Carvers' EboardsIf you found this URL in a Somerset Studio article about the Carver's Consortium,
you really want to go to Carver's Consortium. Of course,
you're free to look around here!
Newly uploaded -- The Mandala Swap
The Eyes Have It! swap by Kristi Schueler (kurki)
The newbie swap another by Kristi Schueler
Eboard is a web site where anyone can create their own bulletin board with a few clicks. Several members of the Carving Consortium have them. They announced around the middle of February 2002 that they would start charging money for boards, so most CC members are going to abandon them.
Kristi Schueler suggests checking the following web sites, which as of March 2002 had free picture posting available. She writes
I was doing some research for an online class I am teaching and I found the following sites still have free photo sharing. On some I could not find how much space was available. I have only personally tried Picturetrail and Digital Fridge and I found both acceptable and not difficult to use. The others I cannot comment on.Picturetrail 20 Mb, 50Mb with free upgrade. Christine Fitzgerald says of it,
I like PictureTrail a lot so far and would recommend it to anyone on the list.Yahoo! Briefcase 30 Mb (total with Photos)
Yahoo! Photos 30 Mb (total with Briefcase)
ClubPhoto ? Mb (free service limits albums for only 90 days)
PhotoIsland 50 Mb
DigitalFridge ? Mb
Pictures @ Care2 ? Mb (visiting helps support environmental concerns)
Meanwhile, here's a set of links to them and to other Carving Consortium sites:
Continuation of "Art Makes a Difference Day" Art Drop project Not an eboard, but a Carvers' Consortium project led by Tom Tadfor Little
Found stamps swap Thirteen postcards made with stamps that you never realized were stamps
Ariel most of the pictures have one or more hand-carved stamps somewhere
Carvingsonly, Sharon Scheel, scheelsm
Kinga Britschgi, former swapkeeper
Libby Magnello - aka Libster -- mostly crazy quilt work on this eboard so far
Linda Berman, CC moderator This way to the CC mail art sheet of rubber
Michael Nathan, nathan Two of the notes are stampings
Nancy Douglas, RAK list keeper
Rachael Innes, ricats gourd masks from multimedia swap
Raven, keeper of the magik bag
Rita Mulcahy in South Australia
Ruthann Zaroff, ruthann not an e-board, but a personal carving site
Shani Richart's Create and Inspire board (the password is "becreative")
Susan Houghton, Susan in Kansas
Tara Kuschel - Mrs. Wizard Compu-Doctor
Photopoint is another web site that lets you put together a gallery of pictures.
Some CC members are using it in preference to E-board:
Cathy
Kristy of TimeToStamp
... and another one is Picturetrail.
Janine has a lot of carvings on her Picture Trail album. Check the sound effects on some of the pages, and the transitions between pictures in the Japanimation section.
Wilma Schaefer she's from Germany, so remember that "geschnitzt" means "carved".
CC members, if you decide make a page for carvings on either of those,
or if you hear of another similar web site, let me know and I'll link your page (or that web site) here.
Several CC members have posted albums on the Yahoo site. Yahoo doesn't seem to realize that people scan in things other than photos, so look under "Photo albums". Membership in the Yahoo CC group and a password are required for access to these.
Some CC members have web sites that aren't on one of those picture sites:
Ed Giecek's linocuts page ... and his watercolor and collage pageDebbie Kiest's page with portraits from photos, other carvings
The Carving Consortium Website with Guidelines
Information on how to join the CC, carvings, newbie questions, product reviews, and a lot more!
Eraser carvers have been chatting on the #eraser channel on the Dueling Modems crafts.dm.net server Wedensdays at 9, and there are often people on that channel at other times.
ITECI Website
The International Treasury of Eraser Carved Images, the gallery of the Carving Consortium with tons of beautiful hand-carved images.
The Carvonia Myrth Website
Fantasy carvings on the wild side! Teaching extraterrestrials about our culture through carvings? It's a little hard to explain -- check out the link.
To surf away from eraser carving through a portal to the wider world of stamping, click on StampGuide.com. It started as a class project at a community college in western Massachusetts and now has a huge list of links to explore.