Heart Postcards

Below are my latest postcards for my postcard project and Baci and Dziadziu, respectively.  I used a Martha Stewart Crafts Heart Punch, paint chips and an old note card for the hearts (and the little birdie in the right-hand corner), scrapbook paper for the state of California and background, and Modge Podge.

 

Paint chip heart postcard - paint chips and old note card

 

California Love - too bad Baci and Dziadziu won't understand the Tupac reference.  

The state flag has a bear on it,  so I added one here too.  Can you find it?

Vrksasana Dot Art Postcard

In Honor of Arbor Day and my yogi friend, I created this Vrksasana - tree pose - postcard for our April postcard project.  I traced my vrksasana cookie cutter and painted the dots with Q-tips; the technique is similar to this heart.

Advice From A Tree

Stand tall and proud

Go out on a limb

Remember your roots

Drink plenty of water

Be content with your natural beauty

Enjoy the view

~Ilan Shamir

Mindfulness Collage Postcard

Using some quotes that I pinned on Pinterest and old Yoga Journal magazines, I created a mindfulness collage for this month's postcard.

My friend and I were inspired by a mutual friend to partake in a yearlong postcard project. Each month - for one year - we create and send postcards to one another.

Namaste.  

OM Postcard

Another month, another postcard for my friend.  

OM Shanti - peace. 

V Day Paint Chip Postcards

This year for Valentine's Day I sent handmade postcards to my parents and Baci and Dziadziu.  I used a Martha Stewart Crafts Heart Punch to make the paint chip hearts.

Salt Water Postcard

 

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.  

~Isak Dinesen

Yogi Postcard

A Yoga Collage: The first postcard I created for our year-long postcard project. 

Peace Postcard

My December postcard for my year-long postcard project. 

  Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu; Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi 

Translation: May the entire world know peace, happiness, and love;
Om peace, peace, perfect peace

May all beings be happy

May all beings be healthy

May all beings live in peace and harmony today, in 2013, and always.

Be ok

While practicing yoga in my friend's studio, I noticed her be ok candle and decided to use these words for my November postcard.  As part of our yearlong postcard project, another friend and I make and send a postcard to one another each month.

Using a watercolor postcard, watercolors, and a Sharpie, I designed this be ok postcard.

Let Go

My east coast, yogi friend and I are doing a yearlong post card project.  Each month we make and send a postcard to one another.  We learned about this project from our mutual friend A. who's creating and sending 52 postcards (one/week) to her friend in the Garden State.  That seems overly ambitious to me because one postcard/month is challenging enough.

This is my October postcard, which reminds us all to breathe, let go, be present in the moment, and let God. I used newspaper, permanent markers, Modge Podge, and a blank postcard.

Thanks to Keri Speidel's dictionary art over at creativegeniusart for the inspiration.