Collaborative Swaps: Pass & Paste PC Any Style

Make a new Pass & Paste postcard or send an established pass & paste postcard.

Any style. Any art medium (collage, mixed-media, hand-drawn, painted, markers, color pencils, rubberstamping, etc.). Any theme or no theme. Postcard maker's choice.

Pass & Paste postcards are divided into sections. The creator fills in (pastes in) section 1 then passes it on. The next recipient fills in a section and passes it on. When the postcard is full it gets returned by the person who filled in the last section.

Pass & Paste Postcard examples

Instructions:

• Cut postcard weight paper to postcard size

• Divide the front side of the PC into sections, but no more than 6 sections.

• Decorate section 1.

• The postcard may eventually be mailed naked so securely adhere items to your section.

• Turn the PC over, and address the postcard to yourself.

• Note: Do not include postage because the last person sending it home may not be from the same country as you.

• Divide the other half of the back of the postcard into equal writing areas. In section 1 leave your username, and which Pass & Paste you are doing. And if there's room the date, and anything else.

• Mail the postcard, in an envelope, to your partner.

Established P&P PCs

• Use the postcard you have received from another Pass & Paste swap.

• Decorate one of the empty sections and then put it in an envelope and send that PC forward in the next round.

Finish

• The goal is to have each space filled out by a different artist, and then sent home to the originator.

• When you receive a postcard with only one empty square left, decorate it and mail it back naked or in a clear protective sleeve, to the original creator. Their name and mailing info should be on the card already. You will need to add the proper postage stamp.

• If you receive an unfinished Pass & Paste postcard please always send it on, even if you decide not to participate any longer. At the very least, send it back to the original creator. Or send it to me (P.O. Box 31013 Willowwest, Guelph, Ontario N1H 8K1 Canada) and I will forward it on. That way everyone should eventually get their postcard back.

• If you are assigned the creator as a partner, do not send them their uncompleted postcard. Start a new PC.

• If you get assigned a partner and they have already worked on that PC, then hold it and send it in the next round to a different partner or please send it to me. Send your partner a new PC.

• If the finished PC is particularly fragile, lumpy, or things not adhered well, or wet weather is an issue, go ahead and send in a sleeve or envelope, though naked is preferred.