Lawn Fawn Outer Space Envelope – Monthly Mail Art, March 2017
Hello, all! Kristina here with another Monthly Mail Art. :)
For this month’s envelope, it all started with the moon postage stamp. I thought it would be fun to incorporate the postage stamp into the design. So I paired it with Lawn Fawn’s new Out of This World stamp set.
I created a simple ink blended galaxy on a Brilliant Ultra Heavy White envelope using Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Mustard Seed, Chipped Sapphire, and Black Soot. The stars were created by drawing dots and sparkling stars using a Uniball Signo Broad white gel pen.
The astronaut was stamped and masked off during the ink blending, then colored in using Prismacolor Colored Pencils.
As for the address on the envelope, I made sure the area behind the address would remain white and then used a black pen to write the address. I didn’t want to use additional postage, so I had to make sure that this envelope remained “machinable,” or that the machines at the post office would still be able to read the address when sorting the mail. If it would have been nonmachinable, I would have needed to put more postage on the envelope (and that looked a bit strange next to the circular moon postage stamp).
To protect the envelope from any moisture, I sealed it with Distress Micro Glaze.
Anyhow, I hope you like this month’s Monthly Mail Art. It was fun!
This envelope is ‘galaxy size’ awesome!
Great envelope! :)
I love how you dress up an envelope, that’s some real happy mail!
Wow! Gorgeous!
WOWZERS!This is awesome! Thanks for the video!
Love Kristina’s hand lettering! :o)
This is so cute … it makes me want to try my hand at it. Wonderful job.
Oh c’mon…..how ridiculously cute is THAT!?!? It could be empty when it reached my mailbox lol LOVE it!
Wow, so cute!!
I just got this LF set and LOVE it. My Great Nephew and I will have a ‘blast’ with it. Love the tip for sealing the envelope…added to my ‘wish list’. LOVE you Mail Art…so cool. Thanks for sharing with us!
Very creative & beautiful! Bet all the people who handle this on it’s way to England will be awed!
Wowsers! Nuff said.
Out of this world wonderful. I make little bits of mail art, but yours is nothing short of fabulous. Thanks for the wonderful design ideas.
Very cool mail art! Love the galaxy background!
I also want to receive post!! Such a wonderful envelope. With so much love!!
How cute is this!
Beautiful galaxy envy, Kristina!
Stunning idea – I def wouldn’t throw this away lol!!!!
Love it!
I so adore her work and your site in general, SSS. I bought my Tombow markers from you as well as 3/4 of my stamping/call.igraphy supplies. I will file this video, now that I watched it, with my brush lettering info. Thank you.
This is so awesome. I love the colors.
Wow, can you just imagine getting this beauty in the mail?! Gor-geous!!!
The envelope is fantastic and I love that stamp! :)
What a fantastic envelope! Not only will the recipient love it, it’s sure to bring a smile to all those that handle it in the post.
Out of this world CUTE !!
Love the envelope and I didn’t know that they had forever stamps for international cards! Good to know! I have a couple friends who live overseas so I will be getting some of those stamps. Love the envelopes you’ve been doing lately. Thanks for sharing .
wow this sweet envie is sure to bring smiles every step along the way to the lucky recipient!
Love the space theme as my husband and two of my sons work at NASA.
Wow!!! Super cool!!!
Ohh this is so cool! I’ll be CASEing your for sure! Thanks for the inspiration – I always look forward to your mail art posts :)
This envelope is awesome! :)
What a super adorable way to dress up an envelope!!
Delightful!
WOW!!! that is an amazing envelop
I never remember to do this but I absolutely love it!!!
Kristina, I will give you my address to use for mail art!!!! Just saying….this is fab and I loved the one you did for Kelly at Lawn Fawn too!
I hope this gets delivered in good shape. It is truly out of this world.
Your envelope is OUT OF THIS WORLD. I know, pretty corny. I just couldn’t help myself. But it is amazing. The stamp finishes it off perfectly
This couldn’t be any cuter! I love it!
I think these mail art posts are my favourite SSS feature! I just watch each video in awe! I’ve purchased Distress Glaze (from SSS!) and just need to give an envelope a go myself!!
???Kristina’s mail art! This puts my pretty pattern paper envelopes to shame, this is amazing. I need to get me some distress glaze for shire! thanks for sharing!
Wow! Your envelope is Out of This World, Kristina! I have always loved our global, international postage stamps. You found the perfect way to incorporate this unique postage stamp into your envelope design! Micro Glaze is waiting in my cart right now! ♡
Like the Astronaut & space theme of the envelope.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Super fun and ultra cool!!…beautiful galaxy background for this cutie image!!
The envelope is adorable! Just love the sky…
WOW what an amazing out of this world envelope!!!
How beautiful! Wish we had fun postage stamps like that to incorporate into envelope designs!
I love the beautiful inked starry sky – adorable!
Very pretty!
such a fun envelope. . . love it to the moon and back