Together with my usual mirrored comic book slide (this time featuring Superman instead of my beloved Wonder Woman), I experimented with a different concept and came up with this ‘What can you see?’ slide, allowing Andy to see whatever he wants through the little frame.

I’ve been working on a few more transparent slides, and ones where I incorporate the original film into the piece, so expect some more of them soon. I seem to find it so much easier to create Arty Slides rather than postcards or envelopes – probably because the limited space leaves little room to get over-involved or overly busy.

INCOMING

My mailbox has been a little bit mental this week! And I mean that in a very good way.

The Haptic Werewolf struck Wales with this card from the wonderful Erni Bär. Loving the the little comic illustration, not so sure about the (terrifying) clown! Our cards may have passed each other in the post (hopefully with a high-five).

New friend Boo Cartledge is a girl after my own heart, sending me this fabric covered postcard that made me think of cotton dresses and the little cotton  hankies I was forced to take to school as a child. I love the juxtaposition of that with the message ‘Balls-to-the-Wall Fun’. It’s like me ‘then and now’. Fab.

Jon Foster, another new IUOMA friend, sent me this wonderful card made using sticky tape to transfer words and graphics onto a black and white illustration of a boat. This is one of those pieces that you have to study to really find all of the details. It’s reminded me of so many techniques I used in art school involving photocopies and masking tape that I’d forgotten about… until now! A real inspiration.

Mim Golub Scalin sent me a lovely congratulatory card for being the 100th member of the Mailart 365 group, which really made me smile. I’m loving the turquoise ink! Unfortunately it lost some weight on the way over……

Mim sent me a photo of how it looked before its journey, and a few of the words had, indeed, gone astray.

So, instead of saying ‘had been interested intensely private, peeking faintly in the summer’, it now reads ‘had been interested peeking faintly in’.

It’s funny how different the message becomes when just a couple of words are removed, and I think I like it even more because of that.

Patrice Keats was the recipient of a little welcome package that I send to new IUOMA members sometimes, which is a tiny decorated/painted envelope with old stamps, stickers etc. inside for them to use on their own Mail Art. I also enclose one of my mini-cards with this blog’s address on the back so that they can find out more about me. Patricia is the first to reply to one of these packages, and incorporated many of the things I sent her into the  piece – the stickers adorned the back of the card, but I particularly like how she re-used my mini-card into the composition of the main image, with the blue lines of my design actually making  up a portion of the flower pot’s outline. Great stuff Patricia, thank you!

My second Arty Slides package arrived this week, this time from PrettyLily in the USA. Simple, but very pretty and tactile, I’m loving this new form of Mail Art. They came wrapped in some lovely printed paper, and I’ll be reusing that very soon.

And finally, as a thank you from Kathy at the Letter Writers Alliance for taking part in a recent request for members’ information, I received this lovely, elegant letterpressed postcard.

Phew! What a week! I hope you enjoy seeing all of this Mail Art as much as I enjoy sending and receiving it. I’m now at number 30 of my 365 challenge. It’s going to be a busy year!