Warning - bad puns ahead

Time to show the results of my recent postcard making spree.

I mailed out 26 postcards last week and I'm almost caught up on my mail.

One bunch was made from all the collage goodies Steph sent me:

look at that jam packed box of goodies!

 I made some big collages and cut them up

added some paint and text:

and now here begins a series of bad pun cards:

The next cards were made on spray painted backgrounds.  

On a particularly glorious Saturday I set up a spray paint station in the back yard:

 Here are some close up shots of a few pieces

and some of the postcards made from those sheets:

"What did the hat say to the hat rack?"  Learned that joke from my grandmother.  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

I made this one for the farmer at my meat share.

Kristin, you can add this to your chicken joke arsenal.

(that's me sitting on top of my first car in 1989 )

  

And then there are the distressed magazine page backgrounds I was talking about in my last post.

Thanks to Steph for pointing me to this tutorial.

(see the video by Katie Kendrick here)

Here are a few sheets of collaged magazines - I add layers of ink and paint on top.

Some of the more serious and pretty cards using this technique:

and then my favorites in the bad pun series:

You guys have left so many wonderful jokes on my Zine Giveaway post, I feel another series of postcards coming on. (you've been warned)

You still have a few more days to leave me a joke and enter to win the zines!