Nine Pockets With Three Cards

Greg over at Nine Pockets blog has made some cool customs over the years and now those customs have come to real life as they are in print form!

I was fortunate awhile back to get a first sample of one of those cards in the Ed card from Good Burger, one of those classic 90's movies that I enjoy.

He recently hosted a giveaway to give some of those printed cards away and I had to jump on board.

Of course I had to grab a real printed version of the card this time to go along with my sample.

And had to grab the other Good Burger version as well.

The final card I grabbed, well, when I see any Seinfeld cardboard I don't hesitate:

George Costanza in the episode, Understudy. The  of when he plowed over Bette Midler and injures her leading to Bette's understudy who is dating Jerry to take over for her in the Broadway show Rochelle, Rochelle The Musical.

Back of the cards,

Cool huh?

Thanks again to Greg for the cards. I can't wait to see what you come up with next in this series.

The Front And The Back

Gavin from Baseball Card Breakdown blog and I usually do small PWE surprise exchanges occasionally, but sometimes we bring out the big guns and go all out. That was one of these times.

This time I brought out my Tim Duncan Printing Plates I have held onto for years from my Printing Plate PC-something I have broken up now in different trades-and we did a plate trade. Despite me messing up on my end, not noticing that one of the four plates was another player, Gavin was right on key with what he sent me.

Somehow or another, Gavin has been locating and hoarding Rodney Hampton printing plates for me. I am in no position to complain about that as I know one way or another they will make their way to me, it's just surprising how he finds them.

And this time he found three to send my way.

Back plate

Another back plate. I have another copy of this one. But, it appears the writing on this one is a tad darker than that one.

And we find the front to the backs.

 

With these plate adds, I now have 6 total. Four of which come from Gavin.

Next is a Ghostbusters autograph add for my set. Nice looking signature of Bobby Brown. Now only 7 autographs left to chase! (update only 3 left)

That was the trade we had made above, however, the great Gavin wasn't done there. He passed along some bonuses because he knew I could use some cheering up back when I had my first kidney stone surgery this year. Good guy.

Gavin had posted about this chopping up of a pair of Brian Giles game used pants and making relics. Well, this one was a tease for a Yankees fan as the card features Derek, but is Giles used and discusses Giles on the back. Still cool no matter.

I KNEW Slimer was a Giants fan. He may look green and live in NY so you gotta think Jets, but in the end, he is true blue. Great looking sketch card for my Ghostbusters PC by Gavin with an added Giants touch.

So another mail day from Gavin comes to a close. So long cowboy til next time and thanks Gavin!

 

(in case you were wondering why I stuck a random Elvis card in here, it's because Gavin sent it I assume as a filler)

HOBBY TOPIC:Custom Cards

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Today's Topic is

Custom Cards

Do you collect custom cards? Do you buy them or just trade or make them? What's the most you have or would be willing to spend on a custom card? When collecting them, do you consider them apart of your player/team PC or do you call them something else (this part I am wondering for myself)

Please make sure it's clean for our younger audience.

My Only Custom

There is nothing more fun then digging through boxes of random stuff and discovering items you forgot about.

Today's post is just that as I found my first and only ever custom card I put together in a shoe box of paperwork. Not the most ideal place for it, but I must have just tossed it aside and it got lost in the stack.

Now, unlike the rest of you bloggers you are pros at this game, mine was simply put together by hand. I believe Upper Deck held a contest 5 years ago on their Facebook page for fans to create a "new product" by designing their own cards so this was the best I could do.....

 

 

I took it appears a white filler card, colored it black, cut out an NHL logo from a magazine and a picture of Alex Ovechkin off from an Upper Deck pack and put it together. I think I called it UD Black Ice. I thought the player looking shiny was the "Ice" part of it. 

 

I think it looks cool, but definitely no pro look to it. Probably why I lost out on the contest too haha. 

What was your first custom card? Have a pic to share in comments? Let's see or hear about it.

Custom Card Mail Day, Check Out This Oscar Taveras!

This is a long overdo mail day shout out.

I recently stumbled upon a custom card maker, Matt Yerkes (One Star Chewing Gum), on Twitter who hosts contests and sells the cards that he makes. He recently designed this pretty sweet card of Oscar Taveras before his tragic passing and didn't feel right selling it so he gave it away.

This arrived a few days later.

I think his work is pretty impressive. This wasn't the only card I have seen of his work. I have checked out the others that he has posted and they look great as well. Maybe some card companies should take note of his designs.

Thanks again goes out to Matt for the card  I never owned a custom card before so this card will have its own special place in my rookie PC.