Leann Meixner's latest

We've decided to continue with this project!

Leann's card arrived a few days ago:


I LOVE the texture of the printing.

Dot McQuade's piece

She sent us stickers from MoveOn and this was the envelope:

Maimun's set

I got a bit behind in sending out my cards so I closed the year with a three-in-one pack:


This one is a postcard printing of a larger piece I'd done that was a multi-block print. I think there was a total of 15 blocks.



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Vanessa Gilkes's card

Vanessa Gilkes mixed images and quotes:

JD Asmussen's Seeds of Hope

The year ended with a flurry of New Day celebrations and I apologize for taking so long to upload.

JD Asmussen sent in this beautiful piece with a wonderful sentiment

Dusty's Hopeful Child

I find this piece emotionally powerful.
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Janis Doucette's latest bloom

One of my favorite quotes is, "You can start to change the landscape with a single flower (Spock)"

May this one grow like weeds! ;)
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Maimun's latest

I've been newly hooked on "inchies" and played with digital ones for this card.
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One from Dusty

This is from Dusty:


Smiles all around!

Amy D's latest

Amy D sent this:


I smile every time I look at it!

Hope

My first card in the swap came out of a stamp that I carved for my journal in November as part of my entry regarding Election night (the journal entry is the image to the left). It just seemed to me during the election coverage, that one moment the election could almost have gone either way, and then the next moment, Obama was in and the world had changed. It was that moment that I tried to capture with the stamp.

I wanted to reproduce my little collage from the journal on a postcard, and I spent some time thinking about it. I think I probably could have put my hands on 25 of the postage stamps, but I don't think the post office would have been too happy about cancelled stamps on the back of a postcard so I eventually gave in and came up with a simpler design for the postcard (see below).

Catching Up! (with apologies to all the participants!)

I'm sorry it's taken me a while to post the more recent entries. Some of these New Days still can get to be a bit much is my only explanation.

Janie P included fabric stamping on this:


Leann Meixner sent this:


and this one:


And I just got this from Dusty today:

Trish Jonston's

This my latest, and may be my last for a while, because of the pressure of other commitments. The image of the President was a real so-and-so to do. I must have been out of my mind to tackle a portrait with leis, but the idea was to emphasize the President's early exposure to Hawaiian values. I will look forward to seeing everyone else's work until I can come back in the loop.

Carve well!

Obama Dove

Janis Doucette sent out this amazing print. It's another large card.

To Transform a Nation

Janis Doucette's HOPE is a large postcard at 8x5.5"

HOPE

Jenny Hunter Groat's HOPE:

The Torch is Passed

Two arrived from Suzanne Denker:

Happy New Era!

This is a multi-block I made to celebrate Inauguration Day.
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