Thing 5: Writer Trading cards

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I'm playing with Flickr Toys and I've discovered the Trading Card maker on Big Huge Labs. Once I found out that the photo must appear in focus on the card to be in focus anywhere (if you see what I mean) then it was easy to make some. One important thing I learned from this exercise was how to delete a photo from a blog post.

I also used Spell with Flickr to make my Librarian label to the left.

These tools are fun and I can see how great it would be to use the trading card maker for library displays (author cards, Dewey Decimal cards, banned books, etc) and events (Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series cards!).

Although I'm working with Mashups (without bananas or potatoes, happier and wiser me), I still don't think I could explain them exactly. I can show off their fruits, but I need to read over what they are again after the glittery dust from the Flickr Toy introduction settles.