Happy Mail...Mail Art

More mail art going out today. I've received some very cool handpainted papers, ATCs, tags, charms, and postcards and pictures from around the world doing these trades the last few weeks.

Friday....off to post some "mail art."

More "mail art" going out today in return for the goodies I received this week. I even got some original art work in the mail this week!

I am using this as a planner and I carry it in my purse. There has been discussion in the Documented Life Project group about this. Many of the members have other planners on their phones and such, and for them this is mostly an art journal, but mine is full of notes and lists. I'm putting in little pictures from the week too. If something happens during the day that I want to remember, I jot it down.

Happy Mail..Mail Art

 It's Friday, so some happy mail is going out. I am not doing heavily doodled envelopes now, because they take a lot of time. I realized I'd have to quit "happy mail" if it took that long to make an envelope. So, this week I painted the envelopes and did a quick stencil. I like them, and I think they'd make good collage bits.

The back side was messy after the painting. So when I cleaned off the stencils, I rubbed the ink right into the stencil again...lighter image, and looks kind of cool. Waste not,  want not.

Happy Mail

Another mixed media artist was so sweet to send me some clip art from the 1950s, so I'm sending her some treats in the mail. I hope she likes them. This is the back of the envelope. What I send is mostly vintage papers like pages from old ledgers, old game pieces, and such.

If anyone wonders what is in "happy mail," here is one I received from Nicole Maki (click on her name to visit her blog). There are many hand printed papers in this collection...yea! I am happy about that. I've been admiring papers people print themselves using a gelli plate, but I haven't tried it, so I'm very glad to have some to use. She also made her own envelope from a Beatles poster. I'll be using parts of that in a page this week. She has an altered playing card in there, and some paper printed in another language. Good stuff I can work into collages!

It's Friday. Time for Happy Mail

It's Friday and that means it's time to mail out some "happy mail." I'm in a  swap with some other mixed media artists/journalers. Every Friday we mail out some collage/art supplies to another swap member. Mine are usually vintage things like sheet music, book pages, maps,  and old postcards and photos. That's because as an antiques dealer I have lots of those! I'm also mailing out a tiny charm that looks like a journal in each one. I sell them at the shop along with several other transportation themed charms.