Wednesday, June 11, 2025

May 2025 iHanna Post Card Swap - made by me

 I wanted to work with a fine stencil and use acrylic paint on the background. I decided to draw a mail box. It's really sad that they are constantly disappearing. The post office says it's because they keep getting broken into.  So, now we need to park and go into the post office to mail a letter OR leave it out for the letter carrier.  That works and it is convenient, but it feels like there could be issues. For instance, the letters/cards could be dropped or lost.  Although, a letter carrier is a professional! 

I added some cutouts from peel and stick wallpaper that I designed and used a few ink stamps. There are some duplicates below. The idea of dots and squares of different sizes is interesting to me. So I played with that a bit. I just ordered more wall paper swatches of the wonky white squares on a colored background in different sizes.







May 2025 iHanna Post Card Swap - received

 Here are the cards I have received this May/June:

Becky in Nebraska



Hilde in Norway

Sandy in British Columbia, Canada





Linda from California

Polly from Ohio and Tina from Minnesota

Monica from California

Tessa from Arizona

Roxanne from Connecticut

So pretty!  And finally, here is number 10 from Florida:

Thanks everyone!




Saturday, November 23, 2024

My postcards for the November 2024 iHanna Swap

 

My postcards. I used direct ink, ink on tissue paper, acrylic paint, gloss medium and metallic markers. I'm not crazy about the way the gloss medium interacts with the ink. I need to remember this! So that I don't do it again. I hope I have something new to explore next time.

November 2024 iHanna Postcard Swap

 

Michelle - no location or email!


I love the message. There is a tapping meditation I do when I'm feeling down that has an emphasis on being enough.

Cornwall, England



Mesa, Arizona


Prescott, Arizona.  The envelope is as fancy as the card!

Postcards that I made for the May 2024 iHanna Swap

 

These didn't turn out exactly as I had hoped. Using heavy watercolor paper with inks and coating it with gloss medium. Puffy metallic paint. I made the stencil.  

Postcards for May 2024 iHanna Swap

 I am finally getting around to show the postcards I received from the May 2024 swap. Lots of fun!

From Austria

Illinois, Minnesota, and Massachusetts

Florida, Bakersfield, Missouri, and San Diego

Brooklyn, NY

Sunday, May 28, 2023

iHanna Postcard Swap 2023



Continuing the tradition, I am posting the postcards I made for the iHanna postcard swap. This was for Spring 2023. I used spray ink and stencils for the background, and a paintbrush with ink for the portraits. It's very fun, but I paint them freehand. If I would pencil them in first, I'd make fewer mistakes, I imagine. Work without a net!

I've received seven cards so far. These are from Wenatchee, Washington; Columbus, OH; Orlando, FL

San Antonio, TX and Rhode Island

Another from San Antonio and one from France!


Las Vegas and Austin, Texas - Numbers 8 and 9:

And the 10th postcard arrived from Arizona: