Show us your handmade postcards and Mail Art

Speicher3 · October 26, 2020, 6:43pm

That’s fantastic @metlodyt! I like your postcards’ style!

metlodyt · October 26, 2020, 7:05pm

Thank you @Speicher3! I really like your Mail Disorder card! The overlapping stamps really tie it together. Have you made more?

Speicher3 · October 26, 2020, 7:39pm

Yes, I’ve made a lot of stuff, mostly with rubber stamps and paper snippets. Here’s another one:

Do you have more of your great Frankensteins?

Savagepink · October 26, 2020, 9:28pm

I like to combine postcard images and book images…

Cassiopheia · October 26, 2020, 9:30pm

Really interesting! The cutting would drive me crazy (especially the second card)

nekelin · October 26, 2020, 9:31pm

And another kind of Franken(stein)card.

poppypaper · October 27, 2020, 7:49am

I always decorate the back of my postcards. Sometimes, I barely have room left to write a message!

metlodyt · October 27, 2020, 7:49am

That is a great card @Speicher3! I love your whole SENT wall. Great humor and a sense for the odd and graphical. Really inspired me to make/send cooler postcards.

@Savagepink your collages are so good! Most of my cards are images I cut out of old books. I usually don’t do much with them, but your style is super inspiring!

@nekelin I love these! Glad to know I’m not the only mad postcard scientist. Do you get the card pieces from stamp collecting too?

Cassiopheia · October 27, 2020, 11:59am

Beautiful backsides! I’m always extra happy with something like that.

nekelin · October 27, 2020, 5:51pm

Thank you! Actually it’s an idea that had been floating around in my head for quite some time. I like making collages and I wanted to use all the cards that people send me to make something. First I started with cutting of the stamps, and then I was left with this other piece of card that I didn’t want to throw away. That’s when I started puzzling them together. The first ones I made were for World Postcard Day, to celebrate all the beautiful cards I had received so far.

They look beautiful!

(And I have to ask the following. We are talking about opening a new tag, the Decorated Wildcard Tag. This is where we talk about it. Would you be interested?)

poppypaper · October 27, 2020, 6:01pm

Thank you so much!

I just responded to support the tag. It sounds interesting, thanks for sharing!

poppypaper · October 27, 2020, 6:06pm

Aww, thank you so much
I love receiving decorated backs so I do the same for the people I send to

Savagepink · October 28, 2020, 3:11am

@metlodyt @nekelin I love what you are doing with your “Frankenstein” cards. I always think about what to do with my boxes of received cards. Now I have some more ideas!

Rayloo · October 28, 2020, 1:54pm

I did it with watercolor techniques with brush pens, sequins, heat embossing and masking pen.

cutetaiki · October 28, 2020, 3:10pm

I make postcard with crochet applique

Antich · October 28, 2020, 6:09pm

I used to have a lot of chiped and not in good condition stamps and then I started to make collages on postcards. Now, I don’t have any stamps to use, anyone have some chiped stamps for me?

If you are interested in one check here

Rayloo · October 29, 2020, 12:18am

So nice collage.
When you create your own cards, envelopes and all, you get a lot of scraps when you cut paper. I’m so glad I found this idea to recycle them with decorating envelopes instead of throwing all away. Great bloggers share so many ideas to use these pieces of paper.