An invitation to collaborate - a response

Remember Brenda's invitation to collaborate?

This is what I eventually added.

Back and front...

Inside...

And sent back in envelope 129. I even used a trick from MailArtMartha's playbook and reused the return address label.

An invitation to collaborate?

The last time Bertha sent me something I used it in collage for a different recipient.

This time I haven't quite decided what to do with it.

I do like the idea of using a commercial card as the basis for collaboration, something I haven't thought about much in mail art.

Bertha, Adèle and John

Bertha sent me this commercial card, unsolicited, no message on it, just a return address.

She has sent out  a lot of cards to people in similar fashion, occasionally with a greeting. This generated a lot of discussion over at IUOMA.

I did send a reply to Bertha, and I used the card to create a 6-part collage which I sent to Adèle over the course of a week. Hopefully they'll all make it, as I wrote the message in 6 separate parts, only adding my name on part 6 :)

Where does Jon fit in? The rest of the scorpion is made of pieces of ephemera (aka junk) that he sent me. The background is courtesy of a USPS mailing.