Project: Elevated Envelope

I've followed The Elevated Envelope blog for a while and loved all the amazing envelopes that people were creating. So when one day I came online to see a blog post about having only one more day to sign up if I wanted to take part (I didn't know there was a sign up) I jumped at the chance of doing it.

 

Once the themes were e-mailed I was really stuck, Do I do one of the themes or do I create one of my own? I ended up thinking of so many ideas that in the end it was easir just for my minds sake to choose one of the themes and I choose

 

My summer is Your Winter theme...

in reality that's not true at all as it is winter at the moment here!

 

I sat down and created these...

Rocket                                                                       Feast

Fab                                                                           Strawberry Split

Each ice lolly I made into a booklet and wrote a note to each person who I got as my partner. I thought about it later and thought I should have turned them into pockets and put little things inside but I'd create these by then.

 

At first I was just going to send these like they are but deciding that it may not be considered as an envelope so I decorated 4 white long envelopes with outlines of ice-creams in winter colours but they just didn't sit right. Also I was worried about the lollipop sticks, in that will they survive the post! I was stood in a store with a craft section sorting my niece out when out of the corner of my eye I noticed clear bags for cards and I had a Eureka moment! I bought the bags, wrapped my ice-lollies up so that they fit with space around the edges (which required taping the edges) and put them in the bigger plastic bags that I bought....

I then needed snowflakes for the winter side of things but you wouldn't believe that I couldn't find snowflake punches or stickers anywhere! My sister then remembered she had one, gave me it but it was just so small to create the effect I wanted so just punched lots of little blue snowflakes.  In the end I raided a clearance section in the shops... moving things here and there to finally right at the back at the bottom of a box I came across some so bought them snowflakes, so I was being a bit drastic when saying I couldn't find them anywhere but it felt like it. I also had one sheet at home so created double sided snowflakes by sticking one side on to card, cutting around it and then sticking another on the back. I also used white flower confetti, hearts and glitter to add a little something more.

 

I then assumed I had the right stamps for these and would only need one but it turned out that I didn't and I would need lots! This resulted in me wondering what to do and what side to stick everything on so in the end I stuck it to the side with the seal on as then you could still see the ribbon bows on the front.

I couldn't leave it there though, it had to have a fun address label so I created these on a sticky sheet.


I actually created a bigger version of the Twister but when it came to creating it in to a book it turned out to be really hard which is why instead it featured on the label. Also I made two little mistakes, the first was to spell elevated envelope wrong which I noticed whilst it was still with me so I changed it, that ice-cream, I know as a screwball! The other one was the ice-choc which is actually known as a choc ice... oh well!

 

Even though at times I wanted to tear my hair out with this project, I love how it turned out in the end and I hope that my partners do too.

 

What is your favourite ice-cream?