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Response: Thats a random collage of magazines, paint, stamping etc with some tissue to knock it down. It was super busy for a background at first. I collect a bunch of discarded cavellini calendars for the artwork.
Response: Love Bujold, but I find Miles a bit annoying. Love all the Pendrics Travels books, Five Gods, and Children of the Knife books better. Enjoy!
Response: The veggie beds are empty but the pots are full of succulents. Something I can successfully grow!
Response: All the bike stamps are commercial one. I just can't make those tiny spokes look right!
Response: Freshly bought silk paints, and dumpster-found Marvy fabric markers. A partial set with brush tip, or chisel tip. It helped my sloppy resist drawing skills! Glad you liked the silk bike PC.
Response: Glad you liked my monkey relief print. Black and blue makes him look less happy, tho....
Response: Glad you liked the postcard. For any vintage USPS stamps, check out Ebay!
Response: Thanks so much for your bee postcard in return. Although your bee looks a bit more angry than mine! Lovely collage pc.
Response: Every time I make a collage with a mouse on it, there is always something bad about to happen to it....like a big owl about to swoop down. Luckily this mouse has a snug mouse-hole to hide in!
Response: I stamped the soft block carving of the owl on to the shorthand book page, and then added the watercolor crayons and water over it.
Response: Thank goodness! I was hoping the ram #2 card had not been lost in a snow storm. I use the Speedball water based inks, but I blame the old book page for the weird fading. I printed more with red first, and then black, and all went fine.
Response: Glad you like the recycled collage postcard. That's the last scrap from my ripped up solar print-gone-wrong.
Response: Funny! I hear Jan's voice in my head saying "Poooodle,poooodle" with that east coast drawl....miss you guys!
Response: Glad you liked the Cheshire cat stamp set. Hope you can make it align properly. It's a bit tricky.....
Response: Glad you liked it. That old Mother Goose book page from 1915 was pretty fragile, so I went over-board with the tape! Thanks for the heart.
Response: The hand clip art book from Ebay was SOOOOO smelly, I scanned in the pages I liked and threw it in the attic to bake for a few months. Now I just print out the hands on to tissue as needed.
Response: Glad you and the three dogs are enjoying it!
Response: Glad you liked the Bun-Mail! Thanks for the heart.
Response: I still have Bright Lights chard in the garden, but the Ruby chard color looked better in the painting. Thanks for the heart!
Response: Glad you like it, and thanks for the heart. Hope you are inspired to give eraser carving a try.
Response: Glad you like it. I almost had the envelope addressed to Mr. Toad, but got my lettering back-wards!
Response: Thanks for the heart, and glad you liked the record album postcard. Yes, that is an unusual wood-grain security envelope from junk mail!
Response: Thanks for the heart. So glad you like your splattery rooster postcard!
Response: Thanks for the heart. Happy Easter ( eggs and all!)
Response: Glad you like the lavender bookplate. Looking forward to seeing mine!
Response: Thanks for the Heart. Glad you like the bird and map postcard.
Response: Thanks for the Heart. I just got your Fall Leaves letter today! Tree Love all around!
Response: Ack! Another mod podge glue accident! Thanks for letting me know.
Response: Not all that fancy - one block had the black lines, one block had the blue background, and one I hand colored for the yellow and brown. Glad you liked it!
Response: I'm so glad you are willing to overlook my embarrassing mistakes, and give me a heart!
Response: Thanks for accolades. I knew a letter writing bat would make your day! ( I hope "plotzing" is a good thing?)
Response: The ONLY people who dig in my garden are "strange ladies"!
Response: Lots of acrylic gel medium on that one. I hope it is sturdy enough.
Response: Sorry my Spring postcard couldn't bring good weather with it. Yes, that's a home-made collage postcard.
Response: Max is a hand carved stamp made of a soft carving block like Master carve. I use speedball block printing ink, to get extra dark black.
Response: We donate dumpster art supplies to SCRAP, and then run around to the front to buy stuff! My sister gave a trash basketry class at RAFT ( the S.J. SCRAP )
Response: All my postcard collages are made with rescued papers, books, and magazines. As in, rescued from the trash, dumpster, recycle bin, and other places I scavenge.
Response: You must have liked it, if you are showing it off at work! Thanks for the heart!
Response: Glad you liked it. I can't help re-using all the postal stamp stuff I get. Thanks for the heart!
Response: Glad you liked the little box of bones!
Response: Guess what?! Another postcard is on the way!
Response: So glad you liked your Art Journal page from the FUTURE! It was fun to make, too. I recommend Ebay for all the fun postage stamps!
Response: So glad you like the robot, spaceship and asteroid eraser carvings. They were fun to make.
Response: Thanks for the heart. Good to know the lotus postcard didn't get lost.
Response: Isn't it fun to get trans-pacific art supplies in the mail?? I knew you were having trouble getting the master-carve blocks, and you have been making such fun eraser carvings, I knew you would put them to good use. Enjoy!!
Response: Thanks for getting back to me. I was afraid your little frog was lost!
Response: You see how, even in a scanned postcard swap, I couldn't help but collage SOMETHING!
Response: I liked drawing them, but, too bad I can't read Hieroglyphics!
Response: Thanks for the heart. That was my first swap to Mexico.
Response: They stamped it "return to sender"? No wonder it took so long to get up to you! I would NEVER mess with the mail like that!
Response: Thanks for the heart. I will message you with all the details!
Response: We have to enjoy our February gardens, since the rest of the county is buried under the snow!
Response: I use a frozen food box panel for my backing. It's sturdy enough to survive the USPS and Royal Mail postcard mangling machines.
Response: I'm guessing it was the scanned re-send that finally arrived. Somewhere out in the world, the original collage postcard is floating, trying to find Finland!
Response: Glad you liked the card. I'm inspired to try some more for my Christmas card this year. Thanks!
Response: That was my first try with Yupo, but it is fun to paint on.
Response: So glad you like the Hawk-zilla postcard with bad luck black cat postage stamp. I'm a Sci-Fi and blueprint nerd, myself!
Response: I'm glad it finally arrived! I'm glad you like it, but I'm not trying to be an over-achiever. I just thought these few mailart things would be fun. I have been re-reading the Good Mail Day book ,a lot!
Response: Thank goodness it passed the customs police! My postal guy had some trouble with the new over-seas customs forms. Now I can post my photo on flickr!
Response: Glad you like my alternate world history, where the dinosaurs got to the Moon first!
Response: All three of my cats qualify as "black and whites" ( sort of! )
Response: Oh great! It arrived, finally. I was worrying about the postal strike in the UK.
Response: The eraser carved faux postage stamps with carved edges were made before I discovered the extra gummed paper at the edges of a postage stamp sheet. I still use them as rubber stamps, too.
Response: Glad your fishy postcard arrived safely.
Response: I just kept searching for pink postage!
Response: I'd love to see what your inner landscape looks like. The old low value postage stamps are from Ebay. Some are rare, but most sell for about face value.
Response: Thanks for the heart. I'm glad you liked your butterfly. My postcards are mostly made on recycled frozen lunch boxes. Like Lean Cuisine, or Eating Right. All my workmates save them for me now.
Response: Thanks for the heart Kathleen. Too bad the original collage card was lost overseas.
Response: I'm not really sure WHAT that box was from...don't lick the white powder!
Response: Now, I admit that every one interprets art in their own way, but I'd rather not think about bare bottoms on the grass. Is that the baby's Mom or the irresponsible baby sitter? Wow, some one has been reading too many Harlequins!
Response: I kept trying to make a joke with the word knit...knit...nit! And that's how I came up with nit ( baby louse ) ONE pearl.
Response: I keep hearing the theme music from Jaws.....budump....budump....budump....
Response: I was hoping you were OK with snakes. Thanks for the heart!
Response: It was a lot easier to doodle a swan than to doodle a salamander!
Response: I've had the spicy eggplant curry in an Indian restaurant before, too. They called it Eggplant Bhartha.
Response: I'm glad my little butterfly postcard survived the trip Down Under, in one piece.
Response: Glad you liked your frozen Trader Joe's Chinese Sesame Chicken postcard.
Response: Hope my space humor wasn't TOO scatological!
Response: I was afraid Chinese fish head and okra soup might be TOO bizarre. Thanks for the heart!
Response: Just like Australia, I can only send you un-natural materials ( to Canada). Glad you appreciated the chemical humor.
Response: Wow! Another coincidence. Too bad the swallowtail butterfly didn't survive, but she might live on in your art.
Response: I can only throw the snails, because I refuse to pick up slugs with my bare hands. But I teach all the snails to FLY!
Response: Wow! That is some coincidence. I have one or two copies that I found in the library dumpster. This one had the nicest printing, but the cover has mangled. Glad you liked the postcard.
Response: Since your profile was a blank, I just had to guess about what kind of things you would like.
Response: Glad the postcard made it to England safely!
Response: Thanks so much! I'm enjoying the all color block print technique.
Response: So glad the fish and diver made the trip down under all right! Thanks for the heart!
Response: I'm happy you like the geometry and tulips collage card.
Response: I'm not sure a raven mask counts as bizarre, but I wanted to send it anyway!
Response: A fast trip to Grass Valley for Ganesha! Glad you like the collage postcard. I recommend letting everything dry under some books, to make the postcards smooth and flat.
Response: My library, and The Friend's of the Library charity, dump in the same place. Easier to search!
Response: I scavenge some of the used postage stamps from the college dumpsters, but the brand new 1960's postage stamps come from Ebay!
Response: I love to share with other printmakers. Glad you liked your green-green postcard.
Response: I'm happy you liked it, and I'm hoping all the family is feeling better, by now.
Response: Hi Sue, I have a great collection of dumpster-rescued old gardening books, too. Those 70's houseplant books are really funny! It is always worth it to rescued an old book!
Response: Hey Stella, glad you liked it! It's made with a napkin over the book page. I could not find a good clip art cupcake for you, but tea seemed appropriate!
Response: Uh oh....I was just kidding about the skull talking and the jealousy and the crying. It was really bad French poetry, so I felt justified cutting it into pieces. I'm glad you liked it, but don't take it too seriously!
Response: This card had to wait awhile for the right home.
Response: I'm so glad you liked it. Now...if I could just figure out what the "breadboard use only" stamp means....
Response: Had some trouble finding your pirates. But I have a HUGE scrap paper pile!
Response: I love sending things to people who are so appreciative! Thanks for the five and the heart.
Response: I'm glad you liked the butterfly and eggplant postcard. Once I started making fish postcard, I just kept going and had too many spares. I'll bet the fish motif is all around you, there at the beach.
Response: I thought you might like something a little Italian.
Response: Thanks for the heart! I'm happy that heavy old book cover survived the trip.
Response: I'm glad you liked your owl card, and he made it Down Under in good shape! Thanks for the heart!
Response: Thanks for the heart and the encouragement! I'm glad the Lenore Tawney-inspired postcard found a good home.
Response: Glad you like the recycled book cover. It was heavier and stiffer than I thought it would be, so I hope the post office treated it well.
Response: No, Thank YOU for the heart! I hope your lilacs are blooming up a storm!
Response: Glad you liked it. Thanks for the heart!
Response: Glad you like toads and their toadstools.
Response: Thanks for the heart. I chose the most arty quote card for the art gallery director.
Response: Thanks for the heart. I made three or four Lenore Tawney inspired postcards in a row. Due to re-reading her mailart book late at night!
Response: Heirloom tomatoes to the Aggie inspector? Coal to Newcastle?
Response: Don't even own a "forever" stamp!
Response: Glad you liked it, and thanks for the heart. I love those tropical ginger flowers.
Response: Yeay! Thanks for the heart. I like the quick trip to Canada, too.
Response: Glad you liked it, and thanks for the heart!
Response: Good thing little Miss Spring-time snuck by the prudes at the Post Office!
Response: Thanks for the heart! As you can tell, my garbage art ain't junk! At least not after I'm done with it...
Response: Somehow I knew a mom with a young boy would appreciate an exercising T-Rex postcard!
Response: Thanks for the heart! I've collected some really strange old medical books from the library dumpster!
Response: The nice still life of tropical fruit was better than the still life of the dead child!
Response: I'm so glad the postcard finally made it to Finland, after it's little side trip. The Finland's Independence stamp is from 1967 ( before you were born! ). I get the old sheets of postage stamps on Ebay. Thanks for the heart! Now I can show that postcard's oddness on Flickr.
Response: Thanks for tracking down my missing postcard to Finland. Glad you liked Mr. Salamander goes to Eastern Europe!
Response: Thanks for the heart! I hoped you would like a Southwestern theme set of stairs.
Response: My teenager has a bit of the gazelle to her, too!
Response: Thanks for the heart!
Response: I usually print out the first page of a profile, but I had to hunt a bit on yours to find the butterfly and recycling in the "likes" category.
Response: OOOOoooo...deep in the canyons...the canyons so red....little fish swimming....with big teeth in their heads....sing with me!
Response: Somehow I thought you might like a Day of the Dead postcard!
Response: I didn't realize Pug Postage was so rare until I began my search for yours. Glad you like them.
Response: Well, at least it arrived in time for Chinese New Year. Happy Year of the Ox!
Response: I started to worry about this one. Thought maybe the light bulb had gotten lost!
Response: I learned the napkin trick from Farstarr. They have a nice article about paper napkin collage in ClothPaperScissors last month. I use acrylic gel medium in matte.
Response: I use acrylic gel medium in matte, so it doesn't show. I go over the top only if I'm worried about the delicate papers. I figure the post office will keep my mailart dry.
Response: This is what I live for! Now you can inspire all the kids you teach to make art from garbage, too!
Response: I can't resist sending you postcards with water birds and salamanders. ( Thank you California Herps!)
Response: Hi Dina, Glad you like the bug postcard. The fun colorful circles are from a tissue paper. Gift of Farrstar.
Response: Thanks for the heart. I'm glad the postcard arrived OK.
Response: Thanks! I was hoping it would arrive in Japan in time for New Years. Glad my Ox made you smile!
Response: Tiny, the mini dachshund says " yip!"
Response: Since you are in your summer, I sent fresh veggies from the garden I can only dream about. Glad you liked the beets and eggplant.
Response: Glad you liked my really really really big black cat.
Response: It's good to know it was an inside job. I was hoping your postman was not the problem.
Response: Thanks for the heart. I must have been thinking of dessert, since I gave you a tea cup and a cupcake eraser carving art stamps.
Response: I'm glad you like my painted interpretation of a Gee's Bend quilt.
Response: The space stamps are old, but I just bought them a few months ago on Ebay. Glad you liked your outer spacey postcard.
Response: I think you will see some of my resource rescue dumpster art soon. I'm in Recycling Rocks, too.
Response: I think I picked the quote for ME! I just thought you would appreciate some 1960's environmentalist's view of the future.
Response: Glad you liked it. Gardening is my favorite.
Response: Glad it survived the trip! Malaysia has the longest street addresses in the world!
Response: Glad the Elephant/crystal postcard made it all the way in one piece. Now I think "pom" is short for pomme de la terre or Irish (English?) potato.
Response: Wow! That was a quick trip. I was just in Alameda tonight for my Dad's birthday get-together. I could have hand delivered!
Response: Somehow, trees and forests and woods have always been included in my art. I spent a lot of time climbing them as a kid.
Response: Hi Sherry, Glad you liked my Tree card. Tom's a CalPoly grad in Enviro Eng. from 1982, but he didn't finish his Senior project until 1985. ( go figure!) His advisor lived in Arroyo Grande.
Response: I'm guessing your mail finally got forwarded to Penn. Thanks for the words of encouragement. Good luck at your new college!
Response: The bird book said the yellowhammer was a European flicker, but a flicker is more like a woodpecker in the USA.
Response: We were down to nothing but zebras or zebus.
Response: Couldn't think of anything macabre that started with a "Y".
Response: The secret is to use real stamps. I printed my eraser carving onto the selvage of a real sheet of postage stamps. They have gum already on them!
Response: It turns out that" virtual traveling" is even cheaper than sending a tiny gnome around the USA, through the post!
Response: Hi Barb! I find great discarded textbooks at my local library ( either on the give-away shelf, or in the dumpster!)
Response: That was a quick trip across country. Glad you liked it, and it arrived in one piece! I went with the beach theme, based on your swap name!
Response: This nightmare could be you, trapped in the cave with the bugs, or it could be you are the fly surrounded by spiders. They both sound creepy to me!
Response: Mister "Y" chromosome matches the "X" lady I made a few weeks ago.
Response: You know, it's my job to get the swap TO you. No matter how many detours the postcard takes. I'm glad it finally arrived, and the back-up is sure to follow soon. Glad you like the Pop art red postcard.
Response: Some dumpster treasures have to wait to find the right person to appreciate them. All the movie stuff was waiting for you!
Response: I thought the reading lady in the garden would match your profile!
Response: Somehow I knew you would like a Frida O'Keeffe stamp! I use the speedball tiny "V" gouge for all the details. But the real secret is...I take out my contact lenses so my 40-something eyes can get in really close for the detail work. Enjoy!
Response: Hope all is well at home. It looks like Fay went right over you.
Response: The 1956 dictionary did not have xeriscape either, but it's a common gardening word, especially out here in the dry Western States.
Response: Glad the re-send made it in one piece.
Response: I'm glad you liked the women on wallpaper postcard. I liked her so much, I made the grumpy lady into a rubber stamp.
Response: Re- sent scan of original collage card. (7/26/08). Glad the scan came through. With luck, the original will be knocked loose soon, and you will get sandpaper in the mail!
Response: I just knew you would like irises. They are my favorite flower. I'm glad it made it all the way intact.
Response: Glad it finally arrived. Usually the flight to London is a fast one, but this little bird took awhile.
Response: I remembered you had a small boy at home so I didn't send the naked lady postcards to you! ( V is for Venus )
Response: I'm running out of Alphabet birds, Swantje!
Response: Baked apples and lemon jello? You are braver than I am...
Response: Can't get enough of that Ultramarine Blue with Cadmium red/orange/yellow!
Response: The spacey rubber stamp image in the corner is really a Gustav Klimt-style stamp cube by Judikins.
Response: I'm glad you liked it! The color may not be that realistic, but I love that green/orange combo.
Response: I finally came up with a quilt postcard!
Response: Thanks for the heart. I hoped you liked classical plays as well as film.
Response: I'm really glad you liked your owl drawing postcard. I will get that on to the flickr site tonight, so I can show off!
Response: Robbie is WAY cooler than the Lost in Space Robot.
Response: Umber seemed like a good pigment for a brown postcard.
Response: Glad you liked it. Hope it made it to the Southern Hemisphere in good shape.
Response: I though she was on the safe side of those rifles.
Response: Wow! That was a fast trip to Malaysia.
Response: I'm glad you enjoyed it. "Q" was a tough letter...
Response: I hope the little watch parts survived. Check out the flickr scan to see what it looked like when I mailed it!
Response: Glad you liked it! The primative arti-stamp is an eraser carving stamped on postage stamp selvage. Pre-gummed.
Response: Sounds like a touch of Nick Bantock to me....
Response: I am completely OUT of bunny stamps...please forgive me for sending a hamster.
Response: I can just see that big sucker crispy fried in a bun....mmmmm.
Response: Wow, I didn't realize I have you for three swaps in a row! Glad you like them.
Response: The postage stamps can't be all that rare. I get them on Ebay for close to face value...
Response: Oh the Flickr digital photo? I'm having fun with the new camera!
Response: I'm glad you think I'm genial. It makes me even happier.
Response: Thanks for hosting the critter postcard swaps. I'm have fun!
Response: Glad you liked the coffee card. I will post it on my flickr site tonight. I have a few mailart hand-carved stamps I use a lot. Mail fish, mail snake, and mail bug are fun. Mailbox with letter is made on an actual eraser.
Response: You are the first printmaker partner I've had here on swapbot.
Response: Glad you liked the bunnies at the Golden Gate Bridge overlook.
Response: That's great! I never know if foam heart stickers will survive the USPS mangling machine.
Response: Glad you liked it. Kind of a medieval gambling heart card...
Response: I'm glad you like my work. A bit out of practise for the watercolor painting, since I became a garbage artist...
Response: I'm glad the Canadian Post came through. Have fun with the stuff!
Response: Wow, Pretty fast delivery to Netherlands! Glad the international postage was enough to stuff the envelope.
Response: I let the Hubbage enjoy his dumpster diving hobby because of the text book money, and he found me a Navajo rug once. Treasures!
Response: How you gush...now get out there and make your postcards!
Response: I feel your fear...Clorox is one of the scariest things I know.
Response: My Ebay postage stamp buying habit comes through! Salamanders for all!
Response: They were so skinny, I thought you might need more than one to journal in.
Response: Thanks! It made good time to Belgium. Happy New Year.
Response: I'm glad you liked the flute player. I haven't played much since high school. Lost my lip control...
Response: I think I keep sending you flowers...must branch out into other subjects with you.
Response: Wow, Only took a week to get to N.Z. Gives me hope for the mailings to Japan and Malaysia.
Response: I have no idea who that is, but yeah..handsome and scary.
Response: My first Joseph Cornell tribute postcard. I love the walnut wood grain and pale blue.
Response: Barb,
I'm glad you liked the "E" card. It was a flash back to all the trouble I used to get into in school for talking too much in the back row.
Response: Glad you liked them.
I made the paper recycling ATCs for the garbage art booth at the Maker Faire in San Mateo. I didn't want to come across as lecturing every one about recycling, and pollution, so I tried to make it "arty".
Response: Thanks for the heart. I have already posted on my flickr site, so go ahead and post it, too.
Response: I have a very bad Ebay postage stamp buying habit. Will get help after the next 10 auctions end....
Response: I knew I couldn't go wrong with a cat card...
Response: That dirt color goes with everything...
Response: Amazing number of great Boston Terrier stamps!
Response: She came out of watch ad, scary just like that!
Response: I got a little confused by the reference to a card with Whistler, so I just waited...
Response: I don't know how they got that glossy, smooth frosting back in the 1960's...
Response: You are most welcome! I love the wild Northern California coast, too.
Response: Glad the Royal Post came through. My Barbie went on to have a tough life in the G.I.Joe wars of the 70's.
Response: I hope Tigger's "friend" didn't disappear in a questionable way...
Response: That's a Narwhale. The horn is really a tooth, but it looks like a unicorn horn with a spiral. I think they live in the arctic area.
Response: Glad you like it. When I take off my contacts, I can get in real close for the carving. Otherwise, I can't carve details like that.
Response: Glad you liked it. "B" was very much for birds this time.
Response: I'm glad the postcard arrived safely in Israel, with zip code, too.
Response: Thanks so much. It was fun to make, too. I post on flickr after the cards are received, so now I get to show off my favorite "A" card!
Response: I am not much of an expert on doll undergarments. Thanks for the heart!
Response: Wow, now I have to meet up with you three at the Book Arts Fair!
Response: You knew what kind of cards you would get when you started this swap, didn't you?
Response: Thanks Domino..you make me blush.
Response: I have a bad Ebay postage stamp buying habit going...
Response: Glad you liked the extra stamps.
Response: Thanks for the kind words. The all red postcards were fun to make!
Response: Hi Cathy, I read the swap description and the example given was a car stamp, with a scenic background. So I assumed any stamp was allowed. I'm sorry if that wasn't what you wanted.
Response: You're Welcome! You are the only Goth-HelloKitty swapper I have found so far.
Response: Glad you like the recycled calendar page. I made a few ATC with color photos of birds on the black and white calendar landscapes too. Thanks for the advice too.
Response: Wow, That was a fast trip to Israel. Let me know if you want another packet of Chinese or Korean collage papers. My husband finds a lot at the local college. I love to spread his dumpster treasures around.
Carroll