Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap

The Postcard swap is now at an end and to finish it off properly, there is a final BlogHop to visit all those involved. 

It has been a long journey, especially for the postcards and the lovely Kat who has swapped everyone's lovely artwork and sent them whirring around the world.

The postcards have now all found new homes and will be treasured by the recipients.

Looking forward to visiting all the lovely blogs involved and seeing everyone's liberated art.

Please stop by The Kat Eye View of the World to see all the lovely bloggers involved.

Postcard #4

What a beautiful colourful card! The Liberate your art postcard swap is surely well under way and there are so many beautiful cards appearing in the facebook page. This lovely card is from Dee Vlasak on Instagram.

The back reads:

Greetings from Santa Cruz, CA.

Hope you have a wonderful, creative day.

"when you do things from your soul,

you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

~RUMI

Postcard #3

An amazing artistic postcard from Char'i Lawson in Colardo Springs, this time stamped from a special place, National Postal Museum Station in Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Quoted on the back of the card is:

I look at everything with one eye closed, to mix the truth of my mind with the lies of this world. I am not perfect...just another face.

Such a true statement.

Due to it being a facial piece I just had to have a go at picture placement with it too, hope you like it.

Another postcard...

Another arrival from across the pond :) in the Liberate your art postcard swap.

This time from Vicki Ducham. A lovely altered book artist in New York.

I just love the colours in this card, so beautiful!!! Aloha Vicki!

Where oh where are these postcards from?

It's started!!!!! The liberate your art postcard swap is well under way and postcards have been arriving thick and fast across the globe. The pictures on the facebook group have been delightful so here is my first postcard, surrounded by what was on my dining table at the time.

Makes for an exotic picture don't you think.

Received from the lovely Sonya Versluys.An amazing lady who has been fighting Lyme Disease and yet still finds time to share her creativity to the world. A real inspiration, and thankyou so much for joining the swap, It's a pleasure to produce art alongside you in this harsh world.

Here is the back of the postcard:

 

Liberate your art postcard swap

Deadline day is today!

I just love this swap! I rarely create what I call art as I'm usually making jewellery but you can even send in pictures of that too. Here are the postcards I sent in for this years swap. Last year my postcards didn't quite make it in time, despite the post office assuring me they would be there in time :(

The Love piece is a copper charm I stamped with letters, the blue is a microscopic picture of one of my blue Agate gemstones I've been meaning to wire wrap (We found a new toy at work), and the third is a picture taken of my hot chocolate whilst at Craft Candy one weekend, the bubbles had little rainbows in them.



So happy to be a part of it and looking forward to receiving some lovely postcards. Unfortunately I had to print them on the laser printer at work so I hope they look OK. If anyone is interested in swapping more cards outside of the swap please let me know as I have quite a few extra :)

Liberate Your Art

I believe the swap is coming to a close and I have now received all 6 postcards.

Here they are in the order I received them.

I also received a lovely postcard from Kat too who ran the swap. Will upload a pic once I have taken one...

Liberate Your Art

The Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap is well under way and people all over the world have been receiving some lovely postcards. I myself have now received four, I will post all 6 postcards in one post with the dates I received them and their details etc. Meanwhile take a look at the Facebook Page where everyone has been posting pictures of their postcards.

Liberate Your Art - Blog Hop

I've not long posted about the postcards I received during the swap however for this weekend there is a blog hop for all the participants so here is my entry for the weekend.

When I first spotted the swap on another blog I immediately checked in and signed up. I joined Postcrossing.com at the beginning of the year so being able to actually send my artwork to people who would appreciate it via Kat in America, I couldn't help but jump at the chance, and to not only send art but receive it too.

The idea of the swap was to create five printed postcards of your own artwork, whatever that art be and send them to Kat in America whom then swapped them all about and mailed them all out across the world, each person receiving 5 postcards in return. A way of sharing your artwork, and connecting with other artists across the blogging world.

So many photographers, artists, and crafters alike joined in that there were over 200 participants meaning everyone involved would receive an extra postcard from Kat herself for joining in.

Here are all the postcards I received from the swap:



I would like to say a HUGE thankyou for the lovely postcards and messages I received and a special thankyou to Kat for organising, distributing, it's been a HUGE success and I would love to do it again in the near future.

Thankyou for the lovely card Kat and what a wonderful way to finish the swap with a blog hop!

Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of my 5 postcards before sending them on to Kat so I am looking for them in the Blog Hop below... Happy Blog-hopping everyone!

Postcards...

I joined 2 postcard swaps before my holiday. The first being a swap on ACN stitching forum. Here are the postcards I received from the swap including one from Norway and one from Canada. 9 members in total sent a card from their local area to all the members. I myself sent a second card to each participant whilst on my holiday in Mallorca too.



The second swap was 'Liberate your Art' of which 5 art postcards were sent to Kat in America and in return you received 5 postcards from other people in the swap. Here are the 5 cards I received...



As I was on holiday, I don't know the order that they arrived so this is pretty random.

#1 received from Ann


#2 received from Terrie


#3 received from Peggy Richards - Unfortunately I have no blog address for Peggy.


#4 received from Chelsea


#5 received from Marji


Thankyou for a lovely swap ladies!

Liberate your Art

I have just been back to the Liberate your Art page and finally got around to looking through all the blogs of people who are joining in. There have been so many additions since I joined and there are some amazing people in the crafting world! I am soo pleased to be a part of the exchange.

There are many, many photographers on the list as well as jewellery makers, scrapbookers, artists, digital artists, quilters, embroiderers, glass art, and something called Gourd art, there are so many more that here are a few of the links for you to peruse, the rest can be found here.

pointy pix

fiber works

the red tin

aquarel rivers

thirty years apart

cottage960

cindy lews studio

tracy swartz

random thoughts do or di

life needs art

odd imagination

love and peas creations

Also I found out about a cool sketchbook project via crafty-creativity where you are sent a sketchbook and choose a theme, then complete the sketchbook in your own way and it gets exhibited in a tour. For more information click here. It sounds like a great way of showing off work to people all over the world that might not necessarily get to see your blogs etc and it will be permanently held at the Brooklyn Art Library too! I've just ordered mine!

Liberate your Art

I have just signed up to the Liberate your Art postcard swap after reading about it on GiddyUp. Have a read as it is a great opportunity for artists out there wanting to share their art and build up your collections of artwork etc.

The idea is to produce 5 postcards of artwork and send them to Kat (the organiser), after she has collected all the postcards from the participants, she'll mix them up and send each person 5 postcards back not including their own. Can't wait to start sending and receiving arty postcards!