For some time now I have been saving security envelopes. You know - the kind that are printed inside so you can't read through the envelope and get someone's innermost secrets or bank account details.
Well Tony finally found out what I wanted them for.
Our mmartfriends group is having another Fat Book swap, this time on Techniques.
I decided to do a Serendipity Squares background using the envelopes.
First tear them into chunky pieces. Then glue them down onto a sheet of paper or card and make sure you cover all the paper.
Get out your rubber stamps and stamp all over the pages to help integrate all the various bits of paper into a whole. Then comes the fun bit.
I used embossing powder - gold metalic to emboss a few more stamped images on the backgrounds.
I enhanced the whole thing with a bit of scribble using watercolour pencils.
Cut out the squares to size.
In this case to show the technique we are doing 4x4 inch pages.
To use the squares you actually cut them much smaller, into "inchies" 1x1 inch or to use as the background to an ATC 2.5x3.5 inches.
These are some of the 22 that I had to make. The gold is a little dull in the scan. It is actually shiny bright.
Here is a single square a smaller piece that I had left over and an inchie .
As you can see each inchie is a mini art piece in itself. Imagine each of the squares divided into 16 and each one is an inchie Aren't inchies cute!!
Isn't that the best way to use up old envelopes?
