The Elevated Envelope: Trees, Seasons and the World

We are all apart of something greater.

My participation in the Elevated Envelope again. Doodling and connecting all my envelopes together as they are now sent around the world to Ohio, Washington, the UK and Australia. 

Valentine's Day Postcard

Megan hired me to create Valentine's Day postcards for her. She is a nurse on a cardiac step down floor so she deals with hearts daily. She also has a love for biking and biked in her first race this past October in the Pedal the Cause. The elements of the card were all inspired by her and for her. Enjoy and share the love!

its all in the details...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said: "God is in the details"

50 States 50 Sketch Postcard Project.

Last one and I'm done with this little project! Onto the next one....


Connecticut 

Recipient: M. Iezzi

50 States 50 Sketches Postcard Project

North Dakota

50 States 50 Sketches Postcard Project

Talking with friends and half strangers about my project has taught me about the states, found people to
send mail to and helped me become a better sketcher. Its been fun making up and looking up new fonts to try out and thinking of what to sketch. I've learned I should make a possible list of things I want to sketch before I start. For New Hampshire, I now look at it and think it could be so much cooler if I would have planned my sketches better but that's okay, onto the next one! 2 left!

South Dakota:

New Hampshire

Recipient: NH- Mosers

50 States. 50 Sketches. Postcard Projecet.

North Carolina:

Utah:

Recipients: Utah- J. Smith, North Carolina-  S Powell

50 states 50 sketches Postcard Project

Getting near done 3 or 4 left... I've learned that I shouldn't necessarily go freehand at it. I should plan more- make a list of things I want to draw before I just draw it. My 11 year old cousin did a school report on Vermont and that inspired most of the postcard below. 

West Virginia was another state I knew little about so the words made up most of the card. We sang along to dueling pianos on NYE and John Denver's Country Roads was a fun one- so he made it onto the postcard. 

Oregon

 

 Vermont

 West Virginia

Recipients: Oregon- L. Flores, Vermont- J. Petti, West Virginia- K. Phillips Burnett

50 States, 50 Sketches Postcard Project

I've been working on this project since May and my goal was to finish by Christmas. (Project- to send 50 state sketches- one to someone in each state.) I almost got there! I got 8 done on Christmas. It was pretty fun working on it with my family around because they gave me good, fun ideas for the sketches and I learned things I didn't know about each state. My Grandpa grew up in PA and my Grandparents lived in VA also so I heard stories from those areas. I still need a few more people to send them to in states like Wyoming, Maine, CT and hopefully I'll find someone who knows someone before I resort to sending them to the Governor. Enjoy!

Alabama

 Delaware

 Montana

 Nebraska

 New Jersey

 Pennsylvania

 Rhode Island

 Virginia

Recipients: AL- no one yet. V. Hollis, RI- R&J Highley, VA- S. Caldwell,  DE- M. Bryce, PA- P&E Cirino, NJ- E. Ozga , MT- J. Freytag,  NE- N. Koetter

Merry Cardmas!

This is some of my participation in Merry CARDmas! I was given 5 random names from the Merry Cardmas pool and got to send them  homemade Christmas cards! I made Christmas postcards out of paper scraps and old maps.

50 States. 50 Sketches Postcard Project.

Still trucking along sending postcards to people I know! Sketching at coffee shops while friends, who went to school in Indiana, study and read. My sister gave me insight to Indiana also with the song Fly Over States by Jason Aldean. Enjoy!

Indiana

Massachusetts

Recipients: Indiana- Luepkes, Mass: S. Eisele

50 States. 50 Sketches. Postcard Project.

My designs are getting better- which is why I started this project in the first place, to become a better sketcher, so I can write a children's book someday. I've been to both of these states and felt like I knew enough to fill the postcards. I think they embrace the states!

Nevada

 Washington

Recipients: Nevada: A. Kruenegel, Washington: Youm Family

50 States. 50 Sketches Postcard Project.

These were pretty fun and somewhat challenging. New York had a wide range of things that reminded me of the state from "The City" to Upstate but I didn't know much about Minnesota- or all I think of about Minnesota are lakes, outdoors and the Mall of America. Enjoy!

New York

 Mississippi

Minnesota

 Ohio

Recipients: New York: G. Stearns, Mississippi: Up for grabs  11/30/2012 UPDATE: J. Barnhill,  Minnesota D. Madden, Ohio: S. Miner

Elevated Envelope- Malicious Surprise: Clue Style

Tara/Ephemera started the Elevated Envelope in 2011... " project where creative strangers from all over the world send each other artistic snail mail." 

 This was my second time participating. I had a great idea all lined up, then she gave us a theme: Malicious Surprise.  I had no clue what to do because I don't like scary things. Now, all of a sudden, great ideas come to me. But I started with the cut out letters like a ransom note- creepy hopefully!? Then I sat for a while with artistic block. Then Clue came to me, somehow. So I made each of my recipients a card with a Clue character, a room and a weapon. Enjoy the mail art below!

 

 

 

The backs were decorated too and inside each recipient received a tea bag the color of their character (ie Prof Plum: lavender tea)

And because I had to make a complete set, I made a keeper for myself to remember all this fun!