Happy birthday Connell.
I made this slide mailer for Connell’s 9th birthday. He really enjoys cricket (amongst other sports) so I found a lovely picture of WG Grace to put inside.
The slide mailer is coloured all over then covered using aluminium tape with peel-offs underneath to emboss the words and pattern. The tape was coloured using alcohol inks. The picture is glued behind the glass microscope slide using a clear glaze and this is then edged in foil tape and glued into it’s space. The red Grace cricket ball was punched out of card and a clear dome stuck over the top to give it a 3D effect. The gift box is an extra long match box which was painted and then decorated with silver peel-offs.

Inks: alcohol ink – stream
Other: slide mailer, extra long match box (with foam inside), silver peel-offs, aluminium foil tape, card, clear dome, pictures and computer generated wording, glaze