Going Postal 2012: Art Journaling with security-envelope patterns

Hi, hi, hi.

My penultimate contribution to the the UKScrappers' Art Journey series is now available to read and download [here] from the forum.

And, fittingly for this week ... it has a postal theme! Surely you'd expect nothing less?

So today I'll talk you through one of the finished pages I created to illustrate my thoughts on art-journaling-with-postal-items:

The postal items used on the top half of this page have a very literal contribution as they came from the envelopes of contributor copies of magazines I recently had work published in ... and it's the magazines themselves which are the subject of the page.

So here the form matched the substance of the page:

The 'Great British Design' phrase was cut from a furniture brochure which still drops through the door each new season when we've never bought anything from their shop.

And here I created a rather spiffy postmark hat for the heroine of the page:

Meanwhile, at the bottom half of the page I swapped-out her handbag for a 'Printed Matter' stamped message from one of the envelopes I received.

I then filled in the gaps around her with a selection of circles cut from my collection [yes, I collect them] ... of security-envelope patterns:

For the record, you should know that I only collect the envelopes to use the patterns in my papercrafting ... I don't have an actual archive of pristine security envelopes stashed away.

Honestly!

The wording below came from the furniture brochure again and also remainder came from a magazine:

So, that's a closer look at this specific page but don't forget you can download my wider discussion about using postal items in general [free of charge] from the  Art Journey section of the UKScrappers forum under 'Step 19' .

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If this has whetted your appetite for using security envelopes on your projects: you could browse the Going Postal Pinterest board as they feature on there already, from last year, for example:

• there's my 'Lens Envy' scrapbook page;
• and Kirsty Neale's decorative-tape tutorial

plus ...

• I'll be back here tomorrow to share the 2nd art journal page I made for this week's Art Journey,
• and ... in Friday's post I'll share another card - both of which also feature security-envelope patterns. 

Feel free to link up your own postal post anytime - or else share anything pertinently postal over on my Facebook page, and I'll see you tomorrow.

OK,  I'll leave you now, so you can go and find the silver lining [well, a patterned lining at least] within that pile of mail you've been avoiding filing away ...


Julie :-)