This week I’m pleased to share my latest design category with you all: Deconstructed Envelope Cards. By which mean fold-out cards that when closed, resemble envelopes. This is the first of what will probably be several more variations of this design.
Enjoy!
Leftover pieces of chipboard are ideal to create all kinds of nice trinkets and keepsakes. Like, for example, a mailable photo stand. I created this one for my mom, with some nice memories of my dad. So I again used Tim Holtz’s masculine-themed Dapper collection, printed and cropped four pictures and decorated to my heart’s desire.
As for the paper, I used 10 ATC cards, so this project is also perfect for your leftover Project Life cards or journalling cards!
Enjoy the video!
Let me know if you’d like me to do a (free) tutorial for this little photo stand! (even years after this post is fine with me, just drop me line or leave a comment – I’m always in for new blog and/or video ideas 🙂 )
More detailed tutorials on a growing number of projects are available in my Etsy shop.
One of the great craft ideas floating around on the internet is what I would call a chocolate bar envelope. I think lots of people have made these by now, but only after I had the pleasure of receiving one myself, was my attention drawn to it.
I waited for the right occasion to create one myself and when the moment came, tadaa! 🎉 There it was, my very own version.
I sent it to my friend Christa, so it would be waiting for her when she got home from a short vacation. I mean, nothing says Welcome Home like chocolate & tea don’t you think? 🙂
Have you ever sent someone food or snacks? 🙂 Let me know in the comments!
Some weeks ago I told you I sent out a little snail mail package to Russia for the international Kaisercraft Exchange swap project.
Meanwhile I received a Happy Mail package as well – also from Russia, and I was overwhelmed; Christmas started early this year!
Marina Gridasova sent me four of her paper craft projects! They were a gift a tag, a chocolate bar gift box, a mini album and a card. And then she added a whole lotta goodies to them!
Wow, thank you so much Marina! All of you, check out her blog (click her name above) and admire her lovely work.
Not too long ago I participated in Kaisercraft’s brand new international snail mail project called Kaisercraft Exchange, which I really enjoyed. You send out anything you created with Kaisercraft products to someone around the world you don’t know, and likewise you receive something – from someone else entirely. Kaisercraft functions as the trustworthy middleman to swap all of the addresses.
It was so, so much fun to participate the first time! So when they announced their second run of this worldwide surprise swap, I was game!
This time I used the Lush design papers, a Kaisercraft paper collection from 2010, of which I had also miraculously still been able to find the rubons. I designed something completely new (well, to me at least): a Mini File Folder, or Mini Collection Folio if you will. I was absolutely engrossed in designing and creating this project, it really scratched all of the right itches for me, especially after finishing a larger project (coming up soon…) 🙂
So without much further ado, here’s the video. Enjoy, let me know what you think, and do participate in Kaisercraft Exchange next time! Who knows, maybe I’ll be sending you something! 🙂
In my previous blog post I shared with you what I sent out for the Kaisercraft Exchange happy mail project. In this post I’m showing what I received myself! 🙂
The lady who sent me this made a beautiful card, with what I believe not to be a Kaisercraft collection. But hey, who cares, it’s a beautiful piece of card art! ?
Even so, I got my Sherlock on and scoured the internet to find out what she used, and I am 99% sure I found it. For I “deduced”, my dear Watson, that this had to be from a Blue Fern Studios collection, and I’m positive it is from their Serendipity line, a sheet titled Glee!
Last May Kaisercraft announced their Kaisercraft Exchange project, aimed at sending and receiving Happy (snail) Mail to and from people around the world, without knowing anything about them except their name and address.
I immediately signed up, for it’s always a lot of fun to create specifically with someone else in mind!
I chose the Be-You-Tiful collection and designed a new wallet card, to be sent to a lady called Kirstie, in Pacific Pines in Australia (hi Kirstie, hope you’re reading this! 🙂 ) I also added a small a mini album to keep pictures of her loved ones, to keep in her purse.
For both of these designs together I only needed 2 sheets of 12×12″ cardstock and 5 sheets of 12×12″ double-sided design paper (including two cutapart sheets with some lovely sentiments).
I also wrote a 29-page tutorial for the wallet card, which you can find in my Etsy shop for a small price, to help me keep doing what I do.
