Another mailART day inspired by one of my mastermind partners. I had cut the lighthouse envelope (how cool is that, no book is safe from me now!!!) and then she spoke about her metaphor of a lighthouse for her new project. I was inspired and at the same time found the new owner of that envelope.
Making connections like that makes me happy 🙂
This is a ‘stay strong’ card for somebody special. I found this ‘Star War’ wallpaper recently which makes awesome envelopes. I am definitely going to do more of those. Just need to work out how I am going to get Joda up the right way 🙂
I had forgotten that I made a lot of these little booklets once upon a time. They are filled with funny quotes and I have all sorts of topics going. They are alle going to new owners in the coming months!!! All they need is special treatment to give them some soul and a MailARt worthy envelope.
This time I went into my stack of wallpaper samples. They make just fab envelopes!
This is German with a lisp 🙂 and means ‘Must celebrate that’
I love the double entendres one can play with in English and I tried out a German version. I admit it will take some thinking, but what are heads for.
It ended up as a birthday card for my brother. The moustache is created from a double cut of a paisley die cut shape plus a selection of letter from my stash and washi tape.
This set makes me laugh. The birds are talking about a fabulous woman, whom I have come to admire very much. She is doing some wild things! You go girl!!
I have been travelling and working away from home so much, that art took a back seat for too long. I am home for a while and have started a new project that is really important to me.
First of all I would like to connect more with people I know and want to know better – away from social media. Secondly I want to make my mail fun and use them as an outlet to practise.
I am making my envelopes and cards from scratch and it is a whole lot of fun. God, I have missed this so much!
This is my first effort – a thank you card for giving me the opportunity for lots of new ideas.
The light bulbs are embossed with WOW clear embossing powder and came out great
This MailARt piece came out so cheerful and it went to somebody I should speak to much more but somehow the years slip by and we have not.
I always remember some fun times together in Windsor many moons ago!
It took me a while to get back to it, but I recently participated in another ATC swap. Which means, I must be having some time for art 🙂
The theme was succulents and cactus (but I think it should say cacti … you know, both being plural or me being picky?) 
I used inks, acrylics, pan pastels and a PITT Artist Pen and remembered why it is such fun to focus and work on a theme!
Have you seen the prices of those embroidered cushions? Astronomical!!
So we made some of them as presents ourselves. My niece and I played with Accucut dies and had to be inventive because we knew we wanted moustaches!!
This is the first one we made:
We used the Accucut paisley die cut and doubled it up to make the moustaches and were very pleased with our result 🙂
The next one was lots of fun too. More Accucut brackets, birds, butterflies, wings and a border – all die cut with different materials. 
I have never worked with fabric and as a lesson, felt works best for die cutting and the stick on ‘no sewing’ method we used.
As an avid paper crafter, I am quite pleased to find a different use for my dies. It gives a lot of the shapes a new lease of live.
An now we are going to enter the Accucut competition. Thank you for opening it up internationally Accucut xx
I wanted to create a little album to give someone special some ‘Thank you’ vouchers.
I was in need of pockets and this little album is perfect! This particular pocket album design is by Lori Whitlock for my Silhouette cutter. But you do not need anything fancy, the colour and embossing combination would work great on a normal greetings card too.
This month we do not have a design brief!! So I indulged by starting with one of my favourite colours ever: Golden turquoise acrylic paint. Just use paper that does not warp when painted. Water colour paper is good, but I am working a lot with lining wallpaper. When the paint has dried it is smooth and becomes quite stiff and works beautifully for 3D projects. And it works great with heat embossing. Did I mention that it is very cheap too?
I gave all my pockets two coats with the acrylic paint for a rich deep turquoise and the cards which slide into the pockets got one coat for a lighter colour. Both versions are very nice! I think it also helps to not paint too neatly. This way you will get some instant and interesting texture more like fabric than paint.
To emboss, I opted for my my favourite WOW stamps: Vintage wallpaper plus the rose from the Simply Amazing Set and chose gold embossing powder as a contrast to the colour.
Voila……. instant designer look. It feels very rich and expensive! I will come back to this colour combination often, I am sure!
Now I just have to think about what I am going to write on those vouchers and slide them into the pockets of my album.
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