How To: Super Easy Embossing

I hope that everyone had a great weekend celebrating America's Birthday!!  I actually got LOTS of homework and studying done, and also I finally worked on my Save the Dates!  You have patiently listened to the plans, and now you are saying-

"Enough already!  Just show us the gosh darn things."

Well my friends, the finished product is coming soon.  But first, don't you want to see how I gave them a special crafty touch?  (I will safely assume the answer is yes.)

Before placing my beautifully edited vintage postcards into the safety of their new homes, I thought I would do a little decorating.  So I figured I would give a short "how to" about embossing our new address onto the backs of the envelopes as the return address.  (Please ignore the awful blocked out info!)

Step One: ink stamp and press onto envelope flap

Step Two: not so centered, try harder next time!

Step Three: cover with embossing powder in color of your choice

Step Four: dump off excess powder

Step Five: use sweet pink embosser to heat it up!

Step Six: now ain't that a perty touch?

Materials:

Envelopes

Custom Rubber Stamp (from impressrubberstamps.com)

Ink in color of your choice

Embossing powder (can be clear, as shown, or colored)

Embossing Tool

Tips: I use a paper plate to tap off my excess powder onto; it makes for easy clean up if you fold it in half and use it to funnel the excess back into your container.

Very simple; gives it a personal and homemade touch.  Which is what I am going for- you can't take me too seriously if my own address isn't centered, now can you?  ;)

Tomorrow comes the finished product, I promise!  Thank y'all for your continued patience!  Anyone else finding the little things endlessly amusing while trying not to study for this week's midterm?

Save the Dates: In Progress

Crazy weekend!  We had a few friends from out of town and I was more social than I have been in months, leaving me exhausted but happy.  Then I had a paper due in my class tonight, leaving me- hopped up on caffeine late at night (again).  So forgive my lateness.  I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend and official start to summer time!

So last week I placed my order for the Save the Dates... (Yes, I finally got it to upload!  Woo!  More to come on awesome customer service later.)  And while they haven't themselves arrived yet, I have been getting all excited by the packages preparing for their arrival.

First, the envelopes!  (Is it wrong to be really excited about envelopes?  I justify by telling myself it makes the wedding one baby step towards real.)  I really wanted these:

I heart Paper Source

However at $3.50 for ten, the total would have been $35 for the 100 I wanted.  Now before you think that doesn't sound bad, consider that envelopes that aren't quite as dear to my heart can be found for about 1/3 of the price.  So I figured I would be a good kid and scratch that.  I checked Envelope Mall for something similar, and while I did find this:

Carnival "Euro Flap" 4Bar

at $15.25 for 100, it sadly did not come in the correct size (I wanted A6 to fit my postcards, and of course it came in various other sizes but not A6).  So I settled my silly envelope-loving heart on these:

Natural White A6 Envelopes from Envelope Mall

Now I know you're feeling big time sorry for me (completely kidding!), but don't worry!  I made it all better by ordering 100 of these babies which arrived today:

Thank you, USPS!

And now that I am done whining and my envelopes and stamps have arrived, I am quite happy with my decisions.  The envelopes were $10.75 for 100, are 30% Post Consumer Waste, and best of all, are the correct size!  (And they are very nice, despite not having my fancy flap.)

I can't wait to get the actual postcards and send these babies out!  It gets slightly more real by the day...

Anyone else excited by the little things?