World Collage Day

Back in May I stumbled across a post on Instagram that said “Did you know May 11th is World Collage Day?” I have to admit I did not. My interest was piqued though, and it came at a time when I was keen to experiment with other art mediums (aka avoiding tidying my workshop). A collage artist in Germany called Bhupaligupte suggested that to celebrate it anyone could make and send some collage postcards by snail mail. By searching for the hashtag #worldcollagedaypostcards2019 I found some people who were taking part and I messaged them to see if they wanted to swap postcards with me. I’m a bit late to the hashtag party, but this was the first time I had ever found a use for them, and I now see they are quite handy.
I had a great time making my postcards to send, but I discovered that I am not keen on using wet glue, it is sticky and messy and not suitable for using on the same table I do my sewing preperation on. I resorted to using iron on interfacing, double sided sticky tape, glue dots and my trust sewing machine.
Here are the some of the cards I sent, and received in swaps.

I sent the top one to, and received the bottom one from Rare Notions by Phiona Richards 

I sent the bottom one to, and received the top one from muebbelchen

I sent the top one to, and received the bottom one from Artymess Textile Art

I sent the top one to, and received the bottom one from Bhupali Gupte who organised the exchange on Instagram

I sent the bottom one to, and received the top one from Oliveleux

I sent the bottom one to, and received the top one from Leslie Rottner Art

I sent the bottom one to, and received the top one from mia_art.ch

I sent the top one to, and received the bottom one from mein_wintergartenatelier

I sent the bottom one to, and received the top one from azul_luz_

I sent the top one to, and received the bottom one from janaclinardharris

I sent the top one to, and received the bottom one from donnajoy88

I sent the top one to, and received the bottom one from Amy Smith ArtistHere are the backs of the cards I sent…I thoroughly enjoyed the swap and it introduced me to some interesting collage artists to follow on Instagram.  One of them was Teri Fridely   and I saw a post by her offering to send  a copy of one of her collaged pieces to anyone who wanted one.
I asked for one and it arrived along with some other interesting bits . I thought I better put that somewhere safe so it doesn’t get buried, and I did. Turns out it was such a safe place that I didn’t find it for four months. As soon as it turned up I had a play with it and came up with this.. I have put the cool birdie back in a safe place until I get another chance to play with it again. You can see what other people did with it here
Another artist I came across was Maryanne Hawes who organises The Act of Kindness Postcard Project . Sounds good, I thought, and promptly made 6 postcards to leave in places on my travels. I took them to a music festival with plans to leave them about the place, but got somewhat distracted and didn’t do it. Forgot all about them until today when I was looking for something else and found them in my caravan. I have no plans to go anywhere further than Inverness in the near future so I would like to distribute 5 of the cards further afield. I’m looking for 5 people in the UK who I can send cards to and then they will leave them somewhere for someone else to find. Not in Inverness though, I’ve got that covered. If you would like me to send you a card please comment “send me a card”  below, and confirm you are in the UK . It needs to be within the UK because they are already stamped, with UK stamps. There are 5 cards, so first 5 people (in UK) to comment will get them. Ha, this will let me know if people read to the end of my blogposts, or just look at the photos 🙂
Another thing I came across via World Collage Day was Swapbot and that’s what my next blogpost will be about.