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| Don't you wish you could be a little kid and head off to summer camp? I sure do! I am having a little summer art camp of my own with inspiration and help from some of my wonderful mail art pals. Dori Singh Mail is some of the best mail to get and Dori has inspired me a lot. She often sews on her work and she does a lot of cool folding. So, inspired by Dori, I made this little folder to mail some things to a friend. |
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| Gelli Printed cards and envelopes After my play date with Leslie Sowden. I have been having a blast printing with my gelli plate. I made a set of cards and envelopes. It was more fun painting with Leslie but gelli printing is pretty fun no matter what. |
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| Collaged Postcards As usual, I am doing lots of collage cards to send out. I've started using some of my own family photos. The originals! |
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| OUTGOING I have a continued love affair with vellum envelopes. |
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| Another inspiration from Leslie..... Get some of these rings and a hole punch and ..... |
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| Sort your postcards into landscape and portrait stacks. Punch a hole in the corner and load them onto the ring. Great way to organize your postcards and have them available to look at (rather than ticked away inside boxes). Thanks, Leslie! |
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| I've got four rings of them so far....... |
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| Envelopes/Letters on a ring And since postcards worked so well on the rings, I thought, why not put envelopes on one too? Doesn't this look cool? |
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| And then there was the long stitch workshop at SFCB with the fabulous Jennie Hinchcliff. Jennie is truly a wonderful instructor and I highly recommend taking a class with her if you ever get a chance. |
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| The workshop was great and I have nailed the long stitch. |
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| BUT....I need help and more practice with certain other aspects of making books. The paper I choose wasn't strong enough for the stitches and ripped as you can see here. And I made my spine too loose.... I am looking to see if Jennie is teaching a longer session on book making because I obviously need it. Maybe I'll see some of you there! |
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| OUTGOING MAIL |
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| OUTGOING Collage postcard |
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| Altered vintage postcard series Summer Camp would be more fun with some play-mates so if anyone wants to come on over, please let me know. Special thank you to Leslie and Dori for inspiration. And to Jennie Hinchcliff for being an awesome instructor. (As they say in books, all mistakes are mine). I am busy punching holes and gluing and cutting paper and generally having fun. What are you all working on these summer days? Lots of fun coming up here in San Francisco -- The fabulous Vintage Paper Fair is back on the weekend of July 26 and 27 and you KNOW I am going to be there. Just being in a huge room filled with vintage paper makes me happy. Renegade is coming to SF too -- and Donovan and Kathy from LWA -- so I will be there too. And we are having a July Co-Op meeting too. Lots of fun to be had. Who says summer vacation is just for kids? SEND GOOD MAIL --- GET GOOD MAIL |
