The Magic of Feathers

Hi Everyone it's Teresa here today sharing a fun card and envelope

ensemble to make for someone special.  My inspiration came from 

our beautiful stamp set that we have with feathers and an old 

vintage inkwell and a caligraphy pen called "I write you letters"

 what better way to use it then make a set

of cards and envelopes with feathers.  And here is my project....

I have always thought that giving little mini books filled

with custom stationery would make great gifts for everyone.

Today I just made a simple jacket with a folded edged 

bottom to put the cards and envelopes in.  Be sure and measure

your cards and leave yourself about 3/4" all the way around

for each pocket so that you can glue the edges to keep them in.

Mine is just a bit short on the sides and I would have liked

to have made it just a tad bit bigger so that I could glue them.

My stamps can be found here for "I write you letters"

and here for the sentiment" You are sunlight to my heart".

 I also used Spellbinders S5-177 Filigree Delight

and a brand new Spellbinders die you can

 pre order here called Feathers S4-428.

For my cards I just used strips of the New G45 Botanical

Tea papers and tied on some jute and added the feathers

that I cut/embossed in matching papers on each of them.
Another great stamp to add to these would be Teeny Tiny 
Sentiments and you could put on on each of them.

For my envelopes I stamped each of them using the inkwell

and the feather stamp with a medium brown ink and just

let it dry.  I didn't emboss it so that it would look a little

more vintage.  You can use some distress ink around them

too and really make them look old world.  Before i attached

the front I glued a ribbon across the front so that I could

tie it all together to give as a present.  

 Thanks for stopping over today and hope you got a little

inspired to created something with feathers today!!

Have fun....