PUT A STAMP ON YOU : CREATE A MAIL ART !

Since how long do you scrap?

For a long time without being aware of, because I decorated my albums but I am really leaning on the scrapbooking since I am in retirement, in 2006.

What do you prefer to do out of Scrap?   

 I like to do everything : pages, deteriorated albums, objects, ATC, mails art… I also like to test all the styles, in this moment I am interested much in the mixed media and the C&S.

Which are your preferred colors?

  All depends on the photographs, I do not have really preferably, I believe to use them all. On the other hand, whereas in my clothing or my interior, I often use neutral colors or pastels, I realize that out of scrap I more easily seek of the bright colors even flashy…

What brings scrap to you?

It is my great occupation ! I always have an ulterior motive scrap in the head… I can let express my creativity and implement all kinds of techniques which I used separately (joinings, paintings, watercolours, embroideries, seam…) by combining them, for my greater happiness…

Scrap also allowed me to have many friends via the forums where I take part;  to transmit what I know while animating of the workshops or via my blog and finally to take again a “community activity” while becoming demonstrator for an online shop (www.placedesloisirs.com).

In short, I opened out through scrap!

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Material 

1 envelope
Inks standard “” Distress””
Standard ink “” Stazon””
Standard ink “Versamak” transparent
Plugs
Transparent powder with embosser
Small rectangles of “cut-n-dry”
A carpet Teflon
A mini spray
An electric heat-gun for emboss

Documentation on postal art

well documented sites:
http://artpostal.com/
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/reine.shad/mailart2.htm

Emails art of all kinds:
http://roswithaguillemin.zeblog.com/c-mail-art-art-postal

Addresses of blogs artists of the whole world:
http://denis.charmot.free.fr/mail%20artistes.htm

A forum of email art:
http://artpostal.forumactif.com/

 Two practical works on the email art

 To create a “mail art”

Definition: The Mail Art or postal Art (or posted Art) is a form of art using the elements of the postal correspondence as well as the majority of the artistic disciplines.

This term recovers the whole of artistic creations travelling to discovered by the post office, comprising an address, a stamp and having been obliterated.

 Stage 1

Deposit traces of ink by rubbing the inking-pads on the Teflon carpet , without mixing them. Vaporize 2 or 3 pschitt water above and rub the envelope on it with a fast movement while turning.

If the envelope is not enough inked, it is enough to dry it with the embossor and start again in the same operation. However, it is interesting to keep some places without ink.

 Stage 2

With the cut-n-dry, take an ink “Distress” of a color different from those beforehand used, and ink edges of the envelope in a movement turning from the carpet Teflon to the envelope.

While supporting more or less with the cut-n-dry, one obtains different coloured effects. Tint also, possible “holes” not inked of the envelope.

To soften the colors, sometimes sharp, I pass a very light coat of white acrylic paint, applied with a plastic card. Let drying.

 Stage 3

Ink a cracked stamp with “Stazon” - always ink by tapping ink on the stamp and not the reverse - andapply it to the entire surface of the envelope.

Affix also in three places (in a triangular way) a stamp of writing.

Lastly,apply doodling stamps kind to decorate an angle.

 Stage 4

Choose imagination stamps - I used 2 butterflies - Ink with transparent ink and pose them on the envelope, then cover the butterflies with transparent emboss powder.

Heat with the emboss gun

Then, to emphasize them, it is enough to rub around with a contrasting color of “Distress”.

And here is, the envelope is finished. Be careful always to think of leaving a place for the address - to hand-write directly on it or on a label - and stamp it.

 Stage 5

To perfect your sending, you can associate a card with it to be cut in Bristol-board, tint it with the same colors of “Distress”, and by using the same stamps and the same techniques. Some peel-off will finish the deco.

And here, it is finished!

The email art:                                                       

The cardt:

I wish you a good scrap !