I just uploaded a 2007 video of me showing off a very cool Mail Art piece I got from Anna Brooker in England.
Yes, its a few years old, the video isn’t great and that’s why I never shared it online… but I decided, today, it’s better to share it with other pals, so they can also do COOL mail art — instead of waiting until I like a video of me.. grin! (that won’t likely happen).
Sometimes the simplest things in life, give us pleasure….
Lotsa Stamps on Your Letters!
Just printed and stuffed some Kids Pen Pal Lists to mail this morning. Felicity from England is going out today… so I put SIX coloful USA stamps on hers!
A pink rose, American flag, blue bird, apple, Santa, Uncle Sam… fun fun! Kids get excited opening their snail mail, but imagine a little girl in England getting something bright and colorful!
I never use all the “old” stamps I have… I use the postal machine, much easier, but I thought this little girl might get a real kick (her mom too) seeing all the USA stamps!
I know *I* do when I get mail that someone stuck a few different ones on it!
Happy Writing!
p.s. Wish the photo were better, but I need to get ready for work… and couldn’t resist reminding you to look for pretty, cute colorful stamps as they DO add to the snail mail excitement!
Marney from Artella, a gal I’ve followed for several years now… watching, watching, watching all her artsy fun! This week she is hosting a free tele-class! Just thought I’d post it here in case someone wants to join me there!
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Check out her website… creativity galore! I bet this will be a great class!
2.28 – this free teleclass was sooo inspirational.. just awesome! I didn’t sleep half the night as my brain was on fire thinking, thinking, thinking… all net fun!
I made some new printables today — used some old British postal stamps from the Postal Passion art kit from Artella and made some printable stationery for your letter writing!
Need new stationery? You can print it out from the site or download and print over and over! It’s free!
I use oodles of Artella artworks in my own Art… if you like these postal images, check out the Postal Passion collage art kit that I used to do these!You get OODLES of unique pieces to print or use digitally! Enjoy! Wendy
OK, can you even BELIEVE these photos? This is a tame deer that came to visit… where he/she is from, we don’t know! I looked outside to bring Chi Chi back indoors, and there’s this DEER staring at Chi, and Chi is staring right back! We don’t live in the country, though their is a few acres of land behind us… who knew a deer was lurking out there!?
p.s. Sorry for the quality of the photos… I was waaaaay up on the deck, and I just took zoomed photos. *I* surely wasn’t getting THAT close! Grin!
Check out the “changing shape of tea”…. I got this free sample teabag of a really nice Green Tea with Mandarin Orange today! It’s a really nice lightly fruity taste and smell.. loving it!
I wouldn’t take the time and effort to tell you about just any old teabag… but LOOKEE this one! Its a triangular shaped bag.. isn’t that too cute?!
Here is some quick envelope art… art doesn’t mean perfection, it can mean FUN, exciting envelopes in your mail box! Help me stamp out boring envelopes!
Just big cheap foam stamps, the kinds kids use, stamped randomly over the envelope — on two of them, I tore a picture from a magazine… and used my handy-dandy glue stick to stick it! Perfect! Grin!
Click any of them to see them larger.. no picking on my funny Mail Art!
I decoupaged the top of my coffee table, years ago, with snail mail postal stamps from around the world!
I’ve published a pen pal newspaper, for fifteen years, called Inky Trail News. Over the years, I’ve kept the stamps — methodically, ripping them off envelopes weekly and I’ve got oodles of them for projects (if and when I find the time).
One year, at Thanksgiving, I decoupaged stamps all over the top of my wood coffee table. The table was about twenty years old, and although it still looked good, I wanted more color in the room.
At first glance, the table top, from afar, simply looks a lighter color (compared to the dark wood). When you look at it closer, you’ll see the variety of colors and the different shapes of the stamps. I love it!
The photo doesn’t do it justice… this is only one small section of the tabletop, but I thought the pals out there might enjoy seeing what you can do with a little decoupage glue and some used postal stamps.
My coffee table, decoupaged with postal snail mail stamps!
I put the stamps on rather randomly — but you could easily use only stamps with red on them, or all the same stamps for the border of your object, or make patterns like mosaics. I didn’t do any of that – just randomly scattered them about the tabletop.
Happy Writing! Wendy
This is my first attempt blogging with WordPress after watching a Martha Stewart special on tv today — focused on blogging. No, I’m not usually a Martha watcher, but the show was great! It was a repeat of a September show, broadcast again on New Years Day!
I have a Google blogger account, but never really used it much. I publish two websites:
Just Having Fun! Wendy
