This piece features some favourites, such as the Victorian/steampunk tissue paper from adafruit, a washi tape ‘stamp’ featuring a vintage camera, plus a fun privacy envelope pattern.

back of an envelope collage, paper ephemera, die cut letter, washi tape, ink and glue; photographed 25jan25, sony A7c, 90mm sony macro, f/2.8 ev +0.3, 1/100s, ISO 125, WB daylight; rotated, cropped and scaled in gimp

The recipient was the person who gave me the silver and black die-cut letters, so it seemed only appropriate to include one for them, and for assorted reasons, not least its excellent graphic qualities, we both consider the letter X most appropriate.

Judging by the　学校・がっこう　(gakkou/school) kanji (in red, on the top edge), it's probably a congratulatory note on their schooling/grades, which would've also allowed me to use the pseudo ‘warm wishes’ postmark, that I really liked, but, because it was fake, was difficult to work into a piece.

I like this piece, so I'm not certain I didn't post it with its sibling, made in January, but here ’tis, only 10 months later:)

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