{"id":3683,"date":"2011-10-02T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T14:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frykitty.com\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2011-10-02T09:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T14:30:34","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-halloween-trading-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=3683","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Halloween Trading Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Happy Halloween LTC by frykitty, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frykitty\/6203906606\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6147\/6203906606_2b23736ee1.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Halloween LTC\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a hobby called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasquest.com\/about\/\">letterboxing<\/a>. It&#8217;s a treasure hunt where you hand-carve rubber stamps and leave them in interesting places for others to find. Then you go find theirs. An adjunct to this hobby is the <a href=\"http:\/\/pwp.att.net\/p\/s\/community.dll?ep=87&amp;subpageid=283814&amp;ck=\">Letterbox Trading Card<\/a>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cedarseed.com\/air\/atc.html\">Artist Trading Card<\/a>, but it must include a hand-carved stamp. This year, I planted a series of boxes just for the month of October, and I used the stamps to make a set of cards. I used neon embossing powders from Zing on these, hoping they would fluoresce. For the most part, they do:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Halloween LTCs--flourescent by frykitty, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/frykitty\/6203390007\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6163\/6203390007_aefa947194.jpg\" alt=\"Halloween LTCs--flourescent\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to hunt my series, you have until the first part of November before I pull the boxes. Follow the link above to find out more about the hobby before you venture out, then <a href=\"http:\/\/frykitty.com\/halloween2011\/halloween2011.html\">use my clues<\/a> to find the treasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a hobby called letterboxing. It&#8217;s a treasure hunt where you hand-carve rubber stamps and leave them in interesting places for others to find. Then you go find theirs. An adjunct to this hobby is the Letterbox Trading Card.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like an Artist Trading Card, but it must include a hand-carved stamp. This year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-spooky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}