+wannafly Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 I'm in the process of making my own "signature cards" (if thats the proper term) to leave in caches I visit. I have a great idea for my own (which I care not to disclose yet ) But would like to see some of what everyone else has come up with. Also, regarding these cards: Is it ok to take them from a cache, or leave them there? I've seen quite a few neat ones that i'd like to keep, but wasnt sure if I could take them or not. So, lets see 'em Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Signature items are fair game to take. The cards don't winter well in most cache containers and don't wear well in the rest. Quote Link to comment
+wannafly Posted August 5, 2003 Author Share Posted August 5, 2003 TL, thanks for the sample, looks good! I'm trying to decide what to put on mine (picture of me, gps, cache, i dunno). I'm working on it though. Renegade Knight, thanks for the awnser on taking sig items! Quote Link to comment
+yrium Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by wannafly: ...would like to see some of what everyone else has come up with. Hi Wannafly, Here's a link to an earlier post of mine that shows some geocacher trading cards that I've created. I'm currently working on the twenty-third card and getting good feed back from local cachers on their desirability as keepsakes. --- yrium --- Quote Link to comment
Fakk 2 Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Yrium, nice cards, Geocachers trading cards. Do you sell them in packs with a stick of bubble gum ? I bought a GPS. Now I get lost with style. Quote Link to comment
+wannafly Posted August 5, 2003 Author Share Posted August 5, 2003 yrium, thats what i was looking for! I'm doing some samples today and am going to "stress test" them to water and wrinkling...hopefully it'll all work out good. Quote Link to comment
+yrium Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Dream Alchemist: Yrium, nice cards, Geocachers trading cards. Do you sell them in packs with a stick of bubble gum ? No, But for a box of bubble gum I'd probably trade you a few. --- yrium --- Quote Link to comment
+yrium Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by wannafly:yrium, thats what i was looking for! I'm doing some samples today and am going to "stress test" them to water and wrinkling...hopefully it'll all work out good. I actually laminate all the trading cards I put out. It gives them a glossy finish and they are impervious to water damage. They do okay if they are spindled, but they are still subceptible to folding and mutilation. --- yrium --- Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Renegade Knight:Signature items are fair game to take. The cards don't winter well in most cache containers and don't wear well in the rest. I use Avery glossy business cards designed for edge-to-edge printing. I can't go the distance to laminate them yet, but each is placed in its own snack baggie to limit the leach damage to itself if it gets too damp. Most of them (and only because it happens if I think of it) are dated on the back with the GC# found and signed "Cheers! TL". Cheers! TL Quote Link to comment
+Scook Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Here's my card as posted in the MIGO Sig Database It's a bit weathered in this picture but I like to not laminate them so that a good conditon card is harder to find. That, hopefully, makes cachers get out there and cache more often in order to find a good card. I usually take only calling cards unless there is a request for it to be left in a cache. I'm building up a collection of them. I always leave an equal number of mine for what I take out. "Adrift in a world he never made!" Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 I left a bunch of these in caches for a while. They're all sequentially numbered, which I thought was kinda cool. It's a feature of the Avery software that you can download for free from their website. -- Pehmva! Random quote: Quote Link to comment
qman2 Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Here's mine. Pretty basic card. Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 quote:Originally posted by qman2:Here's mine. Pretty basic card. Nice, is that red x for -x marks the spot?- Quote Link to comment
+wannafly Posted August 6, 2003 Author Share Posted August 6, 2003 QMan, thanks for the reply! geocities doesnt allow outside linking, so you have to copy and paste this address into your browser to see it: http://www.geocities.com/EdgarSprings/cache_card.jpg I'll try to put a post of mine up later today. I was going to laminate them but the cost is way too high. So i think i'm just going to but little ziploc bags to put each one into. ($5 for 100 on ebay) Quote Link to comment
qman2 Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 wannafly, Thanks! It worked at first when I posted it but it looks like geocities gets hip to that type of access and shuts it down. Quote Link to comment
+trippy1976 Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 Speaking of the MiGO database, here's a link http://www.mi-geocaching.org/~sigitems/ About a kajillion cards, items, etc. Many thanks to the great Aardvark. If you have a card and want to submit it, email him... it'll get there eventually. -------- trippy1976 - Team KKF2A Saving geocaches - one golf ball at a time. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted August 6, 2003 Share Posted August 6, 2003 quote:Originally posted by wannafly:QMan, thanks for the reply! geocities doesnt allow outside linking, so you have to copy and paste this address into your browser to see it: http://www.geocities.com/EdgarSprings/cache_card.jpg I'll try to put a post of mine up later today. I was going to laminate them but the cost is way too high. So i think i'm just going to but little ziploc bags to put each one into. ($5 for 100 on ebay) Well that link is down now. Cheers! TL Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 I just created one: -------------------------------------------------- My Old posts as Geoffrey My Current Post as GOT GPS? My profile My Home Page about what is GPS Quote Link to comment
umc Posted August 7, 2003 Share Posted August 7, 2003 They are limited edition cards, notice the numbering and version number. They closely match my cache naming schema __________________________ Caching without a clue.... Quote Link to comment
+wannafly Posted August 8, 2003 Author Share Posted August 8, 2003 Ok. Heres my rough draft, i think i'll go with these for now and just make some changes. Please let me know what anyone thinks, if i should add something or what. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Merely a suggestion... If this isn't a glossy and you expect to write the geocache number on the front side; then you might want to leave a little more white space between the WannaFly visited here and the e-mail address. Otherwise it looks great! Cheers! TL Quote Link to comment
+wannafly Posted August 8, 2003 Author Share Posted August 8, 2003 OH i didn't think about writing the GC number on them! That's a great idea! I'm still up in the air as to whether or not to laminate them. I'll keep that in mind. Unofrunately our printer here at work broke today, so I wont have them for this weekend Quote Link to comment
webwizardry Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Been Reading the discusion, and noticed the ink bleeding from the ink jet printer problem. Here is a fast fix. Go down to Wal-mart and buy clear Spray paint around $1.50. After you print your cards let dry 1 minute, don't break them out of the sheet yet. Take out side and spray paint the cards front. Be careful not to focus to much on one location or it will run. the card is now water resistant. If you want you can spray paint the back side to make it almost water proof, but I find it Over kill, and that it kind of goes transparent. By the way you can still write on them at least with perm. pen. Quote Link to comment
radical geezer Posted August 9, 2003 Share Posted August 9, 2003 WF - Inspired by Yrium's cards, I've just recently begun creating a series I call Scenic Caches of the Great American Southwest. They're a bit larger (4x6) in order to do the scenery justice, and the back of the card features the cache's web page. I laminate them so they take the weather well. I'm up to seven different cards now and planning to do many more. They have been very well received. So far they're all southern California, but some fellow cachers have promised to supply pictures from Arizona and New Mexico soon, and I'm still looking for contributions from southern Nevada and Utah. Here's the front of one of the cards: Peace, Radical Geezer Quote Link to comment
+RobAGD Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 I just made these. I wanted to get something a little better printed up but I got tired of looking for a printer that would do small run full color printing of cards. Used those nifty Avery No Edge cards and teh Avery software to make this. thats the front. That image was made with a flash program that I am sure was taken down becaue of legal threats from the creators of South Park. Here is the back Just fill it in with a UltraFine sharpie at teh cache site. -Robert Quote Link to comment
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