Mailart 365 has moved

Paint chips:  Sanctuary Spa, Splish Splash, and Instant Orange, among others. A snowstorm in New England. Time to catch up on some creativity.

Via Flickr:
Created for a swapbot swap of paint chip postcards. I was so excited to see that Lowes was providing me 4x6 paint samples to use as backgrounds now...so nice...

Love the names...va va voom and citrus tickle on this one.

Via Flickr:
Created for a swapbot swap of paint chip postcards. I was so excited to see that Lowes was providing me 4x6 paint samples to use as backgrounds now...so nice...

The shells were also off the front of a Valspar booklet.

You can't tell from the scan, but Ginger is crystallized with embossing powder.

There are two in this series, and neither has been sent out yet. I made them hoping to use on Postcrossing for someone who likes dance, and mailart, but never pulled an address of anyone who met that criteria. And now I've semi-retired my Zmrzlina profile so someone else can claim top-sender in the US. I'll start Postcrossing again in earnest after the new year, but I'll use my PostMuse profile so Zmrzlina can slip out of the rankings list.

I'm still having fun with paint chips. I spend way too much time sneaking paint chips out of the hardware store.

There are two in this series, but I'm just posting one. I have lots and lots of catch-up posting to do and since the cards are very, very similar, I won't be posting each card in my series individually,

I have been making mailart every day, but just can't get to posting. I did scan most of my mailart soon after I made it so I could mail it, though. Just have to document it all on the blog now. It will be a slow process.

There are still cards from earlier in the year I haven't mailed. My main goal is to MAIL all 365 pieces of mailart before 1 December 2011. These two went as a Postcrossing card (which hasn't been registered yet and the recipient hasn't been online in a month ... so it will probably expire) in October and a thank you card for this Benjamin Franklin orphaned postcard.

BEFORE:


AFTER:

Perhaps this is the beginning, and the end, of my mosaic period. Katerina, I have a deeper than ever appreciation of your mosaic works. My fingers were SO covered with GLUE.

OK, The Green Daifuku red bean cake, with a warning advising the young and elderly to chew. REALLY? We have to tell people to chew their food? And, we also tell them that things in hot cups 'may be hot'. Right. We are a country of morons, surrounded by lawyers.

No matter how careful I am, I still can't seem to glue things down straight. Although, to cut myself a bit of slack, it is more the positioning of the rubber stamped honey jar that threw off the lines on this one.

This one is now Postcrossing US-1223445 and heading to Finland. It is my favorite of the three. I got the positioning almost right on this one.

I love the color of this paint chip. And if I could get the positioning just perfect, I think I'd make a million of this design. Perhaps it needs one more embellishment, though, but I can't think of what that might be.