Hi, everyone! This is the seventh post of my blog blast of cat-themed projects for the Cat Lovers Hop! A special thank you to Janis at Her Peaceful Garden for hosting this wonderful event to celebrate our love of kitties! The hop runs until tomorrow so there is still time for you to join in the fun! I'm excited to be joining this hop for the fourth year! For an update on my husband's health, please see my first post here.
In May I made some happy mail / flat mail for one of my cat-loving blog friends (you know who you are!). I watched a YouTube tutorial to create the flat mail envelope, which measures about 8 1/4 inches by 5 1/4 inches. The idea of flat mail is to keep the envelope flat and within the size and weight range for international mail to save on postage costs.
The precious kitty face image is a digital from Free Pretty Things for You, which I fussy-cut. I made a gathered crepe paper strip and added a border die-cut (MFT Squiggle Border), a gold doily die-cut, a doily from my stash, and some punched butterflies with gems. The tiny tickets were fussy-cut from a My Minds Eye paper pad, and the little blue kitty rectangle is a small magnetic bookmark that I made. The double-sided patterned paper is from K and Company, and I outlined the entire envelope with a gold paint marker.
I also decorated the back. The precious kitties are a digital from Free Pretty Things for You, which I fussy-cut and layered on a blue doily from my stash.
Thank you for looking at my happy mail / flat mail envelope! Wishing you a joyful day and Happy Hopping!
I am not a digital person, but with these images, I could become one. PRECIOUS!! Love your magnetic bookmark, too!
This is to pretty to send in the mail! Great work.
So many purrfectly wonderful elements on this one. It's gorgeous!
Love, love, LOVE it, Kitty! Great paper choice for the background and darling kitty toppers on both sides.
Awww!!! Everyone would love to receive snail mail from you! This envelope is adorable!!!
How fabulous mail!!! Love al the details and the images on the front and the back!! The pink crepe paper looks great and I can see the coordinate tag peeking out from the envelope!! Delicious!!!
Wonderful kitty designed flat mail envelope.
Just adorable. Each of your envelopes are totally unique . Love the kitty images. Thankyou for spinning the butterfly wheel again this week. Hugs Mrs A.
This envelope looks very vintage... shabby chic. Cute little kitty!
This is so sweet and I love the vintage kittens! More of that beautiful ruffled crepe paper add to the delicate look!
This is purrfect with the cute cat images.
Its hanging in my craftrom.
Such a beautiful project.Thank you for sharing your project with us at the Crafts Galore Encore "Anything Goes" October Challenge. Good Luck and hope to see you again next month!
So pretty on the front and back. I like the touch of gold.
So sweet front and back, glad you made Mrs. A's butterfly challenge!
Thanks for entering our CraftyHazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge for October and good luck!
This is very pretty, I love the cute cat images and the patterned paper is lovely.
I had not heard of "flat mail" before, but it makes sooooooo much "cents"!! lol... It would be a challenge to keep it flat enough to fit the criteria. Love all the pretty details you used in yours. The gold on the edges is subtle, but it adds a lot!