Beautiful
Very tasty cardmaximum))
Sorry if this is a silly question, but how/where do you buy these in Australia? Thanks x
The Pantone cards? I bought them from The Nile. They list things that aren’t sold in Australia and ship them from other countries, so it was not super-fast. But I couldn’t find them from any other local supplier.
Thank you
Maxicards realised on the theme of the Japanese manga/anime Cardcaptor Sakura, using the set of matching ‘frame’ stamps that celebrate the 25th anniversary of the anime adaptation.
The choice of cancellation may be unintuitive at first: As this work was created by the manga artist group CLAMP whose members were all born on different days and at different locations (3 in Kyoto and 1 in Osaka), it’s impossible to get the cancel on the creator’s birthday. So I opted for this work’s first run date instead. However, there wasn’t much information that could be found about which date it is – I only knew that it was first serialised in the June 1996 issue of the magazine Nakayoshi. So I set the cancellation date on the first of June this year.
As to the location of the cancel – since it’s a tough choice to pick only one location in Kyoto / Osaka for the creation of these maxicards, I opted instead for the location where the story was set. It’s supposed to be somewhere in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and if memory serves, I dimly remember that Tokyo Tower – the old symbol of Tokyo – appeared in the story. Hence, I chose this classic fukei-in that has started being in use since 1959, the next year Tokyo Tower had been inaugurated.
[Date of cancellation: 1 June 2024.]
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They are amazing!!!
Greetings Summer stamps
There are ten different designs on the stamps, but both postmark designs feature morning glories.
I love the windchime postcard - I want to find something similar!
Beautiful Meerabai cards and stamps offered by @nj_mails to help me create my first ever Maxicard
I loved the process, thank you so much
Oh, so beautiful! And I think the cancellation is very fitting.
I loved Card Captor Sakura 20+ years ago and it’s one of the very few manga I’ve kept and still have on my bookshelve. Now I want to re-read it very badly…
These are great! Where are the first and last fukei-in from? I don’t seem to have the sunflower one in my Hokkaido map (and Google translate isn’t helping) and I can’t make out the second kanji in the last one clearly enough to translate it.
@mooseontheloose
The first one is from 豊里(Toyosato) Post Office. They stamped it very carefully
The last one is from 丸亀(Marugame) Post Office.
Thanks! I should have guessed the Marugame one, after all I do know that first kanji and have been there myself, but I haven’t had a chance to work on the Shikoku portion of my fukei-in map. Is the Toyosato post office the one Ozara? It seems to be a common name.
Does “Ozara” mean Ozora-cho(大空町)?
If so, yes it is
Teddy bears
I found the postmark, then discovered how many stamps Australia has made with Teddy Bears. Why are there so many?! This is definitely the biggest set of maxicards I have made.
I immediately fell in love with the teddy bears!
So cute!
I’m in just love with this pretty Postmark and illustration i love sunflowers
also reminds me of my penpal who left this hobby
Amelia Earhart maxicard from Serbia: