Artistamps & Zine for Charity

I am so excited that some of my artistamps are featured in a zine [A DISSIMULATION OF BIRDS Volume 2] by TangleCrafts.  She is selling the zine and other items to raise money for Beating Bowel Cancer.  She lost her father to the disease in May and is raising funds for the charity.  Please either buy an item from her Etsy store or donate to Beating Bowel Cancer.

National Postcard Week 2013

The first full week in May is National Postcard Week [NPCW] in the USA.  2013 is the 30th year and is the week of May 5-11.  This is the first year I have participated.  I used photos that I took to make my own postcards.  I created 2 designs and made 100 of each.  My goal was to send 200 postcards.  So far I have sent 208 - obviously 8 not of my design (store bought for specific swaps I joined).  I learned a lot about making postcards.  Mine look pretty amateurish and are a bit thinner than typical postcards - but still meet the postal regulations.  Below are the postcards I made for NPCW 2013.  I have received less than 70 postcards this week so far but I expect more will arrive over the weekend.  Plus I mailed many postcards to family and friends and do not expect a postcard in return.

These are my cats Grady and Zoey on their cat tree watching the mail truck make its rounds in the neighborhood.  Photo taken November 2012.

This is Hayden Falls which flows into the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio.  Photo taken February 2013.

For more information on National Postcard Week, check out this website.  To see other postcards made and sent this week, click here [a page in the website link above].

MailArt 365

In mid-February I decided to participate in MailArt 365.  I had heard about it a long time ago plus I have received mailart from people doing the 365.  It took a while before I was willing to commit to a year of mailart.  The challenge for me is consistency besides having a small pool of people to send mailart to.  Time to expand my mail circles perhaps...

Anyway, below are some scans of a few pieces (all shown are postcards) that I have sent so far.