Come Alive!

All ready to go.  Sometime in the next few days I should get a list of 10 names from iHanna.   Address, stamp and write a short note and they’re on their way!!  Then just sit back and wait patiently  anxiously check my mail box everyday hoping to find what fun and creative mail will show up from all over the world!

I made these by starting with a couple of larger pieces of paper that I covered with acrylic and some stamping.   I collaged some circle layers of colorful papers to create a flower shape and helped that along with a little graphite in the background to suggest some petal shapes.  Another bit of collage on the base and a bit of embellishment with markers and they became mail art.

The phrase “come alive” comes from a quote by Howard Thurman:

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive.  And then go and do that because what the world needs is people who have come alive!”

“come alive” postcards; collage, acrylic, pen and graphite; iHanna postcard swap; Spring 2014