Showing posts with label acorn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acorn. Show all posts

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Nutty About Mail Art

Hello again,
 it's me Tera here with a fun piece of mail art, that is just because I can.





When it comes to mail art I usually have a rhyme or reason,  but today I just created to create.  I basically picked stamps to use just because I liked them, and regardless of theme. 

To start I began with a standard A2 envelope and stamped the fun little acorn.  I masked it off then stamped the doodle circles and grunge plus signs. ( I used them as an x)

The row of chevrons was used to create a focal spot for the address to be easily observed.   

Now that all of the foreground stamping is done, I used various blue and green distress inks to lay color down on the background until I got a fade I was happy with. 

From there i decided to add my background by stamping the numbers and dictionary page randomly in various distress inks.   




Now to finish everything off i removed the mask and colored the acorn using a water brush and zig clean color markers. I also used black glitter pan pastels to edge around the acorn giving it a little bling. 


Stamps Used:

Numbers Set 2 1/2 x 2



Thank you for checking out this tutorial, I hope it inspires you to get creative today!