Mailart 365 has moved

Instead of my standard postcards, I've come up with a new idea for some mailart365 project pieces. It started out when my best friend showed me a moleskine app she had on her iphone. Unfortunately, she has a newer phone and mine won't let me download it. No harm because it got me thinking of the moleskine cahiers that I love so much.

I've been making my own little cahiers for quite a while now, and this whole thing spurred the idea to make some more but then turn them into mailart.



I'll send them directly through the mail, where the addresses, and postage are stuck right on the cover. Each book is 4.25"x5.5" closed. I collaged on some pressed board, and then coated them with a sealer.

These are the open faced covers. I stuck a rubberband inside each book so the owner can keep them closed like in the picture at the top. I haven't put the recipients addresses on them in these pictures yet, so that I could share them.

I thought it would be a cool collaboration of sorts. My artwork is on the cover and the recipient can fill the blank pages inside with their own words or artwork. I think it will be cool with the cancelled stamps.

It'll be a crapshoot to see if it makes it through the mail or not.

We print and mail booklets all the time at work, but those are through bulk mail and these are obviously not bulk. I've seen pictures of a banana and toast with postage and addresses being sent through the mail successfully, so I think it's a good bet they will make it to their destinations.

I made wafer stickers to put on the edges to keep them closed through the mail. You can see that below.

I really love these books and this idea. I think it would be so much fun, and so unexpected to receive a little blank book in the mail. I hope the recipients like them and use them. I can't wait to make some more.
-Robyn