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CADecorating Envelopes Explained
Nowadays, envelopes come in many different sizes, beside the standard sizes. I like to make cards that can fit into a standard size one but there are occasions when I felt more creative and created a non-standard size or shape card. Then I will have to make my own which is very simple and can be done in a snap.
Turning Your Envelopes into Works of Art
When I first started out making greeting cards, I participated in many swaps and exchanges locally as well as internationally. It was fun to receive handmade greeting cards in my mailbox. Swappers not only handmade beautiful greetings cards, tags and trading cards, but also decorated the boxes, bubbled packed pockets and whatever they used to post their masterpieces in.
What a joy it was to receive those mails!
Below are the many different ways you can brighten up your mails.
Decorate them with rubber stamp images.
Give them a tea or coffee wash to achieve a antique look.
Decorate with punch-arts.
Use decorative scissors to trim the flaps.
Dry embossed on them.
Blow coloured bubbles on them.
Use stickers.
Use stencils.
Ink your rubber stamp using a Versamark inkpad and randomly stamp all over to give a watermark look.
Write the address with calligraphy. Brush calligraphy is the rage now.
Anyway, just make your marks!
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