Mail Art

Paper airplane I miss you card Show you care with this whimsical and nostalgic card. It looks great on white cardstock, but choose your favorite color and print this instant download again and again. All cards are hand drawn in black and scanned by me at IKEnCreate. Card will fit in an A6 envelope, but a printable diy envelope template is provided for your convenience. Entice a smile with this lovely illustrated card. What's included: Black and White Printable Card in PDF Envelope…

When time is at a premium but you still want to create a striking piece of mail art, look to one of these three tutorials! Each one comes together in just about ten minutes -- though your recipient would never guess that.

An idea from Pinterest. Below is a link to the original. The non-candle strokes on the original look like bent wire. It would be fun to do something closer to the original, but for the sake of copyrights, it is probably better to stay a little further away from the original. And yes, all those extra crossbars on the t are because the very first one was the one that slants down, and it looked sad and droopy, so I added all the other frou-frou…

Ever since I created the wild strawberry mail-art for my Secret Pen Pal Scavenger Hunt pen-pal, Corey, I've been majorly drawn to painting antique botanical-style mail-art. I had more fun with this series than I have had in a long time. The only problem being the photographs: it would appear tha

Isn’t it exciting when you come across a craft project and think ‘I can do that!’? After seeing the work of the talented Lindsay Hopkins (aka pen_and_paint) on Pinterest one day, I knew I could take the basic concepts of the piece and do it for myself. Nowhere near as well or with as much charm …

Sharing tips for envelope art for the unartistic. Ideas for snail mail to your pen pals by creating envelope art with stamps, stickers and washi tape.

Hello! Before we get into this blog post, I just wanted to share some exciting news, that I'm on one of my favourite podcasts - Tea and Tattle - this week! We are talking all about letter-writing and slow-living and all kinds of other lovely things. It would make me feel so good if you popped on ove

(written on Sept 11, 2019) (re-written on Dec 26, 2019) Originally I wrote: I have 30 days to fill in 2019. This image popped up on my morning surf. It reminded me of my own thoughts of having a grave marker of my own that looked like an envelope and was stamped *Return to Sender.* But, my family doesn't do graves, we scatter. (More blah-blah-blah has been edited.) More from 9-11-19: Whew. What a year. Maybe 2020 will give us a subliminal message to see things clearly and nudge things in a…

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106 Likes, 4 Comments - UK Letterers (@ukletterers) on Instagram: “Ok @mimiandtheduck ... could you have made cuter envelope art?! Hands up if you want one tooooo!…”

I can't help it, I got so used to the delights of White Wednesdays, I have to carry on for a little while longer. Whenever I am making something in shades of white, or listing something white, I think of White Wednesday. So today you get a whole bunch of pics in shades of white and cream, lol. I am working on a little project at the moment which called for this, a tiny little cone with the littlest frozen Charlotte doll - Of course I have also been making tags, lots of tags to go with…

MARABOU DESIGN IS AN INNOVATIVE DESIGN STUDIO LOCATED IN THE BEAUTIFUL PACIFIC NORTHWEST. FEATURED IS A COLLECTION OF WORKS BY AWARD-WINNING CREATIVE, BRANDY BROWN. DESIGNING WITH THE MODERN FAMILY & THEIR EXTRAORDINARY FRIENDS IN MIND, SHE BELIEVES THAT FUNCTION AND CLEAN DESIGN GO HAND AND

If you have a few minutes to make some lovely and unique envelope art, then you'll enjoy this simple tutorial! Get your tea bag tags ready!