Mail Art

I submit quite a bit of work to different magazines (The Stampers'Sampler, Take Ten and a couple of others).  Sometimes I like to package up work that is done using one particular stamp line and is going to one particular magazine.  My latest art "crush" is anything by Dyan Reaveley.  I love her stamps, her spray inks, her style......  So I am preparing a few cards to send off to The Stampers' Sampler using her stamps and I thought I would put them in this large envelope.  It won't actually go through the mail in the traditional way.  I will put all of my projects in a larger postal box and send it off.  That is why the postage is faux postage stamps and they are already canceled, in case you noticed.

The envelope is a kraft colored one made from recycled materials.  It measures 10 1/2" by 14 3/4".  I used Dyan's stamps:  Dependable Dotty, Talllulah Tripp and the border stamp in the Further Around the Edge collection.  I like the way the heads and bodies are interchangeable and wings can be added, etc.  The hanging hearts instead of hair is a Stampotique stamp turned upside down.   The faux Postage Set is by Lost Coast Designs.  I liked using my Tim Holtz Distress Markers to color things in and I used Distress Inks to shade the edges of the envelope (Fired Brick, Wild Honey and Rusty Hinge).  The little bit of twinkle is from my Clear Star Gelly Roll pen.

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