New Envelope Template

Hi Jo here, hope everyone had a wonderful Xmas and have plans for a fun New Years Eve tonight. 

My family and I are off shortly to our annual neighbourhood New Years Eve party.  Over the years we have taken turns to have it at each of our homes (luckily we all only leave a few streets apart so don't have to worry about the drinking and driving) all our kids are friends as well, so makes for a fun family event. 

But before I whip off and make my salad and cream the pav to take along, I thought I'd share a envelope I created for my son Taylor that I placed on a special Xmas present so I could give him a special xmas letter.

 
Creating this envelope was so easy using the new large scalloped envelope template and the Ultra ShapeXpress.  I wanted to use contrasting paptterns inside and outside the envelope so cut 2 envelopes out and glued them back to back. 

Stripes on the inside

 
and a vintage holly on the outside

 
Wanted to make this look shabby chic  - so to achieve this look I inked up the edges of the envelope with my favourite green ink pad "bamboo".  I also used a vintage font to address the envelope and an old postage stamp that had no post marks on it, so I was able to stamp my own post marks to give it the look I wanted.  A punched snowflake and it was done.

I can see myself using this envelope template time and time and being able to customize it again for difference people and different occasions.

Comments

[Lyn Dwyer]

love what you have done here Jo.....and isn't it nice to be able to create your own envelopes to co-orndinate with what goes inside them......

[TracyM]

very nice Jo - your son would have loved it :)

[Debbie Buckland (NZ)]

wonderful envelope. Must look up that one in the shops...