Home Alone

Typically I do not make cards with timing in mind.  I just kind of make what I feel like, when I feel like and if it matches up with a season or anniversary it's probably just luck.  With that being said I knew I wanted to make a Home Alone set to release around the holidays for quite awhile now.  The problem was I procrastinated until almost too late.  Well, I jut got this one in under the wire.

Matching the year of the movie's release I did these in the style of the 1990 Topps baseball set.  I thought about a red or green border to make it more Christmasy but went with blue as it reminded me of the movie poster for Home Alone.

1990 Topps baseball

I found that there's tons of little Home Alone factoids so I packed the backs of these cards with those did ya knows.  Theses are more most info rich PCb. card backs to date.

By Request

The following couple of cards were suggested by two followers to the Phantom Cardboard Instagram account.

The first is Nacho from Nacho Libre.  This was pretty straight forward.  Find a cool photo and plug it into the 1985 Topps WWF set I've been using for fictional movie wrestlers.  I'm a fan of Jack Black and I thought Nacho Libre was decently funny.

It was asked if I've ever done cards from the 1979 movie Breaking Away.  The answer at the time was no as I'd never even seen the movie.  That was rectified in short time with another follower to the page hooking me with with his extra copy of the movie on VHS.

This card is done in the style of the 1979 Topps baseball set. I opted to freestyle a team card rather than make a card four each of the four Cutters.  The movie was released in 1979 with the Little 500 race set in 1978.  I know that from seeing a promotional picture of the Dave Stoller character holding a trophy with the year engraved on it.