December: Christmas or Happy new year!

I wanted to make 3 different style Christmas envelopes for this months mail art.

The first one is a traditional style, I painted the envelope red and put silver glitter over the wet paint, I used gold paper, a piece of eucalyptus bark to write the address on, and a drawing of a red robin.

On the back of the envelope I made 3 little angels with little golden soft wings and a big star.

The second envelope I made in icy winter blue. I used white shiny pearls, silver and blue ribbons, silver glitter and a piece that I cut out of a doilie as it reminded me of a snowflake. :-) and has a similar pattern as the ice blue paper and of course a matching christmas stamp.

The back of the envelope with silver stars, glitter and a little angel.

The third envelope I made a Kitch and colorful theme, with a floral reindeer, lots of color and glitter and a nice golden background.

 The back of the envelope again with glitter and a little Christmas angel.

This envelope is made by Nancy, I love all the little details, a music page of a Christmas song on the background, funny little owls, pretty Christmas paper in the shape of a X-mas tree, glitter, nice tape and curls and stamps in the same color and a  reindeer. Beautiful! Thanks.

 And on the back lots of pretty stars and a row of trees on the bottom.

This festive envelope is made by Nathalie, this envelope has some beautiful texture on it,  made with string that has been pulled apart and lace.   It gives a great effect. Also some nice white circle stamps , glitters and drawing of stars.  I also like the address on the star.

 And the back of the envelope, also with some pretty x-mas decorations.

November: Your favorite Marsian/Alien

 This funny and cute alien envelope is made by Nathalie.  She made out of silver paint "blobs" cute funny eyed and legged creatures. Also one of the aliens has a little message for Terry our Postmaster, which he found very amusing.

This funny but "scary" LOL looking envelope is made by Karen, this is the back of the envelope and she made a drawing with aliens showing the view from a person on the alien operating table, haha.

 On the front she glued a newspaper article about an alien encouter from our local postmaster Terry in Lismore. I also like the matching stamp with the green 3 eyed aliens.
I showed Terry the envelope and he was very amused with this and photo copied it. Thanks Karen.

I made for my alien mailart a shaped UFO envelope, I recycled some old cardboard, cut it in a UFO shape, painted it silver, cut a few little windows and put 3 green men behind it.

 When you pull on the bit of black cardboard that is hanging out of the bottom of the UFO and then fold it open, the aliens behind the window disappear and reappear in the lightbeam.
The message is on the back of the "lightbeam"

This one is from the imagination of Nancy:
i love the colors she chose . The background is made of different shades of green with a sponge effect. Black circle and star stamps with silver and the top of a cute alien head popping over the edge of the envelope.
I also like the stamps with the fish and lizards, they do fit in the alien theme, LOL.

 and the back of the envelope, lovely, thanks.

October: Black and white

This amazing zebra envelope is made by Nancy, I love it,it is a great simple design of a detail from the zebras head. I also like how the stamps are matching.

B&W Pinguin and zebra.

 And the stripey back side:

 This scary spider envelope is made by Karen, and she kept it in the Halloween style for this month, great. I am not a big fan of spiders but I think this looks very pretty, with the dotty spider web.

 Inside the halloween envelope , was a little halloween booklet: Trick or treat..

 handmade with paper scraps of scary halloween designs, a nice surprise.

 These envelopes are made by me, as we are just moved, I have an ocean of time and decided to make zentangle drawings on the envelopes and also glued some pretty black lace on top it.

 The back, also a drawing with B&W ribbon on the sides..

 This great underwater life envelope is made by Nathalie, she used white paint for the envelope, and fish stamps, she said herself a strange combination, but I think it worked out perfect.

September: Favorite book

This envelope is made by Nancy, and her favorite book is Lord of the rings.

Beautifully made, with the look of old yellowed pages and a picture of the wizard.

The back of the envelope also looks beautiful with the ring on it.

 And inside was also special, as Nancy made a great little booklet herself....

 and when you open it, it has all beautiful pieces of paper in it with quotes and text out of the book.
I especially like this quote about the wizard..

 For some reason this picture keeps turning to its side, so I gave up on trying to fix it, and left it like this, sorry, but anyway you can still see the beautiful drawing that Nathalie made on it.
Her favorite book at the moment is the one she is reading out to her daughter, called You and me

 with a text out of the book on the back, translates to english:
If you love me as much as 1 star, whispered little bear, then I love you as much as all stars together.
 Very sweet!!

These envelopes are made by me, and one of my favorite books is Alice in wonderland, meybe because I feel like Alice in Wonderland since I moved to Australia. Weird speaking people, strange looking animals and wonderful plants and flowers.

July/August Flamingo

Flamingo, the theme of the month July/August.
I am a big fan of flamingos, I even made 2 life size flamingos from paper mache, and they are standing in my garden. Yes, really!


These envelopes are made by Ivy:
A tropical envelope with flowers and palm trees cut out of garden magazines and 2 flamingo cut out of pages of a book:

For this envelope I cut out flamingo heads and necks and glued them on the envelope:

 I liked the simplicity of the color and shape of the flamingo, you only need a few lines to show what bird it is, for this envelope I used water color paint:

 This lovely envelope is made by Nathalie, she used a beautiful glimmery paper as background, she cut out the big flamingo out of the green paper with a pink paper behind it, and the little flamingo are glued on top of the green paper. Beautiful made, with little glitter stickers on it for the eye and flower hearts. The flamingos flew on their own here as they lost the stamp on the way!! Well done

This fantastic envelope is made by Karen and it is a very crafty piece of work.
It is a transparant envelope, stitched together on the sides and in it...

 is a golden egg, with pink feathers coming out and a flamingo with very long legs...

 and when you open the egg you can take out this gorgeous flamingo, wow!! great idea, I love it!!

This beautiful and colorful envelope is made by Nancy, I love the shape of the flamingo!!
Nice work.