Alphabet Canvas

I used Golden coarse molding paste and lots of different stencils to make this.

Wooden Heart

I bought a wooden heart which I altered for the happy couple. I used Golden coarse molding paste to make the raised letters with a card stencil I made. I used my Zing cutter to cut out the stencil. Then paint and a bit of roughing up.

Floral and Doodle

Two floral arrangements done on the tablet

and a doodle from a 'real' sketchbook. The white lettering was achieved by transferring letraset letters onto the page then removing them after painting, so they acted like a resist.

Mail [TAW] and Frog Paintings

Take a Word - Mail

The map of France & the Victorian Beauty [in a circle] from the Graphics Fairy

The letters - public domain images, cannot remember where from.

More frog paintings from the 'shelter' project.

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Altered Flower Book [p38] and Mail Book - Dracula

on the right - made flower from dyed fabrics, papers, stitching, string [in the stalk], painted skeleton leaf, on the left - paper flowers, painted with acrylics, pen centres

painted paper and aged with distress ink [click on picture to enlarge]

Mythical Mail - Jack & the bean stalk

A lot of the words are hidden behind the beanstalk which lifts up partly, but not so that I could scan properly so I have copied it:

The envelope is addressed to

Jack Bean, Pulse Farm, Pea Lane, Stalkton, Nutshire

and the letter is from Stalkton Council, Nutshire and reads

Dear Mr Bean

We have received complaints about the size of your beanstalk as it is obstructing the view. Are you aware that you need to obtain planning permission for a plant of these dimensions?

yours faithfully

Mr Builder, Planning Regulations Department

{this is page 20 of the Mythical Mail book which includes recycled stamps}

Mythical Mail - Nemo

Mythical Mail - Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Hupty Dumpty had a great fall

All the King's horses and all the King's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again

Mythical Mail - Page 13, Dumbo

Mythical Mail - cover

I had a sketch book sitting on my shelf for quite a while as I wasn’t sure what to do with it. As the pages were brown paper, the kind you wrap parcels in, I eventually decided that the book would be good for a subject to do with mail. I had fairy tale characters in mind and made a start but soon got a bit ‘stuck’. Thanks to my friend Helen & her daughter we had a brainstorming day which got the old brain cells working and after that the ideas kept coming. The book was finished last year & I really enjoyed doing it.

All the postage stamps in the book are not my art work but are original ‘recycled’ stamps from around the world, which I have been collecting for years. Helen kindly donated some too from her stash. The extra post marks which were not already on the stamps were rubber stamps purchased from ‘Crafty Individuals’.