Mail Call

Hello from scorching hot Arizona! We've basically been hermits here in the house this weekend as it's too darn hot to go out anywhere (115F/46C yesterday). So we caught up on some TV programs and I wrote a few letters and postcards. I'm a bit behind on posting about mail...this went out a week or two ago:
I made the Robert Pattinson envelope from an old calendar to send some Eclipse postcards to a postcrosser. Three envelopes I decorated, starting at the top left, included an Italian theme, miscellaneous and a sports theme (Houston Astros baseball sticker and Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game stub).

My latest letter to Bianca in Oz was with a YELLOW theme, mailed in a clear sheet and thus everything was showing through. I plastered it with yellow stamps and included a recipe as seen on the back, written on a vintage yellow card. I like to use red when I send to her since it's her favorite color but I went with yellow this time!Above is what I worked on this weekend; lots of Postcrossing postcards but
also to some friends/penpals in Colorado, Illinois and New Mexico.At the top, the mail art envelope theme was simply by color in browns/tans and I also used a lot of vintage book text (English, French, Spanish) to decorate. The postcards, L to R, are S'Mores cupcakes that I made recently (sitting on a vintage cake stand), a vintage sewing pattern that I scanned and made into a photo postcard (groovy hairstyles!), a vintage children's book from my bookshelf, scanned and made into a photo postcard for a postcrosser, and a postcard of the lovely actress Carole Lombard. She was married to Clark Gable and tragically died at a young age in an airplane accident.This comic just cracks me up!