Collaborative art in a Letter Journal

Letter journals are 4"x8" and fit into a business-size envelope. You can make one for yourself and fill it up as you like — or, organize a small group for a round robin exchange. For a group exchange, each participant would create a letter journal. A list of participants is made and each participate mails their journal to the next person on the list in round robin fashion. Drawing, painting, collage and more is added to each journal as participants send the journal to the next person on the list. When all of the participants have added to all of the letter journal, the last mailing is to the owner who created it. Each participant ends up with the journal they made, filled up with all kinds of art & collage added by the other participants! The letter journals on this page were done one on one, as an exchange between two friends. Lenna’s journal below that was sent to her friend Sharon a number of times until it was filled. The journal was made from folded pieces of paper bound together with a pamphlet stitch.


Below is a Letter journal by Sharon sent back & forth to fill with our collaborative art.

Sharon and I also collaborated on two Altered Books - click to view. To look at another Letter Journal - visit this post.