Project: Elevated Envelope

This week I finally received the last of my Elevated Envelopes and I'm completely blown away with this one. I absolutely love it and I hope you do too. I do have a collage of the photos but I'm going to show them individually just so you can see exactly how amazing this envelope is. I'm in love!

The theme she choose was black and white...

It travelled all the way from Canada and the stamp fits in so well with the whole theme as you'll find this wonderful animal at this location...

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The circus! I need to know what my partner used for her envelope as it was such a thick and sturdy envelope but also did its part by being see through also. I really didn't want to open it as it looked so good but I did and this is what was inside.

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The tent is so cute and was folded in a lovely way that again I couldn't bring myself to open it but the curiosity got the better of me.

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Inside was like a little booklet. My partner loved the book 'The Night Circus' so got her inspiration from it but also she copied part of the first chapter in to it for us to read which I liked the sound of but I haven't yet bought as I purchased about 8 books this week already!  I do want to read it so will one day buy it.

 

There was of course a little note also but you didn't need to see that... for my eyes only as always!  I am really quite disappointed that this has come to an end but I am glad I only took part in 4 envelopes instead of the 10 that was another option.

Project: Elevated Envelope

Last week I wrote a blog post about taking part in the Elevated Envelope exchange which if you missed it your can read it here. I ended up asking all my partners what they called ice-lollies in their country and it was quite interesting to read their response.

The deadline was the 8th March so my partners were a little late in sending but I have so far received 2/3 envelopes.

The first one I received is this Phoenix Post Bird which is such a lovely idea. My partner painted it using water colour and then copied it on to everyones envelopes.

Inside was a lovely note, a moo card and some interesting information about Phoenix which was sealed with a wax seal to add to the fun of it.

Ice-lollies= Popsicles.

 

My 2nd envelope arrived yesterday

and this partner also went for the my summer is your winter theme but also softly. She also used watercolour to decorate her envelope like myself and the envelope above which is interesting that we all used paint for our media. Her inspiration is her garden which she has spent most of the summer enjoying doing her various hobbies. I can't wait for summer even though it means it probably will be scorching making Ramadan a little difficult but I don't care just as long as we  have sunshine! Such a calming place my partners garden.

 

Ice-Lollies= Ice Poles (I didn't know this one but love it)

One thing I was thinking I wish I had made was ice-pops, growing up I loved sucking on these. The UK brand is Mr Freeze and the blue and red ones were my favourite. I'm curious to know what 'ice-pops' in your country are called also?

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?