Joy as Chile miners reach surface (BBC article title) - my Zazzle stamp project to celebrate this great news!

This is my Zazzle stamp project, subject to approval, in celebration of what may be the best good news in the world, in 2010!

Zazzle has approved today my stamp design!
The final version that I submitted has a black border.

http://www.zazzle.com/estamos_bien_en_el_refugio_los_33_miners_message_postage-172647292784973087?rf=238693463283865848

See photos of the rescue, provided by the Chilean Government:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rescatemineros

To be mailed: covers/envelopes with Zazzle (personalized) stamps - only 20 stamps in the world, so far, from most of my stamp designs!

To allow you to see all the details, I have scanned these at a higher resolution (300dpi) than the default one.

If you click on each image and scroll, you'll see.

Click to ZOOM IN, then click again to further ZOOM IN.

Zazzle stamps, like these, are part of the future of philately, I think.

They are not your Grandpa's usual stamps, always designed by somebody else.

Today, YOU can design personalized stamps, and Grandpa can do it, too, with a little help in the IT department. :)

Designing is free. Owning is not, of course.

See examples of my designs (stamps, custom postcards, T-shirts, etc.) in the zazzle link below.

Philately (stamp collecting) in general, and maximaphily in particular, as a confluence of domains: learning, writing, web design, business administration, etc.
http://dorincard.blogspot.com
http://dorinco.webs.com
http://www.squidoo.com/dorincard
http://www.delcampe.com/stores/dorinco
http://www.zazzle.com/dorinco*/
http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/

Asian Golden Cat (Pardofelis temminckii; syn. Catopuma temminckii) - this is a dorincard that I created with an A4 (page-size) image of a magazine page.

Is this a traditional, FIP-compliant maximum card? No.

Is this made with a commercial, normal size postcard? No.

Do I like this dorincard? Yes.

How about you?

Wild experiment: go to your local store(s) where you buy postcards, and ask, with a straight face, for "a normal postcard with an Asian Golden Cat, in other words Pardofelis temminckii."

The clerk will look at you, wondering what the hell is wrong with you, then you'll get a NO.

So what's a collector to do? Nothing?

YOU do that, if that's what you want.

I prefer to find solutions.

In this case, I found this large, detailed, gorgeous image in a magazine.

I own this copy of the page (a real page), and I can do many things with it.

Of course, I choose to use it as a postcard.

I could even mail it, but I would risk getting it damaged or losing it.

The normal fate (99.99% of the time) of a magazine page is to end up in the trash, don't you think?

Well, think.

:)

Since the image is superb, I could really affix the label with the postmarked stamp onto it.

My good friend Ye Choh San (Malaysia) has sent me that serviced label, at my request.

"The Asian Golden Cat (Pardofelis temminckii syn. Catopuma temminckii), also called the Asiatic Golden Cat and Temminck's Golden Cat, is a medium-sized wild cat of Southeastern Asia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_golden_cat

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