This is a speedy way to make a fancy envelope:
the "belly-band-elope" (heeheehee.)
It was born out of necessity: I was in a big ol' rush! It uses less cardstock than a full envelope and it teases the person who's receiving your creation, since they get a little peek at your card. :0) It'd be ideal for hand-delivered cards, but if you need to mail a card and you like the look of this, you could just mail it all in a plain envelope.
You can lend a corseted look to it using 4, 6, or more brads
It slides right off of the card, so there's no need to untie it.
To make a super simple belly-band-elope:
* Cut a piece of cardstock that suits your card (suggested measurements: twice the width as your finished card and about 2/3rds of the width--usually you can just use the other half of the piece of cardstock that you cut your card from.)
* Place it under your card to decide where the folds will go
* Fold it over your card (scoring first if necessary)
* Add any embellishments you like to close it (the easiest way I can think of would be to tie a ribbon around it.) You could also add one or more eyelet(s)/brad(s)/button(s) on each side and thread/tie ribbon, string, or wire through it.
Thank you for looking :o)
For more details on how to make/add the flowers please see
the Blog post for this project here:
Paper: patterned paper is by Basic Grey (Stella Ruby: Morning in the heath ste726.) The cardstocks are River Rock & Soft Sky and altered very vanilla texutred c.s.
Ink: homemade tinted versamark (turquoise)
Accessories: Three for you punch, silver cording, mini gems (michaels), Clear embossing powder, hole punch, eyelets, Skaura glitter pen clear glitter & white glaze