Mail Me Some Art - Found Poetry

I decided to guest host an MMSA exchange with the theme of Found Poetry.

I didn't participate in the exchange myself, however I was fortunate enough to receive bonus cards from Susan

and from Laurie. 

Both arrived on 'Big Mail Monday'. In these great painted and rubber-stamped envelopes.

The added bonus of hosting one of these swaps is the wonderful selection of envelopes swappers send their postcards in. It was also great to see several first-time swappers, including Rachael who takes part in Jean's envelope exchanges.

From Eric:

From Rachael:

From Veebee and from Constance:

From Gail:

From Honi:

From Judith:

From Laima:

From Lynn:

The idea of MMSA is to send postcards through he mail, however Andrea's were sent to her in this envelope with a few added artistamps.

Inkblot Mondays part 8

It's time for another inkblot. This one is from Veebee.

What do you see in the inkblot? And the underlying photo is Mr Rorschach himself - does he remind you of anyone?

I'll be back in a week to share my thoughts.

Here is what I thought about last week's inkblot.

Inkblot Mondays part 7

It's time for another inkblot. This one is from Mary.

What do you see?

I'll be back in a week to share my thoughts.

Last week's inkblot is here.

Inkblot Mondays part 6

It's time for another inkblot. This one is from Beau.

What do you see?

I'll be back in a week to share my thoughts.

To see what I thought of last week's inkblot, click here.

Inkblot Mondays part 5

It's time for another inkblot.

What do you see?

I'll be back in a week to share my thoughts.

A link to last week's inkblot.

Inkblot Mondays part 4

It's time for another inkblot.

What do you see?

I'll be back in a week to share my thoughts.

Here is last week's ink.

MMSA Type styles

For this MMSA challenge postcards had to include 4 different styles of type. Can you identify the ones I used?

And here are the great cards in from Andrea, Ellen, Lynne and Wanda.

Inkblot Mondays part 3

It's time for another inkblot.

What do you see?

I'll be back in a week to share my thoughts.

A link to last week's ink blot.

Bonus - the envelope in which I sent my inkblots to the host, Honi:

Inkblot Mondays part 2

It's time for another inkblot.

What do you see?

I'll be back in a week to share my thoughts.

Here's last week's inkblot.

Inkblot Monday, part 1

For the next several Mondays I'm going to be showing the inkblots that I sent in and received for an MMSA challenge titled 'Rorschach on the Fold'.

Hopefully you'll play along and share what you see in the inkblots. 

I'll be back in a week to see what you thought, and to share what my brain came up with.

Reconnecting via repetition & variation

Remember under M is for MMSA? Here is the missing repetition & variation swap postcard.

Turns out it was a) delivered to the sender, and b) the sender was Jan H, who I used to exchange mail art with, but haven't since 2014. So it arrived quite a bit later than the other three cards.

Jan sent the returned card to me in this awesome painted envelope.

And she included this intriguing piece titled Blur.

Great to 'see you in my mailbox' Jan, even if it was through a postal misadventure.

When was the last time you reconnected with someone through the mail? Did you initiate it, or did they?

Mail Me Some Art

Mail Me Some Art (MMSA) is a group that swaps (mostly) postcard art. All submissions are sent to a central host along with postage and address labels, and she (or he) then swaps the cards and sends them out. This resolves the issues that sometimes occur in direct swaps when somebody doesn't hold up their end of the bargain for whatever reason.

The other great part about MMSA, is that all levels and kinds of art are welcomed and appreciated.

Each challenge set has a theme. Here are two I participated in recently. I send in 4 cards for the swap, and as a thank you to the host, a 5th bonus one for them.

1. Repetition and variation

Here are the cards I sent out - I was inspired by Naomi's triangles (which I learned about from Eva). I painted them using inktense pencils, I think hers turned out better than mine, although they did look a lot brighter in person compared to the scans.

And here are the ones I received from Esther, Lois & Iryna.

2. Paper strips

This is one of my favorite challenges to date. The top 4 (Face Off I-IV) went into the exchange, the 5th one (The Twins) was for the host, Honi.

And here are the interesting cards that arrived in my mailbox from Barb, Cheryl, Penny & Wanda.

If you've been paying attention to how MMSA works, you'll have noticed that I only received 3 back for the repetition & variation challenge. The fourth one had a misadventure, and will be featured under another letter of the alphabet.

Have you ever participated in a swap of any kind? How did it work out? Did you have fun?

MMSA sticker mania

This challenge required creating art using predominantly stickers - birds from Charley Harper, and insects from Christopher Morley.

The ones I sent in for the swap, plus one for the host.

And the ones that came in from Ellen, Faith, Honi and Constance.

Fruit stickers in

And these are the MMSA fruit sticker cards I received.

From Mary

From Dorothea and Sarah

And my favorite of the bunch from Rose.

 

Fruit sticker postcards out

MMSA had a fruit sticker postcard challenge. I sent these faces in, using the banana stamp Linda sent me ages ago.

And a bonus one for the host, Laurie.