Make your own postcards, collect them in an album, swap them with other people and have fun using up your stash of fabrics, beads, yarns and anything else that can be stitched onto a 4"x6" rectangle of stiffened fabric.

Elsewhere on this site is my review for Inchies Edited by Peggy Doneda-Kobert, which is a book on making inch square works of art. These postcards are also known as AMCs (artist mailing cards) and are the larger cousin of ATCs (artist trading cards) and perhaps offer even more scope for expression. They are yet another way of recycling all those leftover bits and pieces from other projects, and this book is filled with ideas on how to make them. Like Inchies it is of composite authorship, and each contributor has compiled several chapters of ideas on how to make your postcards. First follow the basics section on how to make the base (you need to use some of your fabric store, plus iron-on and double-sided interfacing). Then have fun learning about and experimenting with different looks from vintage to landscapes, utilise some dried flowers and leaves, have a go with Tyvek and Angelina Fibers, put your sewing machine through its paces and even make some fabric of your own by combining scraps. It is all great fun and very addictive, although probably more so for anybody already proficient with a number of different fabric and fiber arts with a large enough stash to allow for total freedom of experimentation. That is a very large number of people however, and this is definitely another one for the keeper shelf.