Sketch Cards Collection

I have talked about my sketch card collection a few times on here before.

Back in February I begin to tinker with building my own site to show off all my Cutch cards broken down by year.  I also made tabs for relics, autographs, sketch cards, printing plates, etc.

I have not been very productive at getting the site up and running.  I barely have enough time to scan a few cards for this blog.

However I did get most of my sketch cards scanned in.  They consist of pack pulled cards in addition to artist proof commissions.

In time I will have the artist links working as well.
Click here to see the small but growing collection.  I do have a few more coming in over the next month or so.

I love the Juan Rosales card pictured above.  Juan captured the joy of Cutch's 1st career Grand Slam perfectly.  He is in the process of getting 3 more sketch cards made for me (Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Team USA) all for different series (Series 2 Topps, Museum Collection, Leaf Pastime).  Really looking forward to gettimg those in hand.

Topps you cheated me of a back!!!!

The title might make you believe I just got "ho hum, another 1/1" Blank Back Vault card.  Unfortunately, thats not the case.

Instead I got in a bunch of color parallels from Topps Museum.

These cards look great as a set.

And the lot included this Canvas Collection sketch reproduction card.  Sweet!!!  The artist for this year's chosen Cutch card is Carlos Cabaleiro who I did an email interview with back in March.

But wait, the back says the same thing as the base Museum cards?
Not only is Topps recycling images.  Now they are recycling the text on the back too?

C'mon Topps!  Mix it up a little especially if it's a high end release like Museum.  The inserts are meant to draw attention.  Tell us about the artist of this reproduction sketch card and why this one was chosen over other sketch artists.

I didn't want to make this post so negative.  How can I change it?

Oh look.

Ho hum, it's another 1/1
The Emerald