Butterfly Envelope

Here is the envelope I sent to The Envelope Project at Meet Me at Mike's. Inside the envelope I included goodies which mostly consisted of paper ephemera from my box of miscellaneous whatnot. It's been great fun looking through their posts and seeing pictures of all of the envelopes and items that have been sent to The Envelope Project. What a cool concept.

This project reminded me of what Jennie from Red Letter Day wrote in her blog about about her latest project: creating art by recycling junk mail for a local area exhibition called "So Many Products So Little Time - The Junk Mail Show" that took place last weekend in in her section of the country, San Francisco. It's inspiring!

Make Your Own Envelopes

I love to make and use homemade envelopes. I've found an easy way to make them is with envelope templates that I got from Paper Source, but you can also use an old envelope that's unglued and opened up. Just trace the outline of the envelope on the paper you want to make into an envelope.

In the pictures in this post, you can see that I started with a large picture from a calendar and used the clear template to outline the envelope.

If you've never done this before, you can watch a video demonstration of the process at the Paper Source website.

It's handy to have white labels to put on the envelope so that the address is legible through the photo.

Paper Source also has videos for other fun projects - sealing wax, embosser, making envelope liners and more.