Card Exchange 2026

Several of our group members agreed to participate in our third card exchange. Each participant made a full set of cards so they could give one to each of the other participants. This exchange has no specific guidelines and everyone is free to employ whatever book arts or paper arts skills they like to use. The results include a wide range of techniques including letterpress, painting, illustration, eco printing, collage, pop-ups, stamping, paper cutting, and more.

Check out all the cards below, you can click the photos to make them larger. Some of our participants created an edition with twelve cards that are all the same and some participants made twelve unique cards, in which case only a few are shown here.

	Sally Crawford An edition of note cards made with natural dyed papers each with a handmade envelope made from a variety of original eco-printed papers.
	Marilynn Rudi An edition of cards featuring collage, stamping, and hand-lettering on the outside and a pop-up honeycomb heart on the inside.
	Barbara Dugas An edition of tri-fold cards featuring a telephone collage with mixed media elements and stamping.
	Heather Loney A set of cards featuring her own intricately hand-cut illustrations.
	Tarika Stitt An edition of handmade cards featuring painting and illustration paired with handmade envelopes.
	Larry Colwell An edition of cards featuring an underwater fishbone collage.
	Rhynn Winstead A set of cards each featuring an original ink and watercolour illustration exploring Little Red Riding Hood imagery.
	Rhonda Miller An edition of cards featuring hand-cut flora on the outside and a pop-up garden on the inside with foil-printed text.
	Julie Rosvall An edition of cards blind debossed with knit lace patterns and letterpress printed with an Ellen Glasgow quotation.
	Mallory Kinley A set of twelve unique cards each featuring an original watercolour illustration.
	Anna Roberts A set of twelve unique cards featuring a variety of found images and collage elements.
	Stephanie Morley An edition of letterpress postcards ready to send out to our local government representatives to protest recent funding cuts to arts and culture programs.
	Katie Prescott A shiny gold edition featuring found library cards overprinted with letterpress text.

Card Exchange 2025

Thirteen of our creative group members signed up to participate in our second card exchange. Each participant made a full set of cards so they could give one to each of the other participants. This exhange has no specific guidelines and everyone is free to employ whatever book arts or paper arts skills they like to use. The results include a wide range of techniques including painting, illustration, collage, stitching, letterpress, pop-ups, rubbings, stamping, paper cutting, and more.

Some participants created an edition with twelve cards that are all the same and some participants made each card unique, in which case only a few are shown here.

	Stephanie Morley A set of cards featuring a sewn fabric bunting and stamped text.
	Tabatha Cass And edition of handmade cards printed with an original lino block design in two colours.
	Sally Crawford Handmade cards each featuring a unique eco-printed paper.
	Barbara Dugas An edition of handmade cards featuring a time-themed collage and stamped text.
	Sara Davison A set of handmade cards each featuring a unique collage.
	Rhonda Miller An edition of pop-up cards with a lino print on original marbled paper and a quote, printed black on black, using hot foil.
	Marilynn Rudi A set of handmade cards featuring illustration, watercolour, and stitching patterns each with a customized envelope.
	Julie Rosvall An edition of cards featuring a debossed pattern printed from original knitted textile and a letterpress quotation inside.
	Catherine Vardy A set of handmade cards painted with watercolour washes and embellished either with embroidered landscape lines or Tree of Life rubbings.
	Emily Doucette An edition of handmade cards featuring an original lino block print on text with customized envelopes.
	Heather Loney A set of cards each with an intricately hand-cut letter customized for each recipient.
	Rowan Theakston An edition of handmade cards featuring a hand-drawn illustration on mulberry paper.
	Wanda Squire An edition of accordion booklets titled Art, Science, & Politics

Our first card exchange

A group of our members agreed to participate in a card exchange! Everyone was asked to make an edition of 11 handmade cards so that each participant would have a full set, i.e. one card made by each participant. Folks were encouraged to make anything they fancied using their array of book and paper arts skills. The results were wonderful and wide-ranging.

As shown below, the final cards included many techniques such as origami, pop-ups, collage, flexagons, fancy folds, and lino prints. Most participants created an edition of cards that were all the same; however, some participants made 11 entirely different cards and in those cases only a few of their cards are shown here.

	Emily Brown An edition of cards made using a hand-carved lino block print with added watercolour and ink.
	Jessie Bruce A set of cards each with a unique layout featuring a combination of illustration and collage.
	Larry Colwell An edition featuring the Turkish map fold made with a hardcover case for the outer card.
	Sally Crawford A set of cards featuring original eco printed botanical papers.
	Barb Dugas A variety of cards made with combinations of collage, stamping, and folding.
	Alaina Harper An edition of cards featuring a bedazzled pop-up Christmas tree.
	Heather Loney An edition of cards featuring handcut roses on the front and pop-up roses inside with origami leaves.
	Rhonda Miller An edition of flexagon cards printed with a quote from Joni Mitchell's song The Circle Game, with gold foil lettering and rubber stamp patterns.
	Stephanie Morley An edition of letterpress cards printed on her Craftsman Superior tabletop press, featuring a line from Benjamin Franklin's Aplogy for Printers, 1731.
	Odyssean Press An edition of cards featuring 'The Magician,' an original relief print, hand-carved and printed as an edition of 11.
	Marilynn Rudi Origami kite cards collaged with string and cloud prints. Each card also has a coordinating envelope.
	Rhynn Winstead An edition of cards featuring an original daffodil lino print on handmade paper.