by Lois Breneman, © 2006, Revised 2010
Go through some old magazines and find interesting and colorful pictures to use as unique, colorful and personalized envelopes for your cards, notes or letters. Pictures of children, dogs, cats, a fruit sherbet, flowers, gardens or anything colorful and interesting. Even some advertisements make a great envelope. Using a small business envelope, take it apart to make a pattern for your handmade envelope, then trace around, cut it out and glue it into a one-of-a-kind envelope!
An easier method, is to simply lay your card or letter (straight or diagonally) on the back of the picture you want to display as the front of your envelope. Fold the paper around your card or letter and use glue stick or tape it. A color copied picture of the person to whom you are writing could also be used as a very interesting envelope. I love this idea and have been finding all kinds of magazine pages to use as handmade envelopes!
Add a blank label to the envelope, write in the name and address, add a return address label and stamp. Plain labels can be ordered by mail, without your name and address printed on them -- just specify that you want them with no printing.
Children could have such fun writing sweet notes to their friends and relatives, using these free envelopes. Of course, they could simply be handed to the person, rather than sent. Parents could use this idea for writing lunchbox notes as well!
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