Handmade Envelopes

Remember this video I posted on making envelopes?

Well, I made 15 envelopes the other day while watching T.V. It was so easy and fast to make. I mailed out 5 envelopes to 3 people. I hope they like them. I made them all out of scrapbooking paper.

Also, remember this bookmark? Well, I made another one because the first one I mailed out did not make it to the person I mailed it to. The mail goblins must have taken it in route to Canada.

I made it a little different this time around. This time I used heart scrapbook paper as the back of the bookmark and I used purple ribbon instead of a bead. I mailed it out on Saturday and hope this one makes it to its new home.

Ciao! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl

Artist Trading Cards or ATCs

I think I am hooked when it comes to making ATCs. I made my first one a couple of weeks ago, which I am extremely sad that I forgot to take a picture of it. At least I remembered to document these before they are mailed out to their new homes tomorrow.

These skulls were made for an ATC swap. I drew the skull on white card stuck then I freehanded the design, colored it with brush markers, then I cut the skull, cut out the eyes, nose and check with my craft knife.

For the male skull, I covered the ATC blank with a cute skull scrapbook paper I found in AC Moore, then I glued the doll eyes and attached a bow tie.

With Flash:

Without Flash:

For the female skull, I made the skull as I did above but for the background I used a glittery spiderweb scrapbook paper and what I used as I bow tie for the male, I used as a hair bow for the female.

With Flash:

With out Flash:

The ATC below I made for an Alice in Wonderland swap. The person hosting it is doing a whole series of these. where you have to do an ACT for each chapter of the story.

This one is Chapter One:

I drew the background, except for Alice and the Rabbit.

Last but not least. This one is not an ATC but I wanted to show you guys anyway. I made the below bookmark for another swap. Thought I give it an honorable mention since I really like how it came out.

I need to make a few more ATC's when I am done I will post them here. But in the mean time I want to know what you all think? I know I can use some improvement. But I figured the more I make them, the better I will get.

Ciao! xoxo

~ Dissolved Girl

Weekend Crafts: More Handmade Bookmarks

The latest swap I joined is to make two handmade bookmarks for my partner from a nice graphic. After looking at my partners profile I saw that she liked to go to Broadway Shows. So I got the great idea to make her a bookmark using the image of a Play Bill and this is what I came up with:

Front:

Back:

The bookmark came out looking so great. I was so proud of myself. After I was done I went off to check my partners profile to see what else my partner liked to make the second one. Then I noticed on the swap description it said "No Computer Generated Printouts". That meant that the above bookmark was no good. I was back to the drawing board.

After some searching I found two very pretty and colorful birthday cards and I made the following bookmarks:

Bookmark #1

Bookmark #2:

I decide last minute to send all three of them to my partner. I hope she likes them.

Now here is the finished product of the card I showed you on this post:

What do you think? I really liked how the final outcome of the card. I only hope my partner likes it.

My pile of outgoing mail for this week:
It is so much smaller then what I sent out last week.

What do you all think of the bookmarks and the final postcard?

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl