Packaging Materials (Post Card Swap) - Send to host by February 6th

Card base wrapped with brown paper, overstamped with inked bubble wrap
and cardboard corrugation pressed into gold acrylic paint to make stripes

This post card swap will give you an excuse 

to go through the trash or recycle bin.

Start with collage materials like packaging paper (used to cushion contents),  brown wrapping paper, tape,

magazine mailing sleeves, 

tyvek or cardboard mailer envelopes.

Postage stamps allowed as accents, also

theme-related rubberstamped images.
If you feel your design needs more oomph, some creativity will be allowed.  Surprise us!

ADVANCED:

Use plastic bubble wrap with ink or paint

to "stamp" out round images, AND/OR

Peel off the outer layer from a cardboard box 

and use the corrugated rows with ink or paint

to "stamp" out stripes.  (See image below)

Peeled cardboard torn from a box flap

THEME:  Packaging Materials

MEDIA:  materials used 
to ship/mail/send packages

TECHNIQUE:  Collage

SIZE PARAMETERS:  
Post Card 4+1/4" x 6" 

CHECKLIST:  waxed paper between cards, self-address labels, postage