Posts Tagged ‘Art Cards’

Drifting, Falling

Drifting, Falling, 1 May 2006. Collage

Drifting, Falling, 1 May 2006. Collage

One of them quickie ATCs I made just to get over a “gotta make stuff” fit. I had just bought a pack of gem-like leaf embellishments and I needed an excuse to use them pronto! Handmade paper and  vellum over patterned paper, topped off with a leaf embellishment and inkjet-printed text inspired by The Ocean Blue’s “Drifting, Falling”.

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Via Mermail

Via Mermail, 1 May 2006. Collage.

Via Mermail, 1 May 2006. Collage.

Can you imagine what it would be like if you had a message from Atlantis? The old message-in-a-bottle route might work, but surely there must be a more efficient way of getting a message from the deep blue ocean to its intended recipient!

I was playing with the words “Mermaid” and “Email”, and quite naturally stumbled onto “Mermail”. I then knew just what kind of graphics I needed: an old world map, a sea monster of  sorts, and a quite modern stamp from Singapore. The map, merman and text were inkjet printed on cardstock; the stamp was saved from some old business correspondence.

This is my first-ever ATC, heavily inspired by Nick Bantock’s “Urgent 2nd Class: Creating curious collage, dubious documents, and other art from ephemera”.

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