Other crafts Update

Here is a bit of my mail art.  I made more envelopes from a chiptole bag, and I turned a big window envelope inside out, decorated it with Washi Tape, and it's ready to be used again. The others are for sending out swaps and letters.

This is the earring holder Ornery and I have been working on for our daughter for Christmas.  I have since painted all sorts of weird stuff on the frame, but this is the tame version. :)

Mail Art

I spent most of my day today in the studio restocking things--ATC backs and cardboard cut to size for stiffening those, and then making more of the little decorated glassine envelopes.  After lunch I wrote a couple of letters on my washi tape enhanced ledger sheet and graph paper stationary.

When I looked in my drawer for a fun envelope to put the letters in, I came up empty handed, so I got out a very old map of the Tulsa area and made a few envelopes out of it.

Of course they are also Washi-enhanced. :)

From the Long Weekend

I really should have more to show for a long weekend, but this is it for now...

Private Swap

Punch Art with a Touch of Orange

A to Z Fun

Front of a decorated envie

Back of the same envie

No special notes... Just that. :)

Mail Art

One of my new pen-pals is a mail artist, and prefers to send "naked" art (not in an envelope) so I have started replying in kind.  Here is our latest correspondence.

 The top picture is what I painted today.  It was the part I cut off of another project, and it had some odd splatters of paint already on it, so I added a bit more, applied some canned air (after almost passing out from blowing through a tiny stir stick!) and some stippling.  All is done with my Twinkling H2O watercolors except for a bit of glimmer mist on the upper right corner, and the Goosebumps texture spray which is clear and leaves a wet look to the surface.

This is what he sent with mine.

Mail Art

One of the places I have ordered my envelopes from for a few years is Clearbags.com.  I really like their envelopes, and they have a great price on them.  A couple years ago I tried some of their metallic leather-textured cards and really liked them.  I had ordered some envelopes as well, and I was hooked!  Since I have been swapping on SwapBot, I have used up all the old cards, and just can't seem to get ahead on making them, so I have started making a card relating to the swap to mail it in.  I had ordered several different colors of card bases, and have started using them for this purpose.

The card above is on a shimmery gold  base (white inside) and I added kraft paper torn on the edges to that with some dry adhesive (Dotto, permanent) after I inked the edges with Rusty Hinge Distress ink.  The stamp set is by Tim Holtz, and I used it on the card as well as the envelope--a kraft A2 from Clear Bags. All the inks are Distress inks, and the glitter I used on the card is Distress Stickles. Until this project I had used the Distress Stickles maybe three times... if that.  They added a nice little sparkle, but not too glitzy.

The butterflies on the card were stamped onto some stock ledger paper I bought at a yard sale a couple of years ago.  Then I cut them out and added just a touch of Distress Stickles onto the wings. It looked much better before I smeared the wet glitter. :(

This is for the Jigsaw Puzzle ATC with a butterfly on it.