That's one small step for collage...
...One giant leap for card kind.
Coming clean on this one! The cards not to scale... whilst you may bemoan this lack of effort and authenticity on the part of a useless designer (and you may be right)... I didn't quite fancy thinking through the practical challenges faced by having to make a topical scale card that likely stretched to the isle of Lewis. For one, the postage would be atronomical (bad puns aside), unless you commissioned a fleet of lorries to take the person to the card instead. Rental fees for the land covered would likely bankrupt most minor nations. The message inside would likely be highly repetitions in classic arial 11 and would probably take most of the counties or worlds pen supply, leaving the Kendel pencil museum one of humanities last bastions of written knowledge. The paper would likely block out the sun, killing all vegetation. And worst of all... not even the vast selection of envelopes on offer at the greatest shop ever "president" Clintons cards (...And now a word form our sponsors) ... would be able to cover it.. leaving the shop with a sour taste and lost revenue.
To be sly, I used the highly complex statistical method known as "The Hocum Formula" to reduce the space between the planets by a constant factor of "e* 5Pi^Mu" which allowed me to maintain "some" credibility and fit most of the popular planets (earth being the least popular but included for familiarity to the reader), squidged into a card sized space.
The rocket thrusters are indeed beer pumps from a cut out postcard.. and over the coming weeks/months, if you keep your eyes peeled you may see more bits of this postcard popping up in many other future and past cards (no left-over scrap goes to waste in my card-garage)... As a hint, I will say that the postcards certainly were a royal help...
I got the idea for this one from the background. This was part of a really nice patterned paper set and obviously just screamed "rushing through space"... thinking up a suitable cheesy one liner for the front and finding an old gold pen, the scene was set for a space adventure. My sis was (and still is) a big Bowie fan, as we all should be, and as I was giving her a ziggy-esque present, thought this card would fit the bill perfectly. The rest of the card is fairly straightforward being a mix of carefully cut, ripped and glued paper bits and colourful pen for character. Bowie makes his appearance in the card message, with suitably referenced lyrics about cakes and candles.. a valid question if ever i heard one! is there cake on mars? lets hope the new rover discovers some... might make the automated loneliness more bearable.
