In this Altered Envelopes Tutorial, I’ll share how to decorate a few envelopes with Stamps, Stencil and scraps of paper. Get out the random envelopes that you have in your stash and play along.
See the Altered Envelopes Tutorial Video, as a live premier, Nov 26th at 12:30 pm on YouTube. Or anytime after the premier.
Supplies used for the Altered Envelopes Tutorial
- Beach Rose Large Stamp
- Goudy Caps & Numbers Stamps
- Diamond With Flair Stencil
- Tulip Twine Stamp
- Farewell Quartet Stamp Set
- Flower Lover Stamp
- French Correspondence Stamp
- Botanical Fern Stamp
- Sheet Music Stamp
- Companion Rose Stamp
- Small Label Vintage Ephemera by Calico Collage
- Vintage Postcards Calico Collage
- Feather Floral Stamp
- Leafy Branch Stamp
- Sunkissed Cube Stamps
- Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Curious Golden Orange
- Making Memories Stamp
- Printable Words by Calico Collage
- Distress Oxide Dusty Concord
- Oval Blending Brushes
- Distress Oxide Forest Moss
- Aleene’s Tacky Glue
- Fiskars Scissors
- Black Archival Ink
- Tim Holtz Distress Ink Walnut Stain
- Ranger Ink Blending tool
- Scraps of book pages
- Envelopes various sizes
- Coin Envelope
- Paint brush
- Scraps of Painted Papers
- Heat Tool
Decorating envelopes using Stamps, Stencil and scraps of paper. Altering envelopes will help use up those scraps that you have!
Using the large Beach Rose, goudy caps and numbers, tulip twine, and farewell rubber stamps with black archival ink. The background was created with the Diamond with Flair stencil with the Dusty Concord Distress Oxide to add color to the background of the coin envelope.
Don’t forget to decorate the back of your envelopes!
Created this envelope using the Diamond with Flair stencil and Dusty Concord Distress Oxide Ink. Stamped the envelope with Flower Lover, French Correspondence, Botanical Fern rubber stamps. Adding the printable words and Small Label Vintage Ephemera by Calico Collage.
The back of the envelope using the Music Sheet, with the number eight from the Goudy Caps and Numbers, Leafy Branch and Botanical rubber stamps.
Used the Companion Rose rubber stamp, then colored the image with the Dusty Concord and Forest Moss distress oxide inks using a blending tool.
This large envelope was too large to use in Linda’s journal, she folded it in half and then used the Diamonds with flair stencil with Dusty Concord, Sentiment, and then added the number five from the goudy caps and numbers stamp set.
Added the sentiment Making Memories stamp, a word, and then adhered all with Aleene’s Tacky Glue.
Stamped Sunkissed on a scrap of paper and used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist to color the flower. Stamped Leafy Branch and then layered the flower and, a sentiment. The Diamonds with Flair Stencil was used on the lower corner with Dusty Concord Distress Oxide.
Showing the results by playing with stamps, stencils and envelopes for journals!
How will you decorate your envelopes to use in your journal?
Robin Fennessy
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Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today to see my Altered Envelopes Tutorial!
Preparing to create this monochrome journal, then deciding which digitals looked good when printing in black and white takes a lot of time. 
Altering an envelope can be done easily with rubber stamps! One of the stamps from the Lace Duo was stamped around the edge. On a scrap of white paper the little birds were stamped and a real piece of lace was attached.
