Created a postcard

I wanted to try Postcrossing for a while. You’re given an address from someone somewhere in the world. You then mail a postcard to that person with the Postcrossing ID you are given. They tell postcrossing you sent your postcard, then you are added to their system for someone to get your address. Then you are sent a postcard with a different Postcrossing ID from somewhere else in the world.

It sounds like a great idea, but I was having trouble finding postcards to buy. I was looking through my mom’s pictures, and I noticed that she bought some postcards from the post office with prepaid postage. She must have bought them a while ago though, since they are printed with a 24 cent stamp image. But, since we can add postage to the postcard, I thought that I would use these.

They have no images, just a stamp image on one side on the top-right corner showing the postage. One of the things that I have on my 43things list is to create a postcard, so I figured I would get two birds with one stone this way.

I was trying to think of what to put on the postcard, and I wanted to do something that would show Elmira in some way. I thought of the Eldridge Park Carousel, and set off to draw a carousel horse. I had never drawn a horse before, so I wasn’t sure how it would turn out, but I’m pretty happy with the result: