These pages show postcards made by members of the Carving Consortium mailing list. Each card was a collaboration among four people.
Here's most of the original call for the project:
I recently carved a stamp that I like, but I don't know what it's good for. It's a short length of barbed wire; I saw it in an newspaper photo and decided to carve it. I know, it's for keeping my cattle from wandering onto the highway, but I don't have any cattle, so I'm not sure what to do with it.So, in the hopes of getting some ideas for it, I'm proposing something like a card completion or round robin swap. If at least four, and up to a dozen, people are interested, here's what: I'll send a postcard-sized card with my image stamped on it, and a list of two other addresses, in an envelope, to each participant. Each person adds one or more hand-carved images, preferably in a way that makes sense, to the composition, and mails it (in an envelope) to the next person on the list within one week. The third person mails it (in an envelope) back to me. I scan the card, put it on a web page, and mail it (in an envelope) to a fourth person who hasn't stamped on that particular card, who gets to keep it and see four other people's stamps. I won't keep any of the finished cards, but I get to see them all.
Each person will get to stamp the second image on one card, the third image on another, and the fourth image on a third. I hope you'll choose to do something different each time, inspired by what the previous people have stamped, but that's not required. If you want to do a background, that's OK. If you want your stamp to come out in front, you can add a post-it mask (remember that nobody else has your carving, so they can't make a mask if they want your image in front of theirs)
Because there's only one copy of each of these cards, these pages are the only way for participants to see completed cards that they started. Here you go!
The images below are shown at 25% size. Click on any one to see it at full size and resolution and to read any comments that participants added on the back of the card.
The last card I got back had, collaged on the back, the words “my special contribution is crucial.” Everyone's contribution was crucial, and wonderful! Thanks again to everyone who played.
