Stamped Envelope Cards

Learning on how to make your own Stamped Envelope Cards is very simple and easy to make. Using your favorite envelopes and stamps can create something magical for friends and family everywhere. Send love!

Little cards are fast and fun to make, giving you great little add-ons to put with presents or give alone. They are saved in frames and albums, so enjoy making and sharing them. Paper-Papers, Pearl White in the Shine series, is a perfect stamping medium and holds up well to water coloring.

Instructions for Stamped Envelope Cards

Cut the 8.5 inch x 11 inch side in middle at 5.5 inch which leaves two cards, 5.5 inch by 8.5 inch, which when folded in the middle will fit into the A2 envelope. Decorating the envelope adds so much to the card, you will wonder why you didn’t always do that. Enjoy.

Stamping Tips

The color was added with a variety of pens, sharpies, Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Perfect Pearls, along with Krylon 18kt Gold & Copper Leaf Pens, available at Michaels and Amazon. The black ink is StazOn; it is waterproof, dries fast and you can color it. It will also stamp over the gilding. Sharpies from Walmarts were used where the stamp didn’t transfer all the inkwell; the Ultra Fine Tip Black and the Silver, thicker point.

When applying lines, use a ruler, with 3 pennies taped to the back, to lift the ruler off the page, so the color doesn’t bleed under the ruler. Keep going over the line.

The Stamps:

• Hampton Arts: The butterfly, Windowpane Monarch.
• Inkadinkado: The Giraffe and the Frame around the chocolate saying.
• Stampendous: The flower outline, the 3 dandelions & the Chocolate Saying.
• Hero Arts: The Inch Stamp Sayings.
• Leaves: Unknown, any will do.

When inking a stamp, apply the ink pad to the stamp, vertically; pat the top with the ink pad until the surface is covered. don’t rock the ink pad side to side. Stamp the image vertically; don’t rock the stamp. Using refills, wet the pad before using it Use a heat gun to dry the image between stampings.

The Perfect Pearls is flashy and fast. It is a glue stamp with mica powder dusted over it. To keep the powder from sticking to the card in unwanted areas, use a powdered antistatic pad on the card first and blow off the extra powder. It helps keep the mica from attaching to the paper outside the glue stamp. There is an open working time with glue, so after dusting the image with small amounts of Perfect Pearls – more is not better – take the card to the sink and blow off the extra. Don’t scrub the image; pat the powder on, moving it around gently. Use a heat gun to dry the image before brushing off the rest of the powder, or the glue will smudge. After the glue is dry, brush off the remaining powder and use a Kleenex to gently wipe any remaining powder off the card.

Materials for Stamped Envelope Cards

• Shine
  • Pearl Envelope A2 Envelope
• Your Favorite Stamps