It's in the Post; Scattered Letters

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

Today I've a bit of a collage project to share using the  'Petal Postage' April Wax Seal of the Month and the 'Scattered Letters' April Glimmer of the Month

I bet Spellbinders didn't know when they themed the April kits around sending snail mail that !!th April is a significant day in British postal history, and perfect for today's Daring Cardmakers' challenge!

It's In The Post

April 11th 1855, London
Britain's first pillar boxes are installed, and were a green-bronze colour
The iconic bright red everyone recognises was adopted in 1874
Be inspired by all things 'snail-mail' this week; stamps, letters, mail boxes, postcards
How about actually sending what you make and surprising a friend!

 Create anything you like cards, tags, postcards or 3D project

Its up to you!

I took the collage effect of the Scattered Letters Glimmer plate background a step further by foiling it on different colours of card, then cutting out some of the 'letters' to build my collage bacground,  I used a dark green card blank so they would really show up well.

I adhered a small length of lace across the envelopes, then die cut lots of little flowers and leaves in the same pastel colours using Scallop Journal Cards from the Simple Vintage Flower Shoppe Collection 

  I used the bottom left of these seals for this collage.  It's another 3 layer one using the 'pour and scrape technique'; white flowers, green trellis, blue base layer. I trimmed down the base layer to leave the postage stamp shape, then matted this onto white and green card, I and added some tiny gems to the flower centres and glued in place, adding a small ribbon bow at the lower corner. To finish I added a few scattered pearls and gems

 

 

 

I used:

 April Wax Seal of the Month 

(Petal Postage

April Glimmer of the Month
Scattered Letters 

Scallop Journal Cards 

flowers and leaves

from the Simple Vintage Flower Shoppe Collection 

 

Green card blank, coloured card scraps for foiling, blue and black foil

 

Tiny gems, pearls, lace, ribbon

   Just a Note

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself,

 

 Kathy xx