A Merry Christmas Mail Art (2)

This is my last Christmas mail art to share for the moment.
Here are the steps to it.
1) Use a pattern paper as the base of the card. Distress the edges with the scissors distressing technique and ink it with vintage distress ink.
2) Cut out a square piece from another pattern paper. Distress the edges and ink it with black soot distress ink.

3) Cut out a rectangle piece from a third piece of pattern paper. Distress the edges and ink it with vintage photo distress ink.

4) Layer a strip of clear tape (Prima IOD Clear Tapes) on the bottom of the card.

5) Hand stitch a line on the left of the card. On the vertical rectangular piece, stitch some huge stitches on the bottom of it and add some silver liquid pearls to it.

6) Use a die cut tag to trace and cut out from a black card stock and doodle it using a white pen and some liquid pearls dots.
4) Add a Christmas clip art to the center of the tag and add some glossy accents to the clip art for some dimension.
5) The address box had been stamped on a white card stock and cut out. Ink the edges using brushed corduroy distress ink. Add some glitters (Stickles) on the address box, the clear tape strip and the clip art for some bling.
Hope you all like all the mail arts I've shared. I'll be posting a picture taken with some of the attendees from one of my workshop.

Sources: Card stock: Bazzill; Pattern Paper: Hot Off the Press Paper Pizazz; Stamps: Autumn Leaves; Inks: Ranger Distress Ink, Tsukineko Staz On; Others: Ranger Liquid Pearls, zig pens, Ranger Stickles, uni-ball signo gel pen, Prima IOD Clear Tape, floss for stitching, Glue Dots and other adhesives .

I'm in France!

I've arrived here early morning yesterday! I could not post this sooner as I have a hard time trying to find the wifi services here. We reached at the hotel too early for check in so we've decided to take a trip down to Paris. It was a very tiring but fun day. We've visited quite a few places in Paris and I must say that getting around for a total stranger here is really a huge challenge especially for someone who don't speak nor read French...lol! Anyway, here's some pictures to share.

I did get to meet with some other instructors for The PACS just now while at the hotel. I'll be off to the show soon. I'll try to post my last mail art and share a little about my first day at the PACS tonight.

I'm off to France for The PACS!!

I'll be very busy doing tomorrow before I leave for France. Therefore, I thought I would post about it now instead. Tomorrow, I'll be flying to France with my family. It's going to be a long journey and I'm a little nervous as to how Chloe will react as this is her first time on a flight. I'll be arriving in the morning of 9th Oct which gives me a free day to visit Paris.
Then, I'm going to be very busy on 10th Oct onwards till 12th Oct. I really hope I could meet more of you there. It would definitely made my day! For those of you attending my class, be prepare to get your hands and fingers dirty. (Important: If you have any cosmetic wedges or sponges (preferably the thicker ones which are used for applying wet liquid foundation), bring them to my classes).

I'll be travelling to Stockholm, Sweden on the 13th Oct and probably will be getting on a cruise to Finland. I'll be back in Stockholm on the 18th Oct and might be visiting some of the local scrapbook stores there and meeting some of my online scrapping friends.

I'll miss my scrapping corner but I guess I'll have loads of fun there. I've actually loads of projects done which I'll be sharing on my blog while I'm there. So, do not worry, I'll still keep blogging even though I'm far away...lol!

ok...with that, see you all from France!!

Jolly Christmas Mail Art

This is another Christmas mail art from me.

Here are the steps to it.

1) Use a pattern paper as the base of the card. Distress the edges with the scissors distressing technique and ink it with black soot distress ink.

2) Cut out a rectangle piece from a white card stock and stamp the snowflake image on it using solvent ink. Distress it using the scissors distressing technique and ink it with weathered wood distress ink. Hand stitch around it.
3) Cut a strip of scallop from a black card stock and paste it on the left of the piece above. Doodle some stitches on it using a white doodling pen.

4) The layering on the upper left and bottom right of the card are actually cut out from a stamp packaging and later doodled on it using a black and white doodling pen. I've also added some liquid pearls for details and dimension.

5) The die cut flourishes had been inked with weathered wood distress ink.
6) The title had been created using a label maker and ink with vintage photo distress ink. The word "Jolly" had been paste onto a felt tag. I've added some stitching and staples to the title for textures.

7) The address box had been stamped on a white card stock and cut out. Ink the edges using weathered wood and black soot distress ink.

I've just one more mail art to share tomorrow. Hope you all like all my mail arts so far.

Sources: Card stock: Bazzill; Pattern Paper: Making Memories; Stamps: Making Memories, Norsk Stempleblad AS; Inks: Ranger Distress Ink, Tsukineko Staz On; Others: Ranger Liquid Pearls, zig pens, Ranger Stickles, uni-ball signo gel pen, American Crafts Felt Tags, Bazzill Basics - Just The Edge, floss for stitching, Glue Dots and other adhesives .

A Merry Christmas Mail Art

This is one of my last 3 Christmas mail art to share.

The steps to it.

1) Use a pattern paper as the base of the card. Distress the edges with the scissors distressing technique and ink it with vintage photo distress ink.

2) Cut out a rectangle piece with a scallop edge from another pattern paper and distress it using the scissors distressing technique. Ink it with black soot distress ink.
3) Cut out a square piece from a white card stock and distress it using the scissors distressing technique again. Ink it with vintage photo and black soot distress ink. Draw a circle in the middle of it and doodle around it. Cut out a Christmas clip art and ink it's edges with frayed burlap distress ink. Paste it in the middle of the drawn circle.

4) Hand stitch some zig-zag stitches vertically on the left of the card and add some liquid pearls dots (silver) on the scallop edges.

5) Hand stitch a strip of ruffled pattern paper across the card horizontally. Add a flower to the left of the strip.

6) The title is actually a clip art print out which had been cut out and ink on it's edges using black soot distress ink. The title had been covered with glossy accents to give some dimensions and glossiness to the card.

7) The address box had been stamped on a white card stock and cut it out. Ink the edges using vintage photo distress ink.
I've been super busy getting some last minute packing done and the whole family is so excited about this trip. Do you all want to follow along my trip with me sharing some pics? I'll try to take more pics and share them here whenever I can. I've also created lots of projects to be shared while I'm away. And do keep an eye for Queenscraps Nov kit which I'll be featuring sometime around 15th Oct. Love this kit! It consists of one of my favourite manufacturer's line of pattern papers and embellishments!

Sources: Card stock: Bazzill; Pattern Paper: Scenic Route; Stamps: Autumn Leaves; Inks: Ranger Distress Ink, Tsukineko Staz On; Others: Ranger Glossy Accents, Ranger Liquid Pearls, Christmas clip arts, zig pens, Prima flowers, floss for stitching, Glue Dots and other adhesives.