We are already into the new year (2020) and I never did come back and finish my DIY Post Card Swap. As I mentioned in the previous post, the Post Card Swap was an event by the creator of the Studio iHannah blog and if you signed up you were tasked with creating 10 handmade postcards to mail to others in the swap -- I had a few international swaps, so that was real fun knowing they were going to be sent to another country.
I created most of my postcards out of paper ephemera (aka, stuff that most everyone throws away,) but I also used washi tape, magazine pages, stickers and bits and pieces of greeting cards.
The above post card was made (top to bottom) from two pieces of magazine pages (the donut and candy), a paper band taken from around silverware at a restaurant (coffee), a postcard sent out from a local retailer about a vintage sale near the beach (VW bug and flamingo) and finally the bottom part is from a greeting card.
The Beautiful card above is made with security envelopes, magazine cutouts, Kleenex box and yellow colored acetate. I try to keep all of the hanging lamps that I can find in magazines. It's so much fun to put them into a collage just hanging down from the top in whatever scene is going on. This one looks like it could be highlighting the miniature people.
One of our local pizza places has some of the best creative advertising. They were talking about their great bread and had this gondolier riding in a bread stick! How could I not use that. It was pure comedy. Then I found a magazine photo of real gondolas and gondoliers - the two were meant to be together.
Since this swap was all about mail, I chose to make one of the cards with several mail related items. A pick up tag for my mail at my mailbox, the return address from an Etsy purchase I made with a woman from Russia, my Park and Fly tag, the number I received when I took my car in for service, the stamp I got on a piece of mail and of course the *Fra-jeel-a sticker on a package I received.
*ya know, from A Christmas Story!
This one all started with a FLOW magazine. I love those umbrella people and I also really liked the green paper with the abstract floral design and they were both found in that magazine. Then of course, I found a hanging light. The rest just sort of worked to make it look good.
I worked long and hard to find a place for the skate boarding kid. I had him all cut out and tried him on so many different backgrounds and configurations. I didn't realize how hard it was going to be to place him. I found this green plate or bowl that had just the right curves and the right size for the post card and that finally made the kid work. Then I decided he could "jump the shark" while he was cruising through the mountains. Unrealistic, sure, but fun!
The gorgeous fall colors of this mountainous area was the jumping off point for this postcard. The zig zag of the orange from a another Kleenex box, I thought played well with the mountain colors. The rest was fun foliage and of course a hanging element, this time a spider. The base for this postcard was the back cover of a braille book, so I used a portion of a page of braille to go with it.
The first post I showed 3 of the cards and this one 7, so that concludes the 10 handmade post cards that I made for the DIY Post Card Swap. Coming up sometime soon, I will show what I received in the swap.
I hope you have a great day!
Kristin
