We all want to make our postcards & letters personal. A massive Gamechanger for me is midjourney ai. Today I want to provide a little inspiration for all that use midjourney already but haven’t integrated it into their Postcrossing Journey.
What is midjourney
It’s an AI Service that let’s you feed their AI with your own image prompts. Then it’ll come up with completely new art based on your prompts.
For example Emma Watson as christmas Marilyn Monroe
Of course, some prompts work better than others, and sometimes you have to try a lot until you have created the perfect image. However, usually you can enter and combine anything, which gives you an incredible amount of creative freedom.
So, how can you integrate midjourney into postcrossing?
POSTCARDS
Firstly, there are services that print custom postcards.
You can use one of your favorite art pieces to send out postcards that only exist once in the world and are owned by you, only 
I feel like this is such a special thing to send away. The service I found prints 10 cards for 9,90 € which to me is absolutely ok for then being able to own and send out absolutely 1 of a kind cards.
Some of you may have seen it (or even participated) - I recently started a lottery and will send out Harry Potter Christmas Cards I created with the AI to the winners. This is the motive that will be printed professionally as a postcard:
This is another motive (herbology class) which is printed:
STICKERS
I did the exact same thing to purchase photo stickers from the same service.
And they only cost 2,99€ for 16! different, custom stickers. I thought about what motives I want to have to include in my mailing. Then I created some “horror & halloween” themed stickers in a postage stamp look as well as some cats, moths, and other themes I like.
This is the outcome.
Their size is perfect for small postcards and I’m absolutely obsessed! 
Lastly, POLAROIDS
This can only be done by the people who have a polaroid printer like Instax but since those became quite popular - I bet a bunch of you have one. 
I usually send custom Polaroids to my penpals depending on what they really like or depending on the topic of my letter.
Again, I’m using midjourney to create motives that work for me and will print them as a little polaroid. 
That then looks like this:
And of course, if you have a printer, just make use of midjourney to print out some custom motives and paper to decorate your cards with.
I hope this inspired you to integrate midjourney ai. into your postcrossing /snailmail experience. If you live in Germany and want to know what service I use for sticker/card printing: > it’s cewe.de
I have made some experiments with free AI image services but their quality wasn’t very good (at least not good enough for postcards)
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