This weekend I rushed through writing my cards for RRs, one for a tag, and a card I promised someone to send. The hardest one was the Handmade RR Group 135 - Collages. I really really want to make a great, perfect, arty collages but I do not have the time nor I have the ability to make one. Julie's class on collages will start on December 1st and I can not wait any longer. It seems like a super fun and useful class to take.

Aaanyway, I managed to somewhat make the cards in a relatively short time span, and here they are:



For Alienne in Germany, I made a collaged background from a physics book and added her favorite subject : mice. I forgot about the rat thing (she asked us to draw it on our cards) in my last card for her because I was too excited about joining the RR.

For Vicki in Russia, I made a quite simple one, I hope this still counts as collage, I personally like it, but I'm afraid the person didn't see much effort in the card. Anyway! I made it based on a very interesting tutorial I saw online (I forgot where...), but the technique is to cut a page (of advertisements) in rectangles, and put them back together in random order and direction. I love the result! It has this modern art feel to it. I added a black sticker lace for accent.

For Heidi in The Netherlands, I made quite a scrapbook-y card. It was from a basic grey 6x6 pattern paper pad that I've had since forever. I cut each patterns in random strips, put them together, added some torn book page, paper lace, washi tapes and finally, some sentiment.

So I don't necessarily super satisfied of everything, but again, considering the time, they are pretty good and interesting :)

The second batch is! Rainbow cards with stars... Or whatever. This was actually the first batch I finished. And I've sent them all out yesterday! I hope they get to their destination soon and safely. I sent them out for my first Round Robin group ever. It's Handmade Cards RR for a group with the theme Abstract. I hope this is abstract enough, eep!



My personal favorite is the second card, look at this beautiful delicious details!



I got an idea to cover the whole surface of a spraypainted card with crackle candy, a clear crackle paint from ranger which I rarely use. And then when it dried I sprayed it again with Glimmer Mist and Maya Mist, leaving the pearls on top and the paint absorbed in the exposed space left by the crackle paint. I love the result.

The first has gone out to Russia, the second to Germany, and the third to The Netherlands. I hope the receivers loves them as much as I do :)

Julie's classes really polished my art sense and techniques. Last weekend I made what feels like TONS of cards ready to be sent. And I love them! I feel satisfied with how they turned out. Here's the first batch. I call them the 'Love Life' batch because I put the same sentiment on all of them.



I did all techniques that Julie taught me, with Julie's stencils and I am in love with the beautiful mess. I'm also happy that I finally made use of the things that has been sleeping on my cupboard (perfect pearls, stamps, etc. well I bought a bunch of new stuff, too, guilty as charged).

( details under the cut! )

I think these will be sent for the next handmade RR group that I'm participating in :)

I have loved dried leaves since I was in elementary school. I remember trying to make them myself, asking my dad to take some Soursop leaves, which I then put in a big bowl of water for weeks. My mom hated it, because the longer you kept it, the bowl of water let out a bad scent to the whole room, lol. Not to mention mosquito started to lay eggs on the water. My mom never supports me for anything that I like anyway, but I remember being so happy and satisfied when the epidermis fell out and uncovered the beautiful, beautiful veins. Hmm. Now I wonder where they are, my old art masterpieces. I do remember making a bookmark using a colored bougainvillea flower petals, which in the end looking like leaves.

Nowadays, it's very easy and cheap to get them. Stationery stores have them for a very cheap price, about 40 - 80 cent for one pack of 8. When I started my postcrossing and mixed media journey back in July, I searched through my old stuff to find my old postcards. Among them, I also found a plastic package of colored dried leaves I've hadn't have the chance to incorporate in my art, and has been there for years. So then I started to explore. These are some of the somewhat successful attempts.

This was the first one I tried making. Distress stains on watercolor paper, dried leaves white glue for the coat plus some magazine punches and markers.



I made this for a lady in The Netherlands for official postcrossing card.



Now this, is a beautiful accident. I usually make very loud art, very messy, colorful and full, but this one is so gorgeous in it's simplicity I decided to leave it like this.



This was the latest one. For my THIRD art exchange with Kriss that I have sent out on the 12th. I couldn't decide what to send her, because I wanted to send different things than I have sent her before, so I made this with the leaves. I think it's beautiful and I had a hard time letting it go in the post collection box.

A while ago we got a variety of senbeis from Japan with a very cute packaging :



The packaging was made of washi (Japanese paper) with some very bright Japanese traditional patterns. I just couldn't let it go into waste, so when it's empty I brought the packaging home and transformed it into ... what else if it's not POSTCARDS! It was quite a simple process, despite the fact that the washi packaging had a layer of plastic on the back of it which makes it hard to glue.

( step by step process under here )

And ta-dah! Here is the end result :

I made several postcards with washi tapes, they are very easy to work with and with small effort, I could get cute cards to send out to my friends! :)


I sent one to Chachic in Singapore and she asked me how many washi tapes I got. I actually never count them ... but here's a picture! I love the box, I got it from a 100 yen shop in Japan, but it no longer could fit all of my tapes, some has to sit on top of the others.

Two postcard-sized art for art exchange :)

Okay this may not be the best photo I've ever taken but still, it's my first ever mailart I'm going to post for postcrossing and I'm pretty excited about it!!



I also finished making Postcard-sized art for my first ever art exchange with Kriss!