Upcycled Crafts: How to Create and Send Mail Art

What You Will Learn?

• Are you a creative person who loves sending snail mail?.
• Join book artist Bel Mills in this fun introduction to creating stunning mail art with upcycled materials..
• Using a cereal box and a few other simple supplies, you’ll create a jaw-dropping piece of interactive mail art that expresses your creativity and keeps you connected to your people at the same time. No fancy art supplies or art skills are required!.
• In this class you’ll learn:.
• Which mail art materials you already have in your home.
• Tricks to working with found paper like cardboard boxes.
• Techniques for creating mail art, even if you don’t know how to paint or draw.
• The secret quality of paper that can foil your paper projects if you don’t know how to manage it properly.
• By the end of class you’ll have:.
• A ready-to-post piece of “naked” mail art with a pull-out folded message and button-and-string closure.
• Along the way you’ll learn a bit about the history of mail art, the phenomenon of “naked mail,” and how to navigate postal rules and regulations so your creative correspondence reaches its destination post haste! As a bonus, you’ll gain bookbinding concepts that will apply to all your future paper craft projects! .
• Now let’s make some mail! .