Mail Art. I love receiving beautiful, hand painted envelopes, especially when they have international postmarks and stamps. For a new Paper Traders exchange, we will be trading decorative envelopes.
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Front of a finished envelope |
Using a favorite size envelope as a template, I traced the shape on several pieces (double thick) of painted deli paper. They looked pretty good just with splashes of color, but I went another step and added stencils.
I also was required to add a mailing label, which changed the whole look. To offset the big chunk of white in the middle, I added strips of other designs, washi tape and stamping.
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Mail Art envelope: painted deli paper, stamps, stencils, paper strips, newsprint. |
For other envelopes, I used some ho-hum leftover artwork, traced on the template, and cut to size. Once it was cut and folded, a sort of boring design became a very striking envelope. I especially liked the NYC stencil, from
Michelle Ward's exclusive collection at The Ink Pad NYC.
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Stenciling experiment |
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Artwork cut to envelope template shape |
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Back of finished envelope |
3 comments:
cropping yielded amazing envelopes. miss them.
wonderful Linda!
Collage alert! These are wonderful.
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