cards, and have them look lackluster. Scanning, pictures, etc. can all yield different results. I always spend a good amount of time figuring out how to get the perfect light (ESPECIALLY when it comes to refractive cards). Take
I have had the pleasure of being a guest blogger for Topps, and you can see my moustachioed face at www.Topps.com - hurry though, because they will probably take it down soon! (Fun fact: All of the visible cards you see were actually photoshopped in the picture, including the hand print card on the wall. When this picture was taken, I didn't yet own most of the cards shown!) Here is a direct link to the article: https://www.topps.com/blog/jose-canseco-topps-collector/ Here are some fun graphics from the article! Nearly 100 DIFFERENT Archives Signature Series Canseco cards .... I actually have two more than what is pictures
Ladies and Gentlemen, I've made it. Yours truly has been enshrined into the emoticon hall of fame at the largest sports card collecting community, Blowout Cards! I ... errrr ... my twin ... is now the "Editor in Chief". I'm not saying that BOuschi and myself are one in the same; I'm just saying that no one has ever seen us in the same room together before. ;) In addition to this, if you wanted to type in :bouschi: when making a thread at BO, the mug you see above shows up. In other news, I've picked up some 10x14
This past month was CRAZY busy, and it doesn't look like it is going to let up anytime soon! Youth group get togethers at our house, my son's 14th birthday party sleepover (re-scheduled due to him being sick) a father-son retreat (cancelled due to lack of sign-ups), Halloween, World Series, meetings, my son getting baptized, paintball party, a marriage conference and our 15th anniversary, there doesn't look to be much downtime in the near future. In doing some of these things, I figured why not do custom relic cards? Imagine all of the custom relic cards we could all have
"Excuse me sir, what are you doing?" I was caught red-handed. A well dressed young man of about 20 years was looking over my shoulder as I was admiring my collection of baseball cards from my website on my phone while waiting for my cinnamon crunch bagel at Panera. Yeah, I'm REAL cool. All kinds of people at the restaurant on their phones doing millennial things - texting, facebooking, tweeting. And me? I'm looking at pictures of my baseball cards. Slowing going through my favorite patch cards, then swiping feverishly through a large rainbow to get a fun effect of
Just when you thought you couldn't get enough buyback cards... Introducing: The buyback-buyback! If you are like most collectors, 10 different buybacks of the same junk wax card in the span of 7 months simply isn't enough! Here is the rundown: Take a beautiful base card: Have it signed, then stamp, serial number and encase it ... Then take that signed/stamped/numbered/cased card and have it signed/stamped/numbered ON the case ... and put it in another case! These ON CASE signed/stamped/numbered cards are guaranteed to be a hit with collectors and investors alike. (Note: the sticker is in an entirely different
It was a hard, close back and forth battle between the Mick & the Pick. Both got some good shots in, and in my opinion, this could have easily gone either way, depending upon which forum this was placed on. FCB is truly a different beast when compared to other forums, which is why I love it here and frequent it so much. Armed with the knowledge of what people like over others, I myself would have probably entered completely different customs myself. It is truly great seeing such amazing talent on display by other custom card creators! As they
A few months back, I stumbled upon a thread on FCB (www.FreedomCardboard.com) that talked about how someone was setting up a mega 16 slot custom card tournament. I LOVED this idea, and immediately wrote forum member MisterT asking if I could join in. I sent over 4 possibilities for entries, and they ended up setting up a mini bracket to pit my cards against each other. I was particularly interested in this, because I know there are several talented custom card makers out there who have been doing customs for many more years than I have, and I was curious
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