Amazing Mail Art: August Flowers ~ Gladiolus or Poppy

 

Doodle journal # 6~3 We should NOT ...

 

Doodle journal # 6~2 I have nothing to say ...

 

Doodle journal # 6~1 Flowers make people better

Another three pages of doodle journaling.

2025 ATC swap #35 ~ mushroom

Theme: mushroom

Materials:

recycled cardstock

paper napkin

fine liner ~ black

acrylic paint markers

gel pens

Amazing Mail Art (AMA) ~ Monster mania mail art series #1 ~ Skeleton

The skeleton is cut at 3 1/4". The 'Eek!' is cut at 3/4". Both are cut out of sturdy black sketch paper. I found this image on the Artiste cartridge.

Materials used:

Cricut cartridge ~ Artiste

recycled cardstock

tissue paper

paper ~ black

acrylic paints

fine liner ~ black

gel pen ~ white

All About Handmade Postcards ~ Black & Yellow collage postcard ~ August

Mixed media used:

recycled cardstock

handmade paper

Chinese tissue paper

Cricut Artiste ~ Eek

cat image ~ received from a swapper

acrylic paint markers

ribbon

Amazing mail art ~ Pass & paste #129 August

For a decorated base I used liquid watercolour. To embellish my part of the postcard, which is marked A, I cut out a hand holding a feather pen. This image is cut at 1 1/2".

Materials used:

Cricut cartridge ~ Sentimentals

Creative Artist aquarel paper

kraft paper

Coloured cardstock ~ gold glitter

fine liner ~ black

ATC challenge August

For us to create an artist trading card without using pre-fabricated items. My choice is a watercolour ATC and some drawing.

Materials used:

Creative Artist aquarel paper

Avec liquid watercolour ~ warm (red, yellow)

Avec liquid watercolour ~ cool (blue, green)

fine liner ~ black

Amazing mail art ~ Negative space #3

This negative space technique isn't easy! Cutting out an image and mix 'n match a replacement with which you create another scene or story. Well... here is my attempt.

Material used:

recycled cardstock

magazines cut outs

Another napkin decorated envelope

Decorating a boring plain beige envelope. I'm sending the "Traveling PC's World #108" to the next swap partner.

Paper napkin decorated envies and cards #8

To decorate two notecards and matching envelopes with paper napkin. I used the scrap to decorate the notecard on the inside.

napkins

card & envie

front of the card

back of the card

front of the envelope

back of the envelope

the second notecard

I used my Cricut cartridge ~ Sentimentals to cut a backing for the napkin front panel. Just a fun addition to the card.

card ~ back

Here I added a little extra on the inside of the notecard using scrap from the front layer. Just cute😊

card ~ back

card & envie

envie ~ back

For fun I also cut a key out of kraft paper, which I found in the Sentimentals cartridge. It is cut at 3 1/4". Finally I cut a greeting also from the Sentimentals cartridge using patterned cardstock; cut at 3/4". Both sent to my swap partner. I forgot to take pictures😞.

Material used:

Craft sensations luxury cardstock with linen structure ~ beige, blue

Craft sensations cardstock ~ Textures & backgrounds

kraft paper

paper napkins

2025 ATC Swap #33 ~ Citrus

Using a tutorial online. I guess, I did a good job in watercolouring this citrus painting.

Material used:

Creative artist ~ aquarel paper

Colour pencils

Fine liner ~ black

2025 ATC Swap #34 ~ Dragonfly

Theme: dragonfly. The wings of the dragonfly are on foam tape ATC, making it 3-D.

Medium used:

recycled cardstock

Craft sensations luxury linen cardstock ~ green

Avec paperpad ~ butterflies

tea label

tissue paper

Home deco chalk acrylic paint matt ~ armadillo

Decotime dot acrylic twinmarkers

flower stencil

fine liner ~ black

Only Art Trading Cards (OATC) ~ open theme

I started this ATC a while ago and I do not remember why I started it or the idea/mood behind it, thus a true open theme ATC😃.

Medium used:

recycled cardstock

magazine - cut out

newspaper - cut out

Artist & Co - paint sticks

fine liner - black

Amazing Mail Art (AMA) ~ Key or keyhole shaped ATC

I went for a keyhole, but I wanted to do a key shaped ATC. The key shaped would be a huge challenge which may ended up in a huge mess. For the keyhole I used my Cricut Artiste cartridge. The keyhole is cut at 3,5" as the measurements of an art trading card requires. I finished the keyhole off with a white gel pen.

Medium used:

Luxury linen cardstock

Wibra cardstock ~ gold

gel pen ~ white

Doodle journal #5

Three doodle journals as my mood was on that day.

Mixed media:

recycled cardstock

fine liner ~ black

Creative Artist pastel sketching set ~ graphite pencil, woodless pencil

Artist & Co ~ paint sticks

colour pencils

erasable gel pens