#431 - Collage

A Handmade RR. 

Received

From sausome

I really like this card. I don't know If sausome was inspired by the fact that I work with microbiology in arthropods, but I am reminded of it. right down to the curious cat :D

  

From iwritedeb:

A fishing themed collage. I really like the stamps making it seem like some official document that has been through a lot

From barbie3000:

a very nice collage. I like the sensuous and decadent mood of it.

I also really enjoy these matching stamps:

Sent

For Sausome

For iwritedeb

This collage was inspired by Deb's word of the year: Venture.

it combines an image of an American astronaut on a spacewalk with some beautiful tulips drawn by the amazing late 1600 scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian

For barbie3000

Inspired by Barbra's love of body art, this collage shows an illustration of the lymphatic system and a solar eclipse seen from the moon.

#406 - It's raining

A new Handmade RR. 

From Alienne:

A sweet rainy autumn day. The girl with the umbrella is glued on the background, giving sort of a 3D effect.

From skl:

A really cute drawing! and a nice touch with the house reflected in the puddle.

From eline9:

                       

when you shake this card, the confetti moves around like colorful rain :)

Sent

for Alienne:

for Skl:

for Eline9:

painted onto a print of Magritte's "Golconde", with inspiration from The Weathergirls

#370 - Geometric

A new Handmade RR. Taebbig came up with the theme.

From Alienne:

I like Alienne's mixed media technique, and the bright colors.

"let's connect" makes me think of connecting dots and lines which fits really well with the theme. 

I also really appreciate the Otto Dix stamp :)

From taebbig:

This is such a good take on the theme, simple and effectful.

taebbig wrote this at a Postcrossing meeting in Berlin, so it is signed by a lot of different postcrossers. fun :)

From Jacqcoen

                           

                            

This geometric fish from Jacquelynn reminds me of a patchwork quilt. I like how the different patterns come together, and how edged geometric shapes combine to form something organic.

As always, I'm enjoying the pretty stamps.

Sent to Alienne, Jacqcoen and taebbig:

I really liked this theme, and ended up doing these 3 cards featuring Platonic solids and the Penrose triangle.

I may do a blog post on some of these things in the future. I like the intersection of strict mathematical logic and mystical symbolism.

#350 - Spiders

My third Handmade RR. I came up with the theme for this one. I work with spiders, and I'm trying to cure my arachnophobia.


From Alienne:

Alienne has drawing talent, and she painted the background with coffee.

I love this one!

From taebbig:

taebbig has sewn this on to a leather-ish fabric. It's so well made and I love the idea and the tiny googely eyes on the spider :D

From VickiKamalova:

                           

                            

Vicki made this great halloween themed card which has a crochet flower in the middle.

She also made  a bookmark with a picture of a beautiful piece of spider jewelery. I love it, and I am using it already

Sent to taebbig, VickiKamalova and Alienne

These cards were my first try with watercolors. I also tried to show the cute side of spiders.Although if I have to be a little biology-geeky about it, spiders with this kind of eyes (jumping spiders), do not actually make this kind of web. Purple card is painted on a page from a Danish translation of the book Catwatching (1986) by Desmond Morris, which has many of these nice cat drawings by Edward Coleridge

Double Alice

I received two Alice in Wonderland postcards today.

This one if from the very sweet medusa242, who saw my rant about the new Danish postage prices on the postcrossing forums, and offered to send any Dane a card, expecting nothing in return.
I have made her a card though, I am just waiting for the opportunity to send it from Germany.

This one is an official postcrossing card FI-2775710 from Tiina in Finland, just happened to land in my mailbox on the same day as the one above. yay for Alice!

#346 - Mushrooms

My second Handmade RR.

From Nannie/siori

Cute origami mushrooms :) unfortunately the card got a bit of a beating in transit, Lovely stamps.

From Kibele

A bit unorthodox for a "postcard" but I love it! this wonderfully creative envelope contained a bag of stamps and stickers that I can use for making cards in the future.

From VickiKamalova

a lovely mixed media background and a mushroom fairy.

Sent Cards

For Nannie

Norwegian mushroom stamps on an illustrated forest floor. The stamps are held in place by cuts in the paper, and are easily detachable in case a collector wants them.

For Kibele

Sulfur mushrooms illustrated by N.Norvil for the book Svampe - haandbog for begyndere i svampeplukning(1943), The background is from an Alex Grey calendar print of the oil painting Dying(1990). Alex Grey is inspired by hallucinogenic substances, such as the psilocybin in "magic mushrooms".

For VickiKamalova

Marshrooms

Science guy quote

Postcard made by jenniloveshockey on Postcrossing.com. I really like the use of stamps, and it's such a great quote.

To the moon and back

DK-50699 I made this card from a Hans Scherfig painting and an illustration of the Apollo 11 mission. For a postcrosser who likes tapirs

#340 - Cinema

These cards are from my first round robin (RR) on the Prostcrossing forums. I wanted an excuse to make more cards so I joined this Handmade RR thread. RRs work like this: You join a small group agreeing on a theme, and then you send postcards with that theme to all other members in the group. The Handmade RR groups are usually 4 people, so you send 3 cards and receive 3 cards.

Sent cards

for jacqcoen(Arizona, US):

Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction. staring out of my homemade movie theater. I was going for sort of an old school cinema feel with the red and gold.

for Mosshumla(Sweden):

Charlie Chaplin (in The Gold Rush) and a real life filmstrip from the trailer of an Austrian movie called "Hotel". If you hold the card up to the light, one of the frames in the filmstrip can be seen clearly.

for VickiKamalova(Russia):

An illustrated movie poster of Danish silent film actress Asta Nielsen. I didn't do that much on this one, just framed it in film strip (colored black to look more like film strip, the real color on the edges is an ugly see-through brownish color). Those white lines going around are the soundtracks :D

Received cards

from jacqcoen(Arizona, US):

Picture is not so good because of reflections in the lamination. But great card based on her latest trip to the movies with her kids :D I also loved the stamps

from VickiKamalova(Russia):

Audrey Hepburn with a very colorful and fun background. I really like the technique Vicki has used to make this, And it made it through the post with no damage at all. (I put all my cards in envelopes because I was scared they'd fall apart)

 from Mosshumla(Sweden):

I love this card! it's inspired by the 1958 movie version of The Fly. The spider is beautiful, I love how its legs are hugging the back of the card. The web is made of thread (must have been difficult to glue on!) and that little face on the fly is both scary and hilarious. The stamps are really nice too.

I put this card on the wall in my office. I work with spiders, and I think this will be the start of a little exhibition of spider related postcards.