Picking up the mail this week was like Christmas! 80+ envelopes for the Liberate Your Art postcard swap had arrived while I was on vacation, bringing the received total to 160. Yay!! My son looked like Santa Claus, carrying the bag into the house.
Want to see some of this week’s wonderful mail art? Of course you do!!
Paula sent this colorful winged collage art on the envelope…
…and Deb proved art has wings with this wonderful piece.
Look, her art is celebrating its liberation!
Deb also sent me a beautiful bracelet handcrafted from Kodiak Island sea glass. A bonus surprise! How awesome is that! Thanks Deb – I love it.
This envelope from Terrie reminded me of the wonderful texture and layers that get added when you send something through the mail.
Kathy sent this beautiful print on her envelope. Isn’t it cool how the envelope acts as the mat! I love it! I might have to frame this one.
In fact, I’m trying to figure out how to display all of this wonderful art I’m receiving. I would love to have this liberated art on display all year long! I can’t wait to open the envelopes this weekend and see what else is hiding inside from some of you. It’s almost time to liberate the art back out into the world! Are you as excited as I am?
Yay! I’m excited 🙂
One way to have it on display, which might tempt new people to join next year, is to create an online gallery with the art in it. 🙂
Ooooh, great idea! I’ll work on figuring out how to do that!
Beautiful. What a wonderful collection coming in…
Wow, what a treat for you! My envelope is on its way — don’t start without me!
It’s not fancy though 🙁
Thank goodness they are not all fancy… If I got too many fancy envelopes I wouldn’t have enough blog space to write! And I would never get anything swapped, I’d just be ooohing and aaaahing over the envelopes. 🙂 It is nice to be able to share some beautiful mail art with you all though, leading up to the swap.
Wow! What fun… Can’t wait to see more….
Cool! Amazing talent that can take such an ordinary element and make into such beautiful art. Love it!
Isn’t it awesome to see what happens when someone liberates their art!
Yep, I’m excited too, can’t wait to see what lovely art drops through my mail box 🙂
This is all new to me but it’s BEAUTIFUL!!
Lucky you – you get to see every single piece of art from 160 folks! But I also know it’s a lot of work to manage the mailings – though I imagine it’s a labor of love. We love you for doing it again this year – I can’t wait to receive my p/c and meet new artists this year!
It was so fun to see that BIG bag of mail! Those envelops are amazing..so creative. Have fun!
How fantastic! Some beautiful art there.
Gee, It never occurred to me to decorate the envelope! i just dropped it into a priority mail envelope and sent it on it’s way.
I applaud you for doing this project. I can’t really wrap my brain around creating Art aside from my photos that I do consider art. the things you’ve shared are just amazing. Hope everyone has fun with their collections that “Santa” delivered.
YES!
Totally excited; this is just like Christmas!
Thank you for all your work to put this together
and then liberate it all.
It never crossed my mind to decorate the envelope 🙁 what a missed opportunity! Of course I was late and didn’t have time to invest but still…
So much fun! Glad you enjoyed my envie…I had great fun puttering around and doing it! An online gallery sounds so awesome, but I can also picture these hanging on some sort of wire or twine and draped like a garland in a room somewhere…
wow that envelope is GORGEOUS!