I made a Homer Simpson Baseball Card out of Junk Mail
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You've heard of junk wax cards ... how about junk mail cards?
Have you ever been thankful for a piece of junk mail? Me neither, that is, until a few days ago. When it came in, I knew the material looked familiar. I held it up to a 2011 Topps Diamond Anniversary card, and sure enough - it was the same material ... just green!
When I started doing customs, I would always look at different materials and wonder to myself what could be used to create customs that would be fun. No joke, I'd literally be standing in the shower looking at the curtain and think to myself "Man, that may look really cool as a baseball card! Showerfractor!!!"
I thought I'd go ahead and do something with this piece of junk mail, so I flattened it out.
Cut off the bends
Made a 2.5" x 3.5" rectangle
And used some artwork I had of Homer Simpson - you may remember me doing a fun 1993 SP mock up of this years ago. This was a 2 AM project for me, so I thought I'd use it for this.
Here it is - a Homer Simpson Junk Mail custom card. I wanted it to show the wording and credit card graphic a bit so it could tell a story of what it was.
I'm still laughing about this one 
It was fun creating this out of something that would have been thrown away normally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nsz9qTOfpU
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That is smooth. That just might be the coolest thing I've seen in a while.🖒
Doh....
That is awesome, Tanner! Great work.
That's awesome! I love me some Dancing Homer.
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un-bee-leeve-a-bull.
You make it look so easy, because it is, but it is not - if that makes any sense.
Thanks for sharing!
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You need to complete the Isotopes team set: Flash Baylor, Fishbone Walker, Smash Diggins, Buck Mitchell and Babe Ruth IV.
Thank you very much everyone!
You have NO idea how often I start off by saying something about "he's no Babe Ruth the III, but..."
very cool card
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maybe a flaming homer side insert card
Tanner, that is awesome!!!
I wish I had that kind of vision...
Thanks for sharing, Donato
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This is awesome!! You should do an entire Springfield Isotopes set. Please include one of Ken Griffey's giant head, I need it for my PC.
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Nice work Tanner. I will never think of my junk mail the same.
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Awesome
Now post your address and I will send along ALL of my junk mail to you and I am sure others will too!
Thank you baseballfan!
Now that would be epic!
Thank you, Donato! I appreciate the feedback
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When I went to Jose's house, I had him sign it, personalizing it to Mrs. Krabappel. He was confused at first, and then I started to tell him, then he quickly remembered Here is an article I wrote about it:
https://tanmanbaseballfan.com/2015/0...-krabappe.html
I also did a fun spoof article on Homer at the Bat when I shaved off my 'stache here: https://tanmanbaseballfan.com/2017/0...-simpsons.html
Last but not least, Topps actually created a card (the only licensed card I know of) that talks about his Simpsons appearance. I was able to pick up the Wood 1/1 "Cartoon Hero" - I'm still pretty freakin' stoked about it:
Then my work here is done LOL! Thanks
Heck yeah! Let me get my mother in law's address for you one sec ...
(just kidding...though there are some folks out there I wouldn't mind bombarding with junk mail!)
As usual. Very creative Tanner.