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Altered Slide Mailer - "A" is for Aloha

Amy McIntire
Trailblazers
Paper Arts & Multi Media Designer

Slide mailers are great small pieces that showcase fun materials and techniques. Anything can be used to decorate a slide mailer: papers, cork, fabrics, ribbons, stamps and more!

This charming altered slide mailer will be the talk of the town - I mean the beach! 

Supplies:

•  Aloha Alphabet (Rusty Pickle)
•  Balmy Breezes (Stampin’ Up!)
•  Rummage Alphabet (Making Memories)
•  Sepia Archival Ink (Ranger Industries)
•  Double Microscope Slide Mailer (Unknown)
•  Avenue Palm Tree paper (Rusty Pickle)
•  Avenue Beach House Green paper (Rusty Pickle)
•  Avenue Leaf paper (Rusty Pickle); Cut to size: 2 pieces at 1” x 2”
•  Four glass microscope slides
•  Copper tape (Sunday International – TAC)
•  Cork tag (Rusty Pickle); Cut to size: Trimmed at 2 ½ “
•  Cream burlap tag (Rusty Pickle); Trimmed at 3 ½”
•  Cream cardstock (Unknown)
•  Root Beer Float ribbon (Rusty Pickle); Cut to size: 2 pieces at 1 ½”
•  Lime Creamsicle ribbon (Rusty Pickle); Cut to size: 2 pieces at 1 ½” and 2 scrap pieces
•  Cream fiber (Unknown); Cut to size; 1 ½”
•  White Eyelet
•  Large weave mesh - used in rug hooking (JoAnn Fabrics); Cut to size: 2” x 1 ½”
•  Eyelet setting tools (Click-It)
•  Adhesive (Zots)
•  Paper towel

Instructions:

1. Take Palm and Green Beach House papers and adhere onto slide mailer.  Cut 4 pieces:  1½" x 3½" (2 of each for the front and 2 of each for the back of the slide mailer).  Trim off the excess.
    

2. Stamp palm tree image onto cream cardstock, tear around the image, and ink the edges. Adhere it with the cut piece of mesh onto the cork tag.  Thread a piece of cream fiber, lime ribbon, and brown ribbon and tie together. Adhere decorated tag onto the front of the slide mailer with adhesive dots.
    
3. Trim a piece of palm tree paper for the inside cover of the slide mailer; Cut to size: 2 ½” x 3 ½” and trim off the access. Adhere paper to the inside cover.
    
4. Construct inside cover tag by stamping letters and numbers as shown onto cream cardstock. Tear around each and ink the edges. Finish the tag by setting a white eyelet and tying on a brown ribbon. Adhere finished tag to inner cover.
    
5. Take one of the trimmed leaf paper pieces and stamp a pineapple onto it. Set this piece in between two glass slides.  Take the copper tape and wrap it around the collaged side – sealing it and giving it a decorative edge. Finish off the slide by adhering a scrap piece of lime ribbon to the top creating a “tag”. Repeat this process for the second slide. Adhere both slides to the empty slide space with an adhesive dot.  
    
6. Take a paper towel and rub ink onto the inside crevices and around the paper edges of the slide mailer.
    
7. Last, take a piece of trimmed lime ribbon and make a loop; adhere to the cover as shown.

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