Junk Mail

The Arts in the Cards Challenge for January was "Junk Mail", a great way to make something fun out of such an annoyance.  I'm kind of sick of seeing this gecko pass through my mail but decided to place him in a jungle setting instead of Australia.

My backgrounds were all collages of different sorts.  Some were fabric paper, some just paper, some postcard announcements for yet another Chinese restaurant opening in the neighborhood. I then cut and stamped out flowers and palmy-looking things, and added the gecko.

The back of the cards are the insides of return envelopes, which I have a hard time throwing out.  I love the little blue and grey patterns and use them for many things.  Glad to be able to use some of the window return envelopes too!