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Upcycled Crafts: How to Create and Send Mail Art
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1 hours 38 minutes
english
Online - Self Paced
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About Upcycled Crafts: How to Create and Send Mail Art
Introduction
Class Orientation
Trimming Your Cereal Box
Solving the Mystery of Paper Grain
Folding Your Cereal Box
Choosing Your Adhesive
Adhering Your Patterned Paper
Finishing the Envelope
Preparing Your Message
Pleating Your Message
Attaching your Message
Buttoning it Up
Ensuring Your Mail Art Arrives
Collage Bonus
Pop Up Bonus
Conclusion
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! .