A little one - envelope

More mail art! This time the envelope is not to be send anywhere but as a decoration on a paper-clip. Although I am curious what the smallest size is our mail service would send. A stamp sized envelope? The stamp could be on one side and the adress label on the other... mh.. I will try it! Definitly!

The envelope is really useable in the meaning of having a card inside. There you could write down little messages if you would give one of these away as a gift.

I made the envelope out of one of my inchies I made out of book paper. Just a little folding of the edges. I cut the upper pieces of the lower edge. The upper edge goes over it quite nice. I hade some adhesive (one-side!) tape behind the three lower edges to glue them together.

A little piece of white paper for the adress label and a little bit of red paper as a stamp. I just scribbled over both.

And a little bit of red paper for as a card. "Read me" i think is suitable for a book mark.

Fits in! And I like that the first word is readable. It was not intentioned but I will keep this in mind if I make another one :)

I cut with my paper knife through the bottom of the envelope, put the paper clip inside with glue and let it all dry. During the drying time I left the knife inside the envelope so the clip would just be glued to one side of the envelope!

My label is on the other side of the red little card ^^

I think this would make a tiny but useable bookmark!

Book marks...

For the last day of another stamping challenge with the topoc: "book marks" I finished two versions. Yes, last day, last minute... as often with me ^^ But I used the book marks to test another technique of application for pictures. I did it with the dragonflys you see above on the book mark.

No surprise, I love the images of the graphics fairy. ^^ There are some images I just can't get enough from. So you will see some more ideas and stuff made out of them. This time I printed several images very small and cut the, out. Sometimes with a little overhang because this small it is not possible to cut them out easy. But not necessary. Some of the small images I put on the glue side of adhesive tape.

Just put the stripes with the images in hot water and let it incubate for some time. I don't know what the minimal time is because in between I worked on my thesis. But it was abound 45 minutes? Less time I think would also work.

But the cut out images itself, even without adhesive tape, makes nice envelop closer! Like a kind of a seal :)

After the incubation time in the water just take the stripes out and carefully rub the paper off the back. It is really easy but at your first attemp make some more just for getting used how much pressure you need and how much pressure would be too much.

Yes, I am changing images. I forgot to make pictures from every images to every step. But the all stand as example for eacht other. Below you see the moth after rubbing of the paper. The background will now shine through. I left a little bit of the paper inside the moth so sometimes there will be white spots. Getting the image a little bit more rough or shabby.

This is how it looks on a coloured background. I love it!