Fungus Mail

     ...grunge it up...

    On my last post I shared some of the mail that I sent out. Here's the break down, or the build up, of one of the pieces. I call it Fungus Mail. :) 

There's the front...

...here's the back...

I used my personal wax seal, that I bought on Ebay years ago. It just so happened to have my initials on it.

I use a gold stamp pad first before plopping the seal down. It helps to defines the design.

To start I used a kraft paper envelope. I then took apart a vintage envelope, that I got at the flea market. I glued it down with matte gel medium. Did a quick sketch of my fungus. Lined the drawing with a Micron pen and colored it with Inktense watercolor pencils. I then added some Asian paper, gifted to me by a friend. 

I activated the Inktense pencil with a brush loaded with water. Three colors were used there. Two different reds and a yellow. To grunge up the envelope, I used water soluble wax pastels around the mushroom. Again, with a water loaded brush, I did small circles and pulled the color outward. I rubbed some more pastel around the perimeter of the envelope and activated that, too, with water. That set up my base. Everything else was added a little at a time...just whatever came to me...:)