Saturday, 9 March 2013

Alpha Challenge - Letter M

At the Craft Barn the alpha challenge this fortnight was to use a word in your dictionary between Ma and Me, after a couple of days flicking through my very old dictionary I decided on the word Mail - a coat of steel, to arm with mail or send by mail. 



I chose the " send by mail " option.

The pages were covered in fired brick distress stain before being stamped in vintage photo and black soot. The stamps were from Portobello road - urban stamps, Glitz - background stamps and Tim Holtz stampers anonymous AirTravel for the aeroplane (just right for the By Air Mail stamps).

The word Mail and its meaning were framed in white paint applied using the edge of a credit card ( kept for just such occasions) the airplane was also pre stamped in white paint giving it a bit of a shadow under the black soot.
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9 comments:

  1. Scrapmate9 March 2013 at 16:14

    I like the Royal Mail red colouring and the shadow effect on the plane. A good choice of word and an interesting depiction.

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  2. Annie9 March 2013 at 21:15

    Lovely red for your Air Mail with Love! This was my word also, so I love seeing your illustration and air delivery theme. And I'm curious as heck about what might be sticking out near the back of your dictionary...

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    1. Sara9 March 2013 at 22:59

      Hi Annie thank you for the lovely comment and here's what's sticking out t he back its from my letter V page http://mypreciouscraftymoments.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/alpha-challenge-letter-v_19.html

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  3. Elaine10 March 2013 at 15:32

    Great depiction of mail and good colour scheme!!

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  4. Maggie12 March 2013 at 18:20

    Lovely page for Mail colour is great I nearly went with this word but Marigold won lol.

    MaggieH

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  5. Sylvia12 March 2013 at 22:28

    Great mail page, love the air mail plane and the rich red colour.

    Sylv xx

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  6. Karen13 March 2013 at 12:34

    Lovely work here Sara! Thank you for joining us again over at The Craft Barn x

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  7. JansArtyJunk14 March 2013 at 10:08

    Fabulous M page sara..loving the white shadow/highlights on your plane against that red background.

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  8. Anonymous14 March 2013 at 12:09

    This is brilliant
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn.
    Izzy

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