Traditional costume snailmail

I really wanted to make a colourful snailmail for Bianca. I had this book lying around about Dutch traditional costume. I had already started cutting in it, so I could use all the pictures I wanted! I just love the bright colours and patterns. How amazing are they! After selecting some colourful pictures (costumes from all different regions of the Netherlands), I found some colourful paper to match. I had some clear plastic packaging lying around that I found such a waste to throw away. I had some matching craftmaterial lying around to go in the packaging. Well, that's how it all came together. I had already made a card with waving women some time ago that fitted in the theme..  But then I suddenly realised it looked like a sort of shopping display this way. Way to neat for my liking....

Lace, tiny lace flowers, colourful fake gemstones, buttons, a big lace flower, blue sewing thread, paper flags and confetti, blue post-it notes and an envelope with bathfoam. I found some really cool and colourful wrapping paper hanging around and made 7 bags out of it!

Thought it would be really cool to sticker the bags with numbers, for each day of the week one bag. So you can have mail for a whole week! A "how to use it" I've wrote on the back of the card. And ofcourse a long letter in a matching envelope. Cause mail without a letter, isn't real snailmail!

The outside envelope I've decorated in the same colourful style. The only thing left now, is hoping that Bianca is going to like it!