Pink Postcard Swap - mail by April 22nd

By popular demand, our next color swap will focus on the color PINK!

 

Create a postcard using predominantly pink colors.

You can paint, draw, cut, glue, and/or embellish.  It’s okay to include a bit of black or white, or a small accent of another color, but overall, keep to the pink family.

These postcards will be mailed without an envelope to your partner, so keep that in mind if you are gluing and embellishing.

 

SWAP DETAILS:

•  Create your postcard - any dimensions, just make sure you include the proper postage for the size.
• Include your name and contact information on the back (address and/or email and/or blog) so that you partner can thank you or find out more about you.
• Write a little note for your partner – a greeting, a quote, some info about you or where you live, or info about how you created your postcard.
• Write "MMSA pink" somewhere on the back of the card as well.  (I don't know about you, but I get a lot of mail, and it's sometimes hard to figure out if it's part of an organized swap or just personal mail.)
• leave the address section blank
• Stick it in an envelope with:
• a stamp (don't adhere to the postcard in case I need to send yours to someone out of the country).  Keep in mind the maximum size card you can send with the post card rate stamp is 4x6.25 inches.  If your card is bigger than this, or oddly shaped, or excessively rigid or lumpy, it will need more postage.
•  a mailing label with your name and address on it (I will stick it on the card I mail back to you.  This keeps me from having to decipher handwriting on the envelope you send me, and saves me time when swapping everything and mailing it back out) 
•  mail it to me no later than April 22nd (postmark date)

             Karen Isaacson
             PO Box 532
             Shrewsbury, MA 01545
             United States

• Feel free to make more than one ( you can send them to me in the same envelope).  You'll get back the number of postcards you create.  Make sure to include a mailing label and stamp for each post card.
• If you live outside the US, don't include stamps, but send me $1.10 (US dollars) per postcard for postage via paypal.  (email: iamrushmore@gmail.com)
• I will post your work to the blog when I receive it.  If you would like your image linked to your blog, or flickr account, or facebook page, or etsy shop (or whatever) just send me a note telling me how you want it linked.  (this is a great way to meet other artists and make lots of new friends)

round postcards - part 1

The round postcards have started rolling in and they are spectacular.

See for yourself.

I love the way Carroll used tape to frame her wonderful flowers.

Indigo  is swapping with us for the first time.  Welcome Indigo - hope to see you in many more swaps!

Elaine used an old school folder to make this great postcard while she should have been doing her stats homework.

 Leslie's captions crack me up.

Melva is another first-time-with-MMSA swapper.  Her postcards are fabulously layered and textured.

 

Tina's card has a great 60's mod kind of feel to it.  I'd like to see that as fabric!

You've got until April 8th to send something round of your own.

Click here for swap details.

through my window - part 2

 Here are the remaining "window" cards, getting ready to go out to their new homes.

I love the wonderfully creative visions everyone came up with.

If any of these guys are hanging around Barbara's windows, I'm heading to her house for a visit.

Judith's "world of mysteries" includes the view of a pool and seascape from her recent travels.  Hopefully the lion didn't come in for a visit.

Frances does a lot of art experiments with her grandkids and uses her on-line research to inspire her own work. 

Currie started with a photograph of one of her actual windows, and worked some photoshop magic.

 Lynn combats her actual cold, dreary Connecticut view with this oasis.

Being from the same gray region of the country, I'm considering taping this card to my window.

green postcards part 2

It's Friday, you've got the whole weekend stretching out ahead of you, why not sit down and make some green postcards?

Need some inspiration?

I've got plenty right here:

Amy made four cards featuring a hand carved stamp that was inspired by a scarf she saw at an art museum.

Barbara's backgrounds are the most luscious emerald color, and oh how I love that flying car.

Currie is taking a year-long giraffe journey, but also made a seahorse card for good measure.

Peggy joins MMSA for the first time, and tells us this is her first postcard swap, and she's rather new to collage.  Sure wouldn't know it to look at her cards.  Welcome Peggy!

Marsie sent this lovely and harmonious card.

 Ria had so much fun with her first green postcard she decided to make another and sent it off a week later. (see what happens when you start early?)

Sam's green elephant swam across the Atlantic to me and still looks quite dapper.

 Shirley's cards positively sing with springtime.

(if only my snow would melt!)

Terrie  (who is making 365 collages in 2013) sent these fab four.

Impossible to not be inspired, don't you agree?

So get going and drop some more green in the mail by Monday. 

Through My Window - part 1

So far, I have received 4 lovely responses to the "Through my window" challenge.

Ellen's haiku on the back of her card reads:

"Outside the window

The backyard is in full bloom

Flowers everywhere"

(lucky Ellen!)

 Elaine, a self-professed "closet sketcher"  joins MMSA for the first time with this lovely drawing.

Welcome Elaine - glad you found us!

 Ria (who is also a photographer) took this picture in New Mexico, where she lived for 4 years.

Terrie sent this beautiful watercolor.

(you are a woman of many talents, Terrie!)

 

I bet there are more great "windows" waiting for me in mailbox.  Stay tuned!

green postcards part 1

Here is the first batch of green postcards to grace my mailbox.

Carroll sent three kitty tributes:

The first of Colleen's two postcards makes me wonder:

1.  what is a where are you contest?

2. why am I not on that beach?

 

 

 Cynthia sent these three cards (and this child of the 70's laughed out loud at #1)

 

 

Ria says her new washi tape inspired this card.

I can't think of many things better than having Kermit poke out of my mailbox.

 

Still plenty of time to join this swap - just mail them by March 18th!

yellow postcards part 3

 Eek - I'm falling asleep on the job here!  I uploaded these pictures last weekend, and forgot that I never actually wrote the blog post.  I also forgot I haven't actually swapped them and mailed them yet.
Do you ever complete tasks in your head and think you've also done it in reality?  I get sooo much accomplished in my head.
My task for the day - show you this final batch of postcards and get them all on their way to you.  For real.

First up - Two from Jean.
I'm a sucker for a rotary phone, and I love the way there's a phone message form as the background.

The texture on this giraffe card from Karen M. is fabulous.

The talented and prolific Katie submits four for this challenge:

Tina's lily practically jumps off the card:

Two beautiful and fabulously different cards from Tallie:

 

What should our next color swap be?

First commenter gets to pick it!