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It is time once again for Kat Sloma’s Liberate Your Art Postcard Exchange. I have participated every year, since the beginning in 2011. Kat’s exchange was one of the very first places I dared to share my art. There is still one day to sign up and the deadline to mail your cards is March 14, 2015. Join us!
Artists in any medium. Photography, painting, poetry, typography, jewelry, sculpture, knitting, cooking, illustration – you name it. If you can have an image of your art printed on a postcard, you are in!
You send 5 printed postcards of your art with a message written on the back, along with address labels and return postage. Kat and her crew of volunteers swap them around, and you receive 6 postcards in the mail over several weeks: 5 from participants, plus one from Kat!
You can have your cards printed professionally, or make them yourself. I always make mine.
I printed the images on photo paper, and the back of the post card is on card stock. I set them up on a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper (in Publisher). Four to a sheet. Next I will attach the fronts to the backs, and trim as needed. Double sided tape and a paper-cutter makes assembly easy peasy! ( I blurred the message so it will be a surprise.)
I make extras and a lot of us do swaps on the side. I will share the cards I receive with you as they come in.
YAY snail mail!
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Looks like lots of fun, Sheila!
Say… have a question for ya…how come when you leave a comment at my blog, then when I click on your name I am sent to your blogger profile page. Then once on the blogger profile page there is no place for me to click on to get to your blog so that I can comment here on your blog page??
Anyways, hope you are having lots of fun creating!
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I have no clue… I am not on blogger. Thanks for letting me know Joan. I need to fix that. Hmmm?
Hello Sheila,
Nice to meet you via LYA 2015! This is my 3rd year, and I can hardly wait! Aloha from frigid New York!
Hi Vicki! So glad you joined the swap! I look forward to it every year 🙂 Hope the snow melts soon!
They are a lovely idea, Sheila, I used to do a lot of mail art, but stopped quite a while ago. I still treasure the things I received!
Thanks so much Rolina. I have been involved in a few mail art groups. I have saved all of my cards too.
That is a great project! Do they have to be printed or can they be the original piece of work?
They should be printed, I do mine at home on photo paper. 🙂
Wonderful cards and great swap, Sheila. Glad to see you are staying artfully busy!
I am working on a few projects, just nothing to post quite yet. Hope you are feeling inspired as well Sandy 🙂
They look lovely!
Thanks Vivayne! 🙂
Thanks Sheila. Will do.
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I don’t know anyone who actually uses postcards anymore but this sounds like a fun way to collect other people’s art. Your’s look like they are very cheerful. I look forward to seeing what you get back.
That is one of the things that is fun about it Val. Keeping something from the past alive. And think about how many people might see it before it arrives… maybe there are a few smiles along the way 🙂