Making Mail Art

I’ve always dreamed of owning my own business and imagined that any letters or packages I sent would be distinctive. If you received something from me, you would know it without ever reading the return address label.

Similar to the J. Peterman catalog where people are as interested in the stories and copy as the products themselves, I realize that I want my letters and packages to be as much about the packaging itself as what is in the package.

I’ve written about this idea before (HERE), but never pursued it. It became just one more idea on my ever expanding list of ideas, but then I discovered “Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art” (aff link) and fell in love with the idea all over again.

So, I decided to take some of my art journal pages and make my own mail art envelopes.

Like I said in my last post, I am letting go of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and just playing. This is my first mail art project and it’s been a lot of fun.

Making Mail Art…

I started by taking an existing envelope and making a template to trace.


Then I scanned my art journal pages into my computer.


Then I played with the images, flipping them around, and pasting them upside right and upside down.


Next, I printed these pages out.


Using the envelope template I had created I traced and cut out the envelopes.


I then folded them and used my handy dandy glue stick to keep them all together.


And, now I have my own art journal – mail art envelopes.

Pretty cool, huh?

If you’d like to receive a Dreaming Cafe original mail art envelope just drop me line at Sandy@TheDreamingCafe.com and I send you one, with a personal note.