Friday, February 6, 2015

Australian Art Swaps



Who loves getting Happy Mail?
It sure beats bills-
Who is missings Milliande's  wonderful Art Community for Women?
I know I am and my friends and family have been missing the art swapping as well.

I have been thinking about hosting some swaps again for ages, 

I started up an art journal swap to kick of in January 2014 and to save on postage costs and hopefully cut down on lost journals and missing people I decided to keep in in Australia only. This swap has been fantastic with a really great group of women and we all keep in pretty good contact on a private facebook group and share our work on our blog.



I was still hearing the need for art swaps-
From my fellow artists and from the homeschool community who wanted to make and swap ATCs and postcards and other little works so I started up another facebook group this one is The Australian Art Swap Group  I am really liking it just being for Australians as postage time is much shorter and costs much lower.

So far we have done a few ATC swaps,
 some for the junior artists- fun in the sun and animals
and a few for the grown up artists as well,
the little cutie at the top of the post came from Wendy and
 these are the three I made for the summer days swap.

We also share ideas and interesting things and are developing a nice little supportive community. One of our members posted about cheap erasers available in the back to school sales so we have been talking about carving our own stamps and I took a photo to share, of some of my well used ones.  


We welcome all levels of art and are open to all sorts of swaps.
So please come and ask to join The Australian Art Swap Group  on facebook.


As an added bonus you can use the gorgeous envelopes as pockets in your art jourals.

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