Decorating envelopes

I met Patty in classes last year. Patty had recently retired and finally had time to explore her own interests. She was tricked into filli...

I love mail art, who doesn't? There's nothing better than receiving some good old-fashioned, hand-addressed mail, especially when it comes with art attached!

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Hey, while we are appropriating ideas off Pinterest let's go for some of the Matisse envelopes. There are quite a few with these Warhol-esque flowers, stripes and dab-dots. I used a Cocoiro marker which has a nice little brush tip. While I like blue and yellow, it was really hard to use this stamp on this envelope -- but there are no more yellows left in the stash. This might have been the month I learned my lesson -- do not start any envelopes until you have the actual stamps in front of…

Designing and decorating envelopes for open when letters is the best part! Here are 21 Open When Letter Ideas to inspire your inner artist!

Doodles on the back of envelope

First time exchanger Rivkah. She might have exchanged twice. I don't keep a log of exchangers - although I get curious about the numbers. This one is intriguing and it would be fun to do some variations. The pattern with the little dashed lines isn't exactly footsteps in the snow. But, the whole pathway suggestion is very nice.

Happy Wednesday, all! Last weekend I was in California visiting Lawn Fawn (for my friend Kathy’s Coloring Challenge Road Trip). While I was there, I drew flowers all over the covers of some of Lawn Fawn’s catalogs using Copic markers. It was so fun and I immediately wanted to come home and recreate some of ...