Address April

So for my first monthly challenge I'm going to make and write thirty cards for thirty people in thirty days. Thirty.

Since I'm from the east coast I have a lot of friends and family that I never see. Email and Facebook are alright, you stay up to date, you can say "hi", but it clearly is not the same as getting a note in the mail. When I was working at the "Paper Store" (as everyone took to calling it) I became obsessed with card making. So, this challenge is sort of two-fold. First, I'm keeping in touch with people and showing them that I care via post. Second, the cards will be little projects to use the right side of my brain. 

I'll be compiling the cards here, though probably not whatever I write in them. My plan is to post once or twice a week with pictures, cards, and any replies I get. 

the last of the cards!

 

end of the drippy paint, as rain.

polka dots.

skull & tree pastel. 

this is actually the back of the card, but i thought it was cute. (poor geography depiction.)

oops, forgot these

last night i had a little freakout that i had miscounted cards. not the case! i just forgot to post a few. so here they are.

sad koi fish (aka, fluffy shrimp). this actually had a very hilarious little note in it about the sea critter on the front.

 

trees, send to a boy with trees tattooed on him.

faces and oranges.

another batch of cards

 so i posted last night, but i didn't put up every finished card i had. here are the stragglers. i grouped these together because they all started the same. i'm using cards and envelopes that i already have in my stash, and i have a lot of jadeite #10 envelopes and cement #10 cards. (those aren't green and grey? no. they're not.) after some painting and such, they are no longer all the same!

almost done

 only a few more days in the month! i am almost done with my 30 cards. i certainly haven't been sending one a day, but it looks like i have seven left. that's not too shabby. i have more to post, but i figure i'd break it up over the next few days. 

without further adieu, here are some cards that are going into the mailbox tomorrow morning:

tree card for my beloved hippie cousin. (tree is cut out of recycled paper!)

that sounds pretty heavy, man

 on one hand, this is a very short update: look, i made more cards. i think they're pretty. i'm still behind, but i'll catch up!

 

Procrastination, because it's nothing new.

today is my birthday, and that means we are ten days into the month of april. up to this point, i've only mailed four cards, but i'll be making up for it this weekend, and trying to match the date to the number of sent mail pieces.