Monthly Mail Art – January 2017
Hi all! Kristina here! I’m excited to share with you a new monthly feature here at the Simon blog: Monthly Mail Art. On the first Thursday of every month I will be showing how I create a custom mail art envelope. This month I’ll be sending an envelope (with a card inside, of course) to Kelly Marie of Lawn Fawn. :)
Most envelopes are not made out of paper or cardstock that can handle lots of stamping and watercoloring, so I first created my own envelope out of Strathmore Bristol paper with the aid of the We R Memory Keepers 123 Punch Board. This punch board does envelopes, bows, and boxes. For this envelope, I followed the instructions for an A2 envelope.
I stamped images from Lawn Fawn’s Fairy Friends stamp set and ink blended some Distress Inks from the edges of the envelope. I then watercolored the images using Zig Clean Color Markers.
I used Concord & 9th’s Perfectly Penned stamp set to add Kelly Marie’s name on the envelope and wrote the Lawn Fawn business address below.
Before the last step of applying some Distress Micro Glaze, I made sure to add the postage stamps. The postage stamps won’t stick to the envelope if the Distress Micro Glaze is applied first since the glaze seals off the surface and makes it fairly slick (it protects the paper from moisture so it’s perfect for protecting all the ink and watercoloring I did). So just to avoid having that problem, I stuck the postage stamps to the envelope first. Then I rubbed the Distress Micro Glaze into the envelope using my fingertips. Once applied over the entire surface, I buffed off any excess Distress Micro Glaze using a dry paper towel.
I hope you enjoy today’s envelope. And yes, this will definitely go through the mail! You just have to make sure the address is legible. :)
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wonderful mail art! never thought to use the glaze so it doesn’t run. thanks for sharing
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
My granddaughter (who is 5) just moved to Colorado, so I will be sending her a lot of snail mail … this sweet project is right up my alley for CUTENESS !!!! Thank you for the tutorial !!!
Thank you so much for the tut! Loved it! Will certainly try this out!
I LOVE this! It’s so cute.
Kristina, This is just so perfect. Anyone would love to get this in their mailbox, even if there was nothing inside :).
That is such an awesome idea! The envelope looks so elegant!!
Wow – I would love to get that even without a card inside! Amazing!
This is really beautiful! Fun idea!
This is awesome! What a piece of art, love it.
I am SO going to love this series! such a totally gorgeous Envie Kristina! TFS
LOVE it!!!!!
Such a cute envelope!Love it!
Such a beautiful envelope. And great tip about Distress Glaze
I would hate to send this through the mail.
I’ve gotten envelopes with shoe prints,
wheel prints – I’d cry if that was on
an envelope sent me with all of this
beauty was defiled.
It’s a wonderful idea. Would
really brighten somebody’s day.
thanks for sharing.
That is just so pretty – the center of the panel just glows.
What an amazing idea!! I LOVE it!! I’ve never seen mail art before and watched the video in awe. I’m fully inspired by your beautiful creation!!
What a fab idea! And such a beautiful envelope, love it!
So cute!
This is beautiful! Thank you for the video.. I am going to try making some..
beautiful work!!
Bee-utiful work of art. I would hesitate to mail without putting it in a padded envelope to protect it.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
The cuteness! What a cool idea!
This is lovely, Kristina!
So pretty! Love the beautiful envelope….really doesn’t need a card it’s so lovely! :)
Wonderful idea, makes receiving mail even more fun.
WOW such a gorgeous envelope!!!
I just got this stamp set!! I will be using it a lot and not just for cards!! Your envelope is so beautiful!! Thank you for reminding me that doing the envelopes make the card just that more special!!
The postal workers will enjoy delivering their mail a little bit more now! I am SO going to try this! Just beautiful Kristina!
So nice!!!
Wow this is so lovely! Getting an envelope like that must make happy mail even more special!
Love the envelope and I love when you’ve shown videos on mail art on your blog before and I love that this is going to become a monthly feature!! I just got my Concord & 9th stamp set so I can address envelopes and never that to do stamp it out first for alignment, thanks for that tip and I love the idea of the micro glaze to protect the distress ink work! Great tips in this video and a before envelope, thanks for sharing.
Really gorgeous envelope. I always do something on my envelopes to brighten all that blank space, but yours is just absolutely wonderful. You can send me a card anytime…would certainly brighten up the day’s mail. Thanks for the great design ideas and tips.
OMG! Such a beautiful envelope!!! A cutie piece of art!!! I would love to get this in my mailbox even without a card inside!!! <3
OMG!!! This is adorable and soooooo pretty! Seriously, one of the best ever ideas ever to be featured on the SSS blog!
Your shading is AMAZING!!!
Wow!! Such an Amazing envelope!!! Really Pretty Kristina!!
Wow, this is gorgeous – I wouldn’t want to throw this away if I received this lol!!!
I absolutely love this work and it is just beautiful! I too have a grandson who enjoys receiving snail mail. I’d be super thrilled to create some scenes for him to view with interest. Thanks for opening this area to me/us! Denise
Adorable envelope! thank you
Super cute envelope.
Wow, this is would be so beautiful to receive in the mail!
Beautiful, creative and fun…love the idea of the microglaze x
I LOVE this post! I’ve been doing mail art for the last few months and I enjoy it so much. This had given me so many new ideas! Thanks SSS and thanks, Kristina. Your work is always so inspiring.
Beautiful Kristina!
This is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing.
This is sooooo adorable and pretty!! Love the envelope. Excited about this new monthly feature!
So Sweet, Love it. I do dress my envelopes, but I learned a lot from watching your video. I will now use the T.H. Glaze, what a great tip and there was some other great tips, awesome video, thanks and I am looking forward to the next one next week.
How lovely!! Thanks for the info on the glaze to seal the watercolor, I was wondering how that would work! :)
So very cool. Just delightful!
Gorgeous Kristina – I will need to get some glaze before sending a project like this through the mail. My only concern was putting glaze over the postage and wondering if that would affect the “cancellation” by the post office.
Outstanding work!!! Would be so sad to see it destroyed in the mail though!