Wondering how to display all your favourite postcards? Coast has six clever ideas - styled by Tanya Goodwin and photographed by Rachel Whiting - and here's the first…

We scanned interesting franking marks from favourite old postcards, then printed them on to Lazertran, a transfer paper. The paper was soaked in water and the image slid on to white ceramic pieces.

Lazertran, £10 for eight sheets, Lazertran. Ceramic dishes, from £4 each, Woolworths

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Display your holiday treasures

We scanned a selection of postcards, printed them on sticky-backed paper and passed them off as travel labels by sticking them on a wooden cube. A perfect way to remember seaside holidays.

Birch storage cube, £170, Store. Vintage Fifties record player, eBay

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Decorate a trinket box with découpage

The copperplate writing on the back of vintage postcards is not only fascinating, it’s decorative, too. We gathered up a selection and fixed them in rows to a shiny screen.

Barcelona chair and footstool, from £759.99, Go Modern. Lacquered screen, £184, Wight Studio

Some of the postcards we received were little pieces of art themselves. So we had them enlarged and printed onto canvas, then hung them on the wall.

Canvas, £70, www.canvasrus.co.uk. Vintage bobbin, from £12, Baileys. Recycled cardboard vase, £15, Hen & Hammock

We sent a digital image of an old postcard to Digitile, who printed it onto a ceramic tile. Just the thing to stand a refreshing jug of lemonade on.

From £25 per tile, Digitile, www.digitile.co.uk

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Make painted drinks coasters

This light comes with little movable bulldog clips, which are ideal for displaying a collection of cards. And the best thing is, they can be constantly changed and updated.

Zettelz 5 light, £590, Cameron Peters Lighting. Hudson’s Bay point blanket, £240; Jonathan Adler apple cushion, £46, lemon cushion, £85, and pear cushion, £46, all Selvedge. For a similar vintage phone, try After Noah.