Pocket Letter by Ingrid Kristina V
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Hello everyone!
Ingrid
back with the last guest design post. I thought long and hard about what I was
going to make for my final post and figured that you might be totally
Christmas-ed out so I decided to create a pocket letter. Many of you probably
heard of pocket letters, but it might be something new to you.
For those who are not familiar
with the subject, pocket letters are a form of a happy mail. You’d send a
pocket letter to your crafting buddy. The idea is to create little pockets in
which you can include your letter or a note to your friend and fill other
pockets with little goodies like fun clips, buttons, washi, sequins, die cuts,
ribbon, stickers and anything else you want to your friend to have. I think it
is a wonderful way of letting your crafty friend enjoy some of your craft stash
and play with things they might not have.
There are a few ways of
creating pocket letters. You can combine and decorate envelopes and make an
envelope flip book, you can take a sheet protector for collectors’ cards and
fill those or you can make your own, like you will see me today. It is up to
you to decide what is best for you and there is not a right or wrong way in
this case. You can even create and decorate your own sheet of A4 card and cut
it up into small ATCs to fill the pockets with, if you don’t have or don’t want
to use ready-made project life cards like I did.
I wanted to focus on showing
you how to use the We R Memory Keepers Fuse Tool with some of their other
products, in case you find this a fun way to exchange little treasures with
your friends and want to try it.
Here’s a little step-by-step for you…
Step 1: Prepare your Clear
Sheets (12 x 12”), the Fusible Pattern paper and pre-heat the Fuse Tool. You
can buy a mat for it (don’t use the fuse tool on your craft mat as you can say
goodbye to it afterwards). I use a piece of a chipboard that came with my
flat-packed furniture to put under the sheets to fuse it. It works great!
Step 2: Take a selection of
Project Life cards and select your favourites. I chose a few in similar colours
and tones that I thought went well together. Also, keeping in mind it will be a
pocket letter for my friend, I selected a few cards with fun messages on them.
If you don’t have such cards, you can stamp or write on them, add stickers…
Step 3: Secure the two clear
sheets on top of each other with a washi tape and use the ruler to guide you
when fusing. It is a good idea to move the fuse tool fairly slowly to give it
time to do its job. If you do it too fast, the sheets can come apart, if you do
it too slowly, you will make a hole in the sheets. You can practice on a small
piece first to get a hang of it.
Step 4: I measured the size of
my card by placing it on top, then use the ruler to fuse. You will also need to
make slits for your pockets. Place the chipboard in between the sheets, then
cut so that you only cut through the top sheet, remove, then make another pocket
and so on until your entire layout is done.
Step 5: I decided to alternate
the cards horizontally and vertically and to create extra small pockets for
sequins and beads.
Step 6: In the end I added a
few stickers, created my little banner embellishment with sequins and added a
few bits and bobs. I also added some word stickers. I’m ready to fill the front
and back of the pockets with goodies for my friend and to write my special
note. Once done, simply fold, pack and post! The pink paper behind the pocket
is only for the photography purposes so that you can see it better.
I even made a little butterfly
clip using pattern paper, a die cut word, the fuse sheets with the tool and
some chunky glitter. You can use the clip to hold it all together once folded.
It is a lovely embellishment for any diary too. I will have a separate tutorial
on my
youtube channel to show you how you can make these pretty
butterflies.
So I hope you enjoyed today’s
post! Feel free to let me know your thoughts.
Thank you and have a wonderful
time over the festive period. Lots of love,
Ingrid xxx
Supplies List:
We R
Memory Keepers Clear Sheets (alternatively use ready-made Sleeves)
Project
Life cards (alternatively use ATCs)
…. a
few sticker embellishments from my stash…
4 comments
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this, it's gorgeous. Definitely something to try in the new year. Merry Christmas & A Happy Crafting New Year. : )
ReplyDeleteThank you, Heather! All the best for the New Year! X
DeleteThese are so pretty Ingrid and such a lovely idea too.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
Wow this is wonderful Inka.....and I have the very same tool coming for Christmas too ;)
ReplyDeleteHugs
Donna xx
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