INKLING: Dressed Up Envelopes

It’s so fun receiving real snail mail and even more fun when it’s something enticing like a pretty envelope. I made several fun envelopes and they were so easy to create. I may never use a plain white envelope again.

Inkling: air mail envelopes

I found a box of air mail envelopes recently and used them to make a few goodies.

I love the graphics on air mail envelopes, especially vintage air mail envelopes and stamps. For these projects, I used new envelopes but you could just as easily do a variety of crafts using vintage air mail graphics.

These little tags are easy to make using just a few envelopes.

Cover a small gift box – this little 2 inch box is a perfect size for party favors or a small, precious gift.

Air mail envelopes rolled up can be used as an invitation or a fun way to announce an event.

Use pieces of the envelope to embellish a jar to hold your stamps.

I hope you enjoyed these “par avion” crafts.

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Inkling: coin envelope gift enclosures

I found a box of coin envelopes in my stash and forgot how cute they were. They're so tiny - they measure 2-1/4” x 3-1/2”. I know...very few people think tiny envelopes are cute but I definitely fall into that category.

I printed out some paper templates and created miniature; yellow notepad, primary writing paper and sheet music gift enclosures.

A strip of each type paper on the envelope can be used for writing the “to” and “from” information.

I now only have about 480 coin envelopes left. If you have a crafty coin envelope idea – please let me know.