Mail Carrier Thank You

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Hello and happy new year to all!

Thanks to a recent visitor who reminded me that it's been awhile since I posted.  I needed that nudge to get going again.

I made this tag over the holidays to give to the mail carrier who serves us at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  She is totally awesome.  Her route brings her by our shop around 10:30 each morning and we usually have dozens more orders to get out that day.  On busy days or days that I can't make an afternoon run to the Post Office she cheerfully makes a special trip back around 4:30 in the afternoon to pick up the rest of our outgoing shipments.  She helps us get your orders to you super fast!

Please forgive the quality of the photos as they were taken with my phone as I quickly created this tag.  I got out an old Verve thank you set.  I love that it has a number of thank you sentiments and I frequently pile them all on a single card/tag.

I got out my MISTI and set up the stamps in a pleasingly random way, inked them up with Jet Black archival ink and stamped the impressions.  These are clear polymer stamps and sometimes they don't take the ink well, especially for the first or second impression.

One of the great attributes of the MISTI is that you can reink and re-stamp until you are happy with the impression.  I had to reink the stamps a third time to get a perfect impression, but no worries with MISTI.

I'm sorry, I didn't take any further photos, but the next step was to use the Tim Holtz Correspondence stamp set to stamp all sorts of mail notices randomly over the entire tag.  Wendy Vecchi's Watering Can ink was used for the mail notice stamping because I wanted them to be background and to have the Thank You's pop and not blend in with the background.  I wanted it to have a little more background so the Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Typo was stenciled using Weathered Wood distress ink.  Once I had all that done, my next step was to blend Vintage Photo DI over the entire tag and then ink the tag edges with Walnut Stain DI.

I thought the tag needed a little pop so I took a Ranger glue stick and went around the edges, then laid Prima foil over the glue, burnished it with my hand and pulled it off to give the edges a lovely gold foiling.  Unfortunately the gold doesn't show up well in the photo.

The tag was finished off with a couple of Tim Holtz Idea-ology embellishments and a wisp of dyed crinkled seam binding.  I rubbed a bit of Picket Fence distress point over the Word Band to make the sentiment stand out.

This tag was a blast to make.  It took less than an hour and our mail carrier LOVED it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!   








The products below were used to create the above tag and are available for sale at The Funkie Junkie Boutique, most are 20% off retail.

50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	MISTI by My Sweet Petunia	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Watering Can	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Reinker - Watering Can	$23.95 Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Correspondence	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Typo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Weathered Wood
Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Weathered Wood	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo
Ranger Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink Reinker	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Ranger Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress Ink Reinker	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Stencil Mark
Natural Jute Twine	May Arts Metallic Gold Crocheted Lace - 1.5"	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Word Bands	Ranger Inkssentials Collage Glue Stick	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Collage Glue Stick
Prima Marketing Rub-On Foil Sheets - Shine On 585600