C+P Nature Mail Art

Cool swap idea Steph! Fun one!

I like this one a lot: we should consider having more swaps with themed images inside the envelope! Old advertisements, people, women only, that sort of thing...

Actually, now that I'm re-reading the writeup, I have a bit of a problem with your excluding printed-at-home graphics, Steph: what if we're scanning images in books that we don't want to cut up, and copying those high-res images onto high-quality paper? Is there any chance you could put "low-quality" in front of "printed-at-home" so that high-quality scanned images are not excluded?

It had crossed my mind to make it a series, Fi.

If you are talking laser printer images, I might allow it. In my experience, anything less (ink-jet) has ended up a mess to work with.

I don't want to be cantankerous here, but I have an old Canon inkjet printer, and I use images printed by it in nearly every collage I make. I can't imagine my collage work without being able to scan books and print images from them. What do you mean about their being a mess to work with? I print some on high-res paper, some on matte photo paper, and I never have any trouble cutting them out and gluing them down. I won't give you an example from my photostream, because I mean that literally: nearly every collage I do.

Inkjet images are a pain - and I have a Canon inkjet printer too - in that, when it comes to layering (paint, mediums, etc) and altering (making transfers), inkjet images do not hold up. Not in my experience.

I also would rather not open the door up to people just sourcing some images via Google image search and printing them out. I don't think it's unreasonable to find 12 images to share among books, mags, brochures and the like.

Copy that. =smile=

Here's an idea. Instead of decorating the envelope we're sending the magazine bits in, why not decorate an envelope and include it in the envelope? That way we actually have a piece of art we can keep/display. Also, why not say the envelope in the next swap has to be decorated with the nature pieces you were sent. This would guarantee we'd use them, and not just add them to the stash we have. This first envelope can be decorated as we wish, since we haven't been sent anything yet.

Too late for this swap, but just to consider for the next themed swaps.

But you will have a piece of art to keep/display - the decorated envelope that gets sent through the mail...addressed to you with stamps on it, even. Why the extra step?

What you're describing sounds like @SFreer 's "I'll Cut, You Paste" swaps. I just wanted to do a relatively quick envelope and swap some images. The 12 images you send out will be getting replaced with 12, so your stash isn't going to be affected much.