Sweet Tooth Mail Art

Here are two of the envelopes I made for the Sweet Tooth swap I joined a few months ago on Swap-bot.  

I really had fun making these and even though I'm not very good at drawing, I gave it another try, lol.

Also, I cut out some sweet goodies from magazines and used a few stickers.

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St. Patrick's Day Envelope

This was a swap on swap-bot to decorate an 

envelope for St. Patrick's Day.

Here is the one I received from Valerie520.

Isn't it great?

That's the back of the envie and the cute stickers

she enclosed.

Thank you Valerie.

I love it!

Here is the one I made for my partner.

Didn't turn out too well.

I'm just not very good at drawing. 

Maybe with lots of practice I'll

get better at it, lol!

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Envelope with hearts!

This was a swap I joined at Swap-bot.  We were supposed to decorate an envelope with hearts.

This is the pretty envelope I received. 

I love it!

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A big 'Thank You' goes out to VioletFaye for taking the time to make this envelope for me

and including all these awesome goodies.

Beautiful postcards and note cards.  

I was so happy to receive this.

This is the envelope I made for my swap partner.

I had fun decorating it.

It was a great swap!

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Sorry, the pictures seem really dark.

Outgoing Mail

Yeah, another attempt at drawing.  It was for a swap, to someone, who loves 

Betty Boop.

I really messed up the stars though lol.

The recipient loved it and that was my goal.

I was happy about it!

This one was another swap.  No drawing involved here, lol.

My swap partner loves butterflies, so I made this envelope

and she loved it.

It makes me happy to know, that I was able to make someone smile

with my mail.

First Handmade Postcard

I participated in a swap with Swap-bot to make a handmade postcard.

This is my first try at this.

The theme was the month of January and what it means to you.

Since that is my birthday month I made this card.

It made it alright through the mail

and the recipient liked it.:) 

This is the card I received for this swap.  

It's made of fabric and sewn all the way around the edges.

It's kind of hard to see, but it also has stars and January 

sewn on it.

Pretty neat, huh!

Christmas ATC Swap

After making my first ATC, I felt a little bit more sure and joined the 'Christmas ATC' swap on Swap-bot.  This time I had 2 partners.  I think they turned out ok, but I still feel like such a beginner.  Since, I can't draw at all (just stick people lol),  I have been just cutting, gluing and embellishing.

Somehow, after all these years, I'm trying to bring my creative side out, if I have one, lol.

My very first ATC

After a long time looking at and admiring the ATC's (Artist Trading Cards), that I've seen all over the internet, I finally decided to give it a try, even though I'm not very creative.  I joined a swap on Swap-bot, called 'Embellish those ATC's.  I really had fun making it.

Here is my very first ATC.  I made a butterfly theme, since my swap partner likes them.

The title is "Carefree"

What do you think of it?

Outgoing Mail Art

Here is a piece of mail art I made for a Beginner's Mail Art swap at Swap-bot.

My swap partner likes giraffes and plays music.

It didn't quite turn out like I wanted, but I hope the receiver will like it! 

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This is an envelope from recycled material.  

Some of my very faves.

Diet Dr Pepper Cherry Vanilla 

and a Cookies & Cream Hershey candy bar!

I didn't align the back paper right.

Need more practice at this mail art thing, lol!

Incoming mail from last week

Had a really good mail week last week.  It was fun finding all this great mail in my mail box, besides just bills.

These are postcards I received for the North America Round Robin for October on Postcrossing.

Love those cards!!!

This awesome envelope came with these 6 awesome postcards from the Quick Post Card swap on Swap-bot.

My swap partner picked all the cards I really love.

Thank you so much for all the lovely cards.

A lovely pen pal letter from South Africa.

She included an awesome key chain with the South African Flag and Currency.  

I love the bills, they each feature a different animal.

She also enclosed 2 beautiful postcards for me.

Thank you so much Antoinette for all the goodies and your lovely letter.

Two more great pen pal letters.  

It's my first letter from both of them.

One is from Heidi in Atlanta.  You can find her blog here

And the other with the beautiful Australia map card is from a pen pal 

I met through Postcrossing.

Thank you both for the lovely letters.

Mail Art Received

Received these 2 awesome mail art letters from a pen pal in Virginia and a pen pal swap at Swap-bot, from California. 

Love them!!!

The Mail Art I Made

Outgoing

This is the envelope I made for the 'Beginner Mail Art' swap at Swap-bot.

It took me quite a bit of time, but I thought it turned out alright for my first try.

What do you think?

I was a bit worried about it maybe coming apart in transit, but I'm happy to say, that it was well received.

Already signed up for the  'Beginner Mail Art 2' swap, since I had so much fun making this one.

Front of envelope.

Back of envelope.

My first received mail art

This is my first mail art I have received.  I was so excited to find these in my mail box.

I think decorated envelopes like these make it even more special to receive, since I know how much more time and creativity was put into them, besides the written letter, which of course is always special. 

This was one came from a participant from Swap-bot for the Beginning Mail Art swap.  I really love it and I was so happy to receive it.

I love the stamps too and it's my first Owney stamp.  So cuuute!!!

That's the back of the envelope.  I really like the notes and butterfly.

And inside I found a nice note and this very cool magnet, which I love, since I'm a big fan of the classic movies like this one showing Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. 

This cool envelope came from a nice lady right here in Virginia, who contacted me to be pen pals.

It's great isn't it?  Her stationery was really neat too, with a typewriter on the writing paper.  (Sorry, I forgot to take a picture of it.)

And as a bonus she included a bunch of little goodies, like tags, tickets, stamps etc. I can use for mail art projects.

Thank you again to both ladies for sending such great mail!