Mail Art by Fran

Hey everyone!

Today for a change I've made some mail art with some Banksy stamps! I used a 7x5" envelope.

First of all I smooshed some distress inks onto the front of the envelope, being careful to mask off the area where the address needs to be written.

It was a bit patchy, so I filled in by blending the distress inks to fill in the white spaces and darken the edges.

I then stamped the main images onto the envelope with Versafine Clair  and also onto some thick paper with Memento so I could colour in with Copic markers.  I then cut them out to stick onto the envelope later.

Next, after heat drying the envie,  I used Versamark ink to stamp the Doodled Flowers stamp and embossed it with white embossing powder. I also used a bit of sequin waste the add interest in a few places. 

Lastly, I stamped staples and stitching images round the address label, then stuck on the coloured cut out images.

I didn't want to leave the back of the envelope plain, but I also didn't want to wet it again by smooshing colours, so I blended distress inks onto the back, used sequin waste and stamped the Doodled Flowers just in black, and the staples and stitching stamps onto the flap.

Hope you like it!

Stamps Used:

Banksy Boy Planting 20456 Plate1516

Banksy Swing Girl 19425 Plate 1443

Stitching 19575 Plate 1455

Six Staples 19578 Plate 1455

Doodle Flower Garden 19828 Plate 1471

Other items used:

7 x 5" white envelope

Distress Inks in Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn, Forest Pine, Twisted Citron

Versafine Clair in Nocturn

Black Memento

Sequin Waste

Copic pens

White Emblossing Powder

Versamark ink

Thanks for looking - See you next time!