Many blessings to you and your family as you welcomed in 2013... May the new year be filled with blessings, adventures, and new ways to inspire you!
I was recently inspired by a Christmas gift from a friend. She and I both love stationery items; she had shared how she recently explored products on
Paper-Source.com. On the site, they have a tutorial for making your own envelopes in various sizes with liners. This allows you to create an envelope from any paper you may have on hand, including printed, vellum, or even washi paper. On Christmas, I was so excited when I received the templates for creating custom envelopes, along with some gorgeous paper! This would be the perfect New Year's Eve project...
My auntie and I got to work right away after dinner. We started by choosing our envelope size (A2 = 5.5"x4.25") and paper. We decided to go with Creative Memories' 12x12 platinum shimmer paper. Lovely! CM's tool kit came in handy for this project as the precision scissors were sharp and easy to maneuver around our outline. The embossing tool also worked out perfectly to help us score the folds for the envelope flaps.
After we cut out the liner from beautiful piece of vellum, we used our favorite tape runner with frosted segments to adhere the liner in the envelope. Then after carefully folding at the creases, it was time to adhere the envelope's flaps together... our envelope started to take shape!
Overall, I was quite pleased with our handiwork, even though we had to do the cuts by free hand. It was great to combine the templates from another company with the paper and tools of Creative Memories. I can't wait to make more!
