tutorial | recycled envelope accent with Anna-Maria Wolniak

Hi everybody! It's good to see you here even if the weather is so beautiful in the middle of summer! I prepared something "nice and easy" for you today. All of us receive our Studio Calico kits in beautiful boxes where we can find some fancy paper bags and tiny, sweet glassine envelopes. I would like to show you how you can use such lovely elements like this vellum envelope on your layout or in a mini album.

First you should combine the basic elements for your layout: collect the proper shades of papers and embellishments which will work well with your photos.

Choose one of the glassine bags (I chose the square one from the Valley High Scrapbook Kit), and take the SC label off.

Add a circle label sticker or a circle punched from paper.

Stamp one of the circle stamps on the label (I used a stamp from the set by Lili Niclass). Make a little hole in the middle of the sentiment, choose one of the brads from the Matthew add-on and embellish the envelope.

You can add some more stamps to make your embellishment more interesting :) I used a lovely stamp from the 'Inked' class exclusive stamp set.

I created a layout with a photo of my son who lost his tooth and I hide this little piece of him in this little glassine bag.

(Supplies - Valley High Scrapbook Kit, Valley High Project Life kit, Matthew add-on, Molly add-on, Jennifer add-on, July 4x6 stamp only add-on)

Have you upcycled your kit packaging into an embellishment? We'd love to see - link us up!