In Somerset Studio they used to have lots of decorated (hand-stamped) envelopes at the beginning of the magazine. I don't get it anymore so have no idea if it carried on or not. Anyway, here we are asking you to decorate an envelope.
I recently had a birthday and I got a card with the envelope also stamped and coloured with the same little owls that the card contained. It was so nice to see and so I am hoping that when I send something out in the envelopes below they give as much pleasure to the recipients as Renate's envelope gave to me.
This one is similar to some I have done before using my Alice stamps and colouring in with Twinkling H2o's.
You will see I have left room for the address to go in the centre of the envelope and for the stamp to go in the top right hand corner.
With this one I masked out a rectangle for the address and one for the stamp before commencing colouring with Distress Inks all over in Mowed Lawn and Picked Raspberry. Then I just put random stamps over the top, leaving the masks still in place.
There's lots of ways you can decorate an envelope. it doesn't have to be all over the front as in mine above and you could use magazine pictures cut out in a careful collage if you don't want to rubber stamp. Go on, you know you want to try.
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