Mailart 365 has moved

JJ used to have a t-shirt that said "art can't hurt you". I really like that statement and felt like putting it out there on a piece of MA. Not sure yet who to send this to...oh, wait, yes I do!!!

For a couple of days I have been building shelves and a desk for my craft room. It's looking really good so far. I hope I get it done before my trip. I just can't wait until I have it done.


Check my other blog for my progress.
http://ladyldesigns.blogspot.com/


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A while back Keira Pannell suggested I try to expand my sticker technique to do something with lines.

I have to be honest, I wasn't quite sure what she meant, but I started this piece on the 23rd with the intention of cutting lines away from the sticker. The intention was purely to cut out Elenas outline then have radiating lines. However, I got a little carried away and decided to add wings to her with outline and also use the bridge in the background.

I finished this piece on Christmas day, stuffed to the eyeballs with duck, Elena now in possession of a pair of wings and everything.

I'm not sure if I quite done what Keira was suggesting, but I don't mind. It worked out alright.

This is one of the clear stamps that I coloured using glitter gel pens. I'm loving the glitter look at the moment.
Sadly the the glitter pens don't scan very well so the cool effect is lost.

#365.030

A year ago today, I was getting ready to get on an airplane to head up first to Boston, and then by car to a mountain in Maine. There was a snow storm coming in and we had to be in Maine by 2 January 2010, my daughter's wedding day. We made it, and it was wonderful.

My daughter got married on skis. It was the wedding she dreamed about since she was a little girl. She skied down the mountain with her dad, met her fiance and guests at the bottom where we had an outdoor ceremony, in the snow. Later we all gathered for a lovely dinner in the ski lodge. It was a small wedding and quite beautiful. My other daughter got married in a big fairytale wedding a few years earlier. And that was quite beautiful, too. I've had the best of both worlds.

As much as I love sending mail, I find sending out birthday and anniversary cards very difficult. Even letters to my family are harder for me to write than to complete strangers. This year I resolve to end that and this card, which is going to Melanie and Nick for their first anniversary, is the first step toward that resolve. I will send a card to recognize every celebration in my family, and I will write to my family, just out-of-the-blue letters.

Karen

He likes mailart & she likes brains & moonbeams.

A couple of shrooms from the favorite discarded nature encyclopedia.

I almost never have people in my art so I'm not sure how she slid in here...

I've been keeping up with making the cards. Not so much with posting... :)

Happy New Year everyone. One month down, 11 to go!

Boo Cartledge, # 31.  Hard to believe we've been doing this for a whole month!  Time to switch to New Year's or general cards, but I'm not ready to give up bunnies quite yet.  Happy December, y'all, and here's to a healthy new year.  xxxooo Boo  Sent to Lynette Killam.

This postcard is for my friend Val and features Joey.

Who is Joey?? Asian superstar or ingenue? Sadly, I do not know. I bought a set of Joey postcards and I have no idea who she is, only that she exudes pertness and pluck. The picture of her I used for this card is the only one of her looking subdued so I didn't feel bad about cutting it out of the postcard, which on the whole are so wacky that they stand on their own!

I had about ten minutes for this one! Sent to the best realtor ever.

Naptime was ending so I cut and pasted like a mad woman!

Art for Myrna

Peace for Myrna

Continuing the series, this letter is from Abigail Adams to John Adams.



                                                        

and HAppy first month to all.

Mummers celebrating St Stephan's Day, Dora Keogh's, Toronto.

Bay and College Streets, Toronto

Danforth, Blackeye, Toronto.

#365.025

"No amount of coffee, no amount of crying, 
No amount of whiskey no amount of wine,
No no no no no nothing else will do,
I've gotta have you." - The Weepies, Gotta Have You


I couldn't get the above lyrics out of my head yesterday, and it's still bouncing around in there.

This is going to Austin James, who sent me this wonderful card when I first joined IUOMA last month. I had sent him this card, confessing that I can't relate to people through music, before receiving his music-related card that actually does relate to my life.

Just thought I would try it..

Not sure where its going

#ers 11,12,13 & 15
I forgot to scan or photograph 10 and 14....I am hoping the recipients will upload pics of these as I am working on a final "collective" piece of my 365's.

#ers 6,7,8 & 9
6 and 7 I am particularly happy with. I am a film studies student with a passion for Iranian film and film history. I think almost every piece I have created to date has an element of film in it.

"sense of purpose."

"I hung it from my ceiling"

Another love letter, this one from 1776!