At Home on Mail Art Monday

Hello Again! 

Today I am here to share some more fun and easy
Mail art Monday inspiration. 

This piece is actually a special one for me, because I was challenged by a friend (Freezeframe03)  to use my large chevron stamp on an envelope in a new way...
 So, I chose to go a sort of cart Journal-ish route... 

Stamps used:

Numbers Set

Writing Chevron

Doodle Frame

Three Staples

Six Staples

Staples X

Grunge Equal Sign

To start I stamped my writing chevron on a pre-painted piece of paper I had laying on my desk. I created a mask to mask of the chevron then stamped the numbers to create a sort of house like shape. To finish off the "house" shape, I stamped the equal sign as a door then used a pen to draw some scribble outlines. (Then I cut it out)

To create the Envelope base I began with a plain white A2 envelope. I stamped my doodle frame on the bottom to look like bushes. I used a scrap of cardstock to create a address block, then stamped the various staples.  I masked off my address block and doodle frames then used Tim Holtz Distress ink in salty ocean to add my base layer of color for the envelope. 

(I did not glue the house down until the end)

I used various green markers to color in the "bushes", then re-masked everything off. I used more of the salty ocean ink to stamp the numbers in the background as well as a touch of cracked pistachio. 

I also used punchinella waste as a stencil to ink layered dots to add extra depth to the background (using the same 2 colors as for the numbers). 

So, there you have it... 

Nice and Easy! 

If you have a bigger envelope this would be great to add a few Alice in wonderland characters...

(Or anything really, the sky is the limit!)

Happy Stamping!