Perk Up Your Post: DIY Cards and Postcards

By ·The Poetry Store Poet, IOA Teacher

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If Hallmark greetings just aren't your thing or you want a little kickstart for sending some friends a little snail mail love, this class is for you! Come and learn a few simple techniques for upcycling ordinary postcards and turning blank pieces of paper into unique works of art. All you need to bring is yourself and your creative juices. If you don't feel like you have any creative OJ in you, don't worry! The class demos, examples, and unexpected materials will be sure to inspire you.

What You'll Get Out of This Class:

  • inspiration & ideas for making your own cards and postcards (hand sewing, collage, stamping, incorporating slides & 3d objects, etc.)
  • take home materials for making cards & postcards
  • a list of local material & supply resources
  • at least 5 cards/postcards to take home with you + postage to mail them
  • the time to make at least a few people the happy recipients of what you made

check out material and sample photos here.

Taught by Silvi Alcivar

The Poetry Store Poet, IOA Teacher

I've always been one to save the scrappy stuff and turn it into something else. In kindergarten I handmade my teacher, Mrs. Morris, a book about animals. In the process of making my rhinos and elephants and tigers, I ended up with as many pages of scribbled out mistakes as I did pages to keep. Did I...

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