Postcards!

I love postcards especially handmade art postcards. 

When these postcards arrived in the mail, I couldn't stop admiring every detail about them and be inspired. 

These were sent through the postcard swap earlier this month.

Enjoy!

Terrie Purkey from Creative Explorer

I just love the collaging and use of mix media in this piece. The corrugated textured heart really stands out against the neat text background.

Anita from Zafaran's Dream Doses
This postcard is so beautifully painted and the detail is astonishing. I can't stop looking at this!

Lorinda Fraser from Everyday Endeavours

I love the mixed media background and the collaging of the different pieces especially the stamps. This reminded me of when I used to collect stamps and now I would love to incorporate stamps into a future art piece.

Thanks to all these talented for the postcards! It certainly made my day when I received it :)

love

"We are all a little weird, 

and life's a little weird, 

and when we find someone's weirdness whose compatible with ours, 

we join up with them and fall into mutual weirdness 

and we call this 

love."

-Dr. Suess

This is my last postcard out of the three that I've sent through postcard swap. I've definitely had a lot of fun with it and it gave me a chance to actually try watercolour (believe it or not, I haven't really used watercolour except for a few recent times with my daughter). I think out of the three postcards, I like this one best just because I love the simplicity and white space. I think I have a thing for admiring beautiful watercolour paper :D I can't wait to share the postcards I received in my next post :)

Splash

A splash of colour to wake up your Monday morning.  :)

This is another postcard I sent off in the postcard swap. Even though the watercolour paper was already 140 lbs, it still got really warped. I guess I just love splashing on that water. Maybe next time I'll try taping the paper down to help minimize the warping.

Happy Monday Everyone!

Breathe

No matter how busy you are, don't forget to breathe. 

Happy World Yoga Day!

I sent this postcard earlier this month as part of a postcard swap (I really hope it doesn't get lost in the mail and reaches the recipient!) The postcard swap really gave me a chance to finally break into the watercolour set my husband got me for my Christmas present.

My blog posts seem to be more sparse again as things have been busy on my end. Last weekend, my daughter just turned 3. We had a nice little celebration with a big family dinner as well as a family outing to the ROM on Family Day. I was also called in to supply teach a couple times in the last 2 weeks so my regular routine seemed out of the swing of things. Recently, I started up on yoga again but practicing at home this time around. I've been trying to practice everyday and I found it's a great way to wake up in the morning. I think that's what inspired this postcard painting of mine. Anyway, I hope I'll have more time to blog and craft soon!