Summer postcard swap is open

The summer postcard swap is now open. The last day to submit postcards is July 31, 2019.

I made a 5-minute youtube video with lots of examples and an explanation. The written rules are a bit farther down in this post.

https://youtu.be/VrfnqfAHFW8

The theme is a vintage-inspired theme of your choice. My only reminder is that it should be in a vintage style.

Here are some of the suggestions:

• -postal
• -travel
• -floral
• -your state or country
• -quotes
• -simple pleasures
• -maps
• -something with a postage stamp (that's mine )

Swap details

You are invited to participate in a vintage collage mail art swap, that will be traded with other artists through postcards. The idea is to create ATCs on a postcard in a vintage-inspired theme of your choice. After you receive postcards in the mail, you can decide if you want to cut out your ATCs or if you want to keep the postcard as it is.

 

ATCs are “artist trading cards”, and are typically the size of a playing card. A postcard has enough room for two ATCs. Take a playing card and trace two outlines, side by side, with a space in between.

It’s up to you to decide what you’d like to create, just make sure that you have at least a third of you elements are vintage, or vintage inspired. Each of your ATCs should be individual, but they can share elements and similarities.

 

• Your collages must be originals that you made and not copies, even if it’s your own work.
• When you make your collages, use papers only, no bumpy embellishments
• At least a third of your paper elements should be vintage or vintage-inspired
• You may send in as many as four cards. (You will get back the same number you send, each from a different artist)
• Your cards will be mailed to your host in an envelope, and your host will mail them "naked" to other swappers. International swappers will have swapped postcards all mailed back in one envelope
• If you're sending more than one postcard, please make sure they don’t stick together
• Write “VGB - ATCs" on the back of each card and attach your return address in the UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER in case of postal delivery problems
• Write a general short note, poem, sentence, etc., in the "message" portion of your postcard for the recipient.
• LEAVE THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE POSTCARD BLANK (THE PART WHERE THE ADDRESS "TO" GOES)
• Include a mailing label with your name and address for each card you create (Your host will attach them to the cards she mails back to you)
• Enclose your cards into an envelope that includes loose postage and your loose address labels.
• Mail your envelope to:
  Margarete Miller
  P.O. Box 3115 
  Saratoga, CA 95070 
  USA
• The deadline is July 31. Please mail in your submissions by that time. I will wait a few weeks for any last letters arriving from overseas
• Postcards will be mailed out August 15

INTERNATIONAL SWAPPERS - contact me regarding using PayPal to cover return mailing postage, or to make other arrangements.--------------------------