Postcard Mail Art

Hi Everyone!

Since this month is all about Mail Art, I thought I'd show you how to make this bright and fun looking postcard with some materials that you probably already have!

 I'm all about thinking outside of the box and if I can save money doing it, well then alright!

To make this, you will need the following:

1. Medallions Ornate Stamps (I used a small design, but any will work!)
2. Petals and Flowers  
3. Pink background paper of your choice - Can be store bought or water-colored.
4. Thin cardboard. (I used a cardboard insert that came with some processed photos)
5. Clear Packing tape
6. Black pigment ink pad
7. Peacock feathers oxide ink.
8. Gold acrylic paint and a stipple brush or other dry paint brush. 

Cut your card board to a standard postcard size.  About 5.8 x 4.1 inches. 

Cut your background paper to a little smaller than the postcard.

 From the Petals and Flowers stamp set, ink and stamp your choice of a leaf all around as a border.

Next, ink and stamp any medallion as much or as little as you want.

Add a touch of gold here and there.

Then distress the edges with the black ink pad.

Overlap strips of the clear packing tape and lay across the top of your card, sticky side up.

Using your black pigment ink, stamp directly onto the sticky tape. Don't rock the stamp or the image will smear. It helps to stand up while doing this part so you have better control in your stamping process. 

When you are done, flip the tape over and apply carefully the tape to the front of your card. 

 (Think of how you would apply a window decal.)

Press the tape firmly all over the card and trim off any excess. 

So cool right? 

The packing tape technique not only looks great, 

but it helps protect the postcard from 'elements' as it travels to its destination! 

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Snail Mail Colorful Postcards!!

Hello! Today, I am sharing snail mail postcards that are fun to make and fun to receive in the mail. I just love getting colorful stamped mail, don't you? All the red rubber stamps used are from Blank Page Muse.

These postcards are made with -
Poppy Line Drawing
Classic Car Front View
Background Roses
Let the Adventure Begin Sentiment
4 1/2" x 5 1/2" white cardstock
TCW Stencils
Versamark ink
Ranger Embossing Powder - Black and White

To create the Poppy card, using Distress Oxide inks in Squeezed Lemonade and Picked Raspberry and blending tools, apply the ink to the card front. Then lay the stencil over dried ink and apply DO Carved Pumpkin to create the background. Finally, using the Poppy stamp and sentiment, ink with Versamark ink and heat emboss in black.

The second card was created the same way but use Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron with the Classic Car Front and Let the Adventure Begin Sentiment.

The third card used Background Roses stamp and sentiment with DO inks in Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron, Picked Raspberry blended over the background then the stamp was inked with the same three colors and stamped onto the card. the sentiment was heat embossed in white.

Here are the finished cards, hope you enjoy creating your postcards!

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Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!!!

Hello Stampers!

Wow we are nearly halfway through the year - time flies when you are having fun stamping!

Have you been enjoying our themes for this month?

Today I've created a "patriotic" postcard - of course I'm an "Aussie" so it has a "Down Under" feel LOL but of course this can be adapted to wherever you are from!!!

Supplies:

Blank Page Muse Stamp: Cute Baby Animals II Set "Koala"

6 x 4 Index Card, Postcard or Card cut to size

Old postage stamps from "your" home country

Dye Ink Pad - Brown Shade (Memento "Rich Cocoa" used)

Your Fav Colouring "tools"

Stencil and Gesso

Ink Sprays

Computer Generated Wording OR Rubber Stamps

Postcard "Backing"

General supplies/tools: glue stick, glue, scissors, spatula, paper towel, sewing machine

Instructions:

Start by covering the entire index/postcard with postage stamps - adhere with a glue stick. When dry trim the overhanging stamps.

Use your favourite stencil and a spatula to apply thick white gesso to the postcard. Allow to dry.

Using a spray ink lightly spritz the postcard to colour the white gesso. Use the paper towel to "mop up" the excess ink. Allow to dry.

Glue the printed postcard back to the postcard front. Use your sewing machine to "edge" the postcard with a "zig zag" stitch for interest.

Stamp the "koala" stamp onto white card using your brown ink pad. Colour with your choice of medium (Copics used for this project). Fussy cut the stamped image.

Adhere the koala and wording plus any other embellishments you like to the front of your postcard and it's all ready for posting to a penpal!

Hope you can find some inspiration from my project today!

Have a great week!

Sharon

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Postcard Journal

Hello everyone! So glad to see you back. This month's theme was Postcards and I first had this idea when I was going through my old vintage papers and other stuff, I remember my grandma having this old album full of postcards, it was crazy fun to look through and hear all of the stories she remember about each one. This had me thinking of a way to create something similar and just as fun!

Here is the cover of the postcard album.

Supplies used
Blank Page Muse stamps -
Correspondence Pens, Ink and Postage
Tall Flamingo
Dear Beach sentiment
Classic Car
Lady and Man Clock
Grungy Circles and Crackle

Watercolor paper
Tim Holtz Embossing folder
Rub N Buff Gold
Lumiere paint Green Gold
Ribbon
Hole punch
Paper Scorer
Map piece
Washi tape
Postage stamps
Distress inks in various colors

Start by cutting your watercolor paper into postcard sized pieces with about 1 1/2" extra for the binding holes, then score the pages at the 1 1/2" mark and holding tow pages together punch the holes in all of the pages.

Set aside 5 pages and paint the front and back of the covers with the Lumiere paint. You can use any paint you have on hand, I just like the old vintage look of the Green Gold.  Then using the embossing folder, emboss the front cover and stamp with the Postcard stamp. Using the Rub n Buff light rub it over the raised images. Take some of the Distress ink in black and rub it along the edges of both the covers for an aged look.

Next, you will start on the postcards, for the first one, stamp images all over the card and them using Distress Inks smoosh them over the images.

For the second card, use the Distress inks like watercolor, paint and splatter the background, let dry and stamp with the Flamingo stamp, Dear Beach sentiment, and Florida.














For the next postcard, glue down the map piece and use Distress Ink in Vintage Photo to distress the paper then stamp the postage marks and stamps on the map, then add some real postage stamps to the front along with the Dear Beach sentiment.

For the fourth postcard, I used the Grungy Tread stamp and the Classic Car stamp along with the postage stamps and stamped the card. Adding washi tape for added emphasis.  Then using an alphabet stamp set added Arizona and Route 66.

For the last postcard of the bunch, I stamped the Grungy Circles and Crackle stamps on the background then used Distress Ink around the edges and on the Dear Beach sentiment and the Woman and Man Clock stamp. 

Hope you like the Postcard Album that was created for the June theme of Postcards at Blank Page Muse!

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Snarky Mad Hatter Postcard Greetings

I love Alice in Wonderland so when Kim brought these Alice in Wonderland stamps by Rick St Dennis to Blank Page Muse stamps into the store then were immediately on my MUST HAVE list! 

 I think  they are perfect for this month's post card challenge. 

Blank Page Muse Supplies 

Alice in Wonderland stamps by Rick St Dennis 

Chicken Wire Mesh 

Other Supplies

Postcard

Distress Markers

Snarky Sentiment stickers

Stamp the Mad Hatter from the  Alice in Wonderland stamps by Rick St Dennis  onto a postcard. 

Stamp Chicken Wire Mesh  over the background.

 Color image and background with Distress Markers and Water brush.

 Add Snarky Sentiment to finish your postcard!

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Steampunk Winged Wisdom Postcard

Stephanie here and I can't wait share my Steampunk Winged Wisdom Postcard. I have had a fondness for steampunk as long as I can remember. This Vintage Steampunk Gentleman with Wings stamp is so detailed and gorgeous! I know most usually use muted browns and such to color vintage images but I love color...lots of color and wanted to make this postcard vivid. So lets get started!

Blank Page Muse Stamps used:

Vintage Steampunk Man with Wings

Other products used:

Tim Holtz Distress Oxides

Tim Holtz Stencils

Watercolor Paints

Waterbrush

Fine Liner Pen

Directions:

First of all I must say I think this stamp doesn't need any enhancement at all. All the fine details in this Vintage Steampunk Gentleman with Wings are absolutely amazing!! That being said I just had to add some color :) I stamped this handsome fellow on watercolor paper.

The next step I stenciled the background using Tim Holtz stencils and Distress Oxides.

To give the image a more aged look I spritzed the background with water and used a paper towel to lift some of the ink.

I added stenciled purple splat on top of the green. Again I spritzed the purple and lifted color. I also added some purple ink to the edges of the postcard.

Here are a few close up shots of this dapper gentleman gracing this vibrant vintage postcard.

I added a quote around the edge of the edge of the card because I wanted the winged gentleman to be the focus. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and are inspired to make your own!

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Embark on a Travel Adventure

Hello all the Blank Page Muse stamp Fans. We are at the end of July already. Can you believe that? I hope you all are having a great and fun Summer. Here is a Sunset colored postcard I made.
Can't you just see these colors on a hot Summer night as the sun is setting?

 Stamps Used:
Mountains & Beaches set

Other Supplies:
Watercolor paper
Nuance Powers
Cloud stencil
White Paint
Black ink
Washi Tape
Word stickers
Marker
Heat Gun

Start off with a 4x6 watercolor paper. Wet the paper and then add your colors of Nuance watercolor powers to it. Make it look like a hot sunset. Use red, orange and yellow . Use a heat gun to dry the watercolor postcard. You can let it air dry if you got the time for that.( not me)

 Next grab a cloud stencil and some white paint. Make some clouds on the top of the postcard. Let dry.

 At the bottom of the postcard, stamp the mountain . You have to stamp it 2 times because it does not fit all away across the bottom of the postcard.

 At the right side stamp the palm tree from the same stamp set. Then add some washi tape.

Stick a strip of washi tape on the left side to balance the finished piece.

Lastly, add swords to create your saying. 

Take a fine tip marker and trace around the words to make them stand out.

Now, come join all the fun!

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