collaborations

I've been involved in some great collaborations lately.
The card below was inspired by the Millennia Mail Art project started by the San Francisco based mail artist Tofu.
 

My "super mail artists" group decided to do something similar.  There were eight of us in the group and we each started a 6"x8" card, divided it into 8 segments and filled in one part before passing it along to the next person in the group.  The cards went round-robin style around the globe, starting last September, and mine has just come home to me.  I made the small collage in the upper left corner.


A rather spontaneous collaboration came after I sent Carroll this postcard:

 

She sent it back to me with these fabulous swirls all over it and I absolutely loved the idea of giving my card a second life.

So I sent her a background that looked like this and asked her to do something with it:

Here's what I got back:

 

I decided to combine the two:  I cut up parts of the swirly collaboration and added them to the blue/green collaboration , and added some paint and bits of napkin on top.  It's on it's way back to Carroll now.

 

Another amazing round robin project just wrapped up.

The Super Mailartists created a postcard zine.

We folded and stitched 5 pieces of cardstock into a booklet.  We then decorated one side as a postcard, taped the booklet shut and stamped and addressed the other side.

Here's what mine looked like after I got it back - you can see just a peek of the tantalizing pages within:

Here are the details:

This is what I sent to Kerri

 

Kerri made this page and sent it to Stewart

Stewart made this page and mailed it to Danielle

Danielle made this page and sent it to Jenny

Jenny made this page and sent it to Angie

Angie made this page and sent it to Mandy

Mandy made this page and sent it home to me!

 

This project was so much fun, a number of us have started another round!

Here's the cover of what I just sent off:

More collaborations are in the works, but I'll save them for another post.