Mail art postcards

Here are a couple more postcards I sent off for mail art.

The hot air balloon was heat embossed using WOW! embossing powder.

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Postcards

Here are a couple postcards I recently made to send off as mail art. I painted the background then added several postcard themed stamps. I heat embossed the orange hot air balloon. Not liking the orange color embossing powder I used... but do like the background on that one better.

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Mail Art Envelopes

My newest thing is mail art! 

I signed up over at mailmesomeart.blogspot.com and received some mail art via snail mail right away.

These are what I have created to send off to those that I have already received from. They are my very first two mail art pieces I have ever made.  So much fun to do. The inspiration for these envelopes came from Renee Stein on youtube. 

Lots more mail art postings to come, as I already have several more envelopes and postcards in the works!

Send me an email or leave me your address in a comment if you also enjoy sending and receiving hand made mail art. We can mail to each other!

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Altered containers

These started off as just plain whitish plastic containers with black handles. 

They were decorated for gifts for 3 little girls each in their favorite color with their names.

 Inside they will store all their pretty hair bows!

Lace, flowers, a couple strings of pearls, a strip of decorative paper and alcohol ink were used on each one.

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Artist Trading Card #3

The theme for this atc swap was leaves, and the style was grunge! (my favorite) 

The challenge was we could not use the color brown or any shade of brown.

I used corrugated cardboard as my background. Done lots of painting and embossing. The leaf I hand cut from paper. I painted, inked and dry embossed it. Fall is in the air is stamped and embossed. Mine was chosen as the favorite in the grunge leaves category so I did receive a little surprise from the host. 

I had a lot of fun making this batch and really love how they came out.

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ATC #2

I recently was in an artist trading card swap. 

The theme was apple and the style was vintage.
The challenge was we couldn't use lace, ribbons, or fibers. 

This is my second artist trading card I've ever made. These just may be my new thing to make, so fun!

 The vintage image I found online. I printed it out on tea dyed paper. Used my Martha Stewart lace border punch (paper punched lace was allowed) for the black strips at the top and bottom. Words I printed out from computer, cut, and glued them on. 

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Finish my tag challenge

I was recently in a "finish my tag" challenge. She sent us all a tag she started and we were to do whatever we wanted with it.

Here is the tag she sent each of us. 

The girl is not glued down so we may do whatever we want with her.

And here is my finished tag. 

I think it came out really pretty!

And we get to keep the finished tag!

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My Purple Grunge Tag

This is a purple grunge tag for a grunge tag swap I was in. Purple is my favorite and I love grunge so this is what was created! 

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Bee Themed Birthday party

Here are some birthday centerpieces I made for my cousins 1st birthday party. The bees and hive are cut with silhouette machine using files purchased from the silhouette store. Used Peachy Keen stamps for their faces. The base is just baby food jars wrapped with tissue paper.

Pin the bee on the beehive game

 Race to pick up all your paper bees and drop onto plate using a straw

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Altered Bottle

The swap for June was to alter a bottle. 

My partner asked for shabby chic, sage green, slate blue and brown. 

I first covered it in book/music paper.  Added lace and cheesecloth for texture. Gessoed it. Painted the bottle with some Italian Sage folkart paint. The image I found online. I wrapped cheesecloth that I dyed brown with Lindy's Stamp Gang - Moon Shadow Mist, around the beautiful picture. On the top of the bottle I glued in a knob, covered it with the stained cheesecloth as well. I added some flower trim from Stampin Up  (Robin had sent me with my paintbrush swap, thanks Robin!) that I painted Slate Blue. Put some pearl trim around and added lace.

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Vintage Junk Journal

 Picture heavy post!! 

I made this vintage junk journal for a swap I was hosting. My partner asked for a journal using an old book. It isn't real "junky" but I loved how it came out. It was the first time I've made one using a book and found it a bit challenging. 

I removed all the pages from the book and made my own signatures. Never done this before and I am new at sewing. I hand sewed the signatures into the spine to make the book. I cut a square out on the cover to place a vintage image in. Used old ticket stubs for tabs. Tried out tea dying for the first time! I tea dyed some of the papers and lace! I used lots of tissue tape and I used decorative border punches on the edges of several papers.

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Altered Light Switch Plate

I was recently in a swap for altered switch plates and a key. My partner said she preferred that it be more decorative than functional and that it be gray with hints of yellow, so this is what I came up with.

I first covered the switch plate with tissue paper to give it texture.Then glued down gears that I cut with my cameo out of paper. Next, I painted it gray and took embossing powder over the gears and heated it. I added little hints of yellow by using embossing powder as well. I added an eye peeking out, with wings as the main focal point. Little metal gears were added where the screws normally would go. I cut out the word "curiosity" from a scrap piece of G45 Old Curiosity Shoppe paper.

 And here is an altered key I made. Found the key really challenging and decided keys are not my thing..
I added a button with a gear I made with a mold and the melting pot. Wrapped wire with beads around the key.

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