Card Making - Cards to Go Through the Mail 5
Creating the coordinating envelopes to match your hand made cards can be simple. If you choose your papers in advance - it’s easy to use a piece of the paper you intend to make the envelope from as a layer or a mat in your card. Here I used the decorative paper as large layer under my stamping and chipboard embellishments. The A7 (5″ x 7″)envelope now coordinates beautifully, and since I didn’t use any embellishments on the envelope - I can adhere an address label on the front and mail through the post.
One thing to remember when creating envelopes for the post - you’ll want to use a strong paper, and great adhesive. Especially when your card may have dimensional accents (such as my chipboard sticker), it should be able to survive the big postal machines if encased in a well constructed envelope. I actually find that the ones I make myself using the templates from Green Sneakers are better and stronger than any store bought ones.
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