Altered Key Ring and Envie

Over on a FB group I've joined we were sent a key ring to alter and then send on to our swap partner. I went very simple just using raspberry and sail boat blue alcohol inks on the frame, cut a printed image out and left the front panel clear.

This is the back.

And of course I then needed an envelope to send it in. So reaching for one of my many gelli plate prints I made this envelope and stamped and doodled over it to create some interest. PaperArtsy have a theme this week of mail art, so I'm entering the envie.

Mail Art Swap

Chris has set up a mail art swap over on mini marvels FB group. Mine are 3" x 4" and have been made on the envelope punch board from gelli prints using various Decoart multi surface satin paints.

I used two Teesha Moore stamps, the only two I own and some printed faces to decorate the fronts and backs of each envie. They just need a stamp and address label and they are ready to go.

Atc's using LP & Teesha Techniques

This is a pre-scheduled post as I am at Stevenage craft show at present and most of the recipients will have already had their atcs. So using the techniques we played with on the James weekend I made some atcs and a holder to put them in for everyone who went on the workshop. 

So I created a border using bits brought home from James's weekend. I was lucky enough to pick up some glossy mags from the local charity shop, so created the faces.

Border and image outlined in black pen and white dots added with white posca pen.

You can see them better on this one, on the red background.

For these I cut out loads and loads of faces, it took me absolutely ages, then stuck them all on individually!!!

I then gave them a wash using Golden transparent high flow paints.

This is the one with the dioxazine purple hue.

And this one has the quniacrindone azo gold.

And the third one is a Lynne Perrella technique of putting down loads of different coloured squares, again this took ages and then to glue each one individually, 35 on each one!

The dots are hole punched shapes and the fibers are from stands of wool.

And the final set, backgrounds painted with Dylusions as I wanted them bright. Again using leftovers from the weekend, I chose 5 images that had been stamped onto fabric.

And was umming and arrring, but finally took the plunge and decided to sew them on. As you can see, I need more lessons on the corners - lol.

The word is just stuck on with glue.

This is quite a thick material, but still worked out okay with the sewing.

I think this was Chris's chosen stamp which I kept borrowing!

And finally, this was my chosen stamp.

Then I set to and made some little book style holders. Each one holds 4 atc's.

This is the two outside pages with a couple of atc's in.

And the inside pages of the holder.

Close up of the single outside page.

And a close up of one of the inside pages.

Stood up looking at the inside pages.

And stood up outside pages. 

I then decided to put them in a box using gelli plate prints. The boxes were made using the envelope punch board. As I was putting a fastening on the box I needed to know who's was who's so put their names on the front and a little image.

Media Paints & Deli Paper

I decided to play with a few of my new Decoart media paints which are just lush, the colours are so vibrant and a little really does go a long way.

I randomly added drops of the green and the red onto a piece of deli paper and using a credit card, scraped the paint across to create the above.

For this one I used Magenta (pink - yikes) and orange and I actually think they work lovely together. As you can see, these colours seemed to spread better or I might of put a bit more on.

And for this one I used the purple which is absolutely gorgeous and the silver.

And this one, hansa yellow and blue but as we know blue and yellow make green so where they've mixed I've got green.

And finally teal and green gold.

I cut them down into squares and made envelopes and matching note cards using my envelope punch board.

So this is the whole set with the note card tucked in.

And this is the front, love how the stripes have come out.

PaperArtsy have a challenge theme of fragile papers.

M is for Mail Art

Artful Times are looking for our mail art for their challenge and Simon Says Monday are looking for the letter 'm' in any way shape or form.

Mail Art

After seeing what Chris (sorry hasn't got a blog 'yet') created using various types of papers, tissue, deli, waxed etc I needed to have a play too. I played with various thicknesses of tissue paper, some sort of wax paper and Reynolds freezer paper. I experimented with various makes of paints, Golden high flow, PA Fresco, Liquitex heavy body, Basics and Pebeo applied with scrapers, brayers and cut n dry foam and numerous stencils.

I decided to use some of them to create some mail art. As you can see from the front of the envies, I added various stamped images using black archival. I had already started to address them as yes, I actually posted them out to see if they would be robust enough to withstand the RM postal system, but then realised that was a bad idea as I had to cover the address so I quickly grabbed a photo before I put any more on!!!

And the backs. I used tissue tape to stick them down as hopefully it won't rip the envelopes when opened.

I hope the people that I sent them too liked them and more importantly, received them in one piece.

***Edited***
Every one has received their envies and they all arrived in tact - yay for RM xxx

More Gelli Print Makes

Sets of envelopes with matching notelets.

Little mini books with gelli plate covers.

And then them put into sets.

Tone on Tone

Over on the PA Blog Ellen Vargo is back with her wonderful backgrounds. For her first project of the week she has altered a manilla folder which you can see here. As I don't really use manilla folders I just did pretty much the same thing but on pieces of card.

As she used her new stamp sets which I haven't got yet, I had to improvise.

I also didn't want to put the tissue paper on as I had a different project in mind for them.

Used small bubble wrap as one of the improvises.

A free circles stamp we got at the workshop in Paris.

Large bubble wrap which stamped out really well.

Both sizes of bubble on this one along with some of Ellens stamps from the other sets.

Close up of the large bubble.

New circles stamp from Paris on this one, again more of Ellens stamps and a Sarah Naumann stamp.

Sarah Naumann script text added in black stazon to replace the tissue in Ellens original post.

And this is what I did with them using my WRMK envelope punch board.