One of the duties of my day job working with hospital insurance billing is to open mail. Lots and lots of mail. After reading a post from Sideoats & Scribbles a while back, I never realized the beauty in the patterns of security lined envelopes until Lisa pointed it out. Red ones. Blue ones. A ton of black ones.
Everything but the Kitchen Sink's latest household challenge is to use envelopes. Off the Wall Craftiness has a lovely peacock image for her color challange of turquoise, lime and black. I pulled out a vast number of the black patterned lined envelopes and created a fresh and funky background for the fun banners. All the pennants in the banners are covered with Glossy Accents for a real flashy shine, just the nature of a peacock! The colors just felt like there should be a celebration somewhere, so I made it into a birthday card for the SRM Sticker Challenge.
Supplies Used: Cardstock: White (Georgia Pacific) Taken with Teal (SU) Stamps: Look Up (Practicing Creativity Designs) Ink: Jet Black (Stazon) Aquamarine, Lime Pastel Chalk (Colorbox) Embellishments: Sticker (SRM Stickers) Teal Twin (May Arts, Practicing Creativity Designs) Black Brad (SU) Other: Glossy Accents (Ranger) Envelopes
This is awesome! LOVE IT!!! Hope you get to play in the new challenge on my blog this week!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) Have a great Mothers Day!!!!
ReplyDeleteFANTASIC!! Love your use of the envies and the colors are fabulous! You are rocking with this challenge!
ReplyDeletelove the woodgrained security envelope!!! Awesome card!
ReplyDeleteAwesome way to use envies, Karen! Thanks for playing!
ReplyDeleteWonderful job Karen! I like how you used different security envelopes. Would love to get my hands on that woodgrained envelope. Great colours and I love what you did with the ribbon tab.
ReplyDeleteOkay--genius again Karen!! Way to recycle! And such an original way to use envelopes for the EBTKS challenge!! (I haven't made anything for that challenge yet)
ReplyDeleteWow, awesome, amazing, beautiful, delightful!! I love trying to come up with ways to use security envelopes too, and have made tags and mini-album pages, but never cards. Genius!
ReplyDeleteWhat a creative use of envelopes!! Great card!
ReplyDeleteVery cute, love the ribbon with the brad and those SRM Stickers are great! I have a few sheets of them and have never used them!
ReplyDeleteOMG I LOVE this! You really rocked the challenges!
ReplyDeleteHow clever, Karen!! I didn't know that you can create such a beauty using envelope! Love it! I love the banners and the twill too!
ReplyDeleteI love it, I think I might have to figure out how to make cool flags like those... now you've got me on an envelope tangent!
ReplyDeleteAren't you clever?!!! Excellent job Karen!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my, Karen! You incorporated both challenges like a real pro. Love those security envelope prints as a background to the banners. Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE THIS ONE!!!!!!!!! I'm totally diggin' using the household items right now. {I have another one in the works that will soon be revealed.} Oh that I had access to such great envelopes--maybe I'll have to actually open my junk mail now just in case? And, you nailed the tiny embellishment at the top. I always love the simplicity of your connectors. Thanks for more inspiration!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea girl! That is too cool :) Thanks for playing along!
ReplyDeleteWow what a fun and creative technique! This is gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a way to use envelopes!!! You rocked yet another challenge!
ReplyDeleteVery creative!! Love the colors and the design!
ReplyDeleteOK...this is total creative genius! LOVE IT! I would have never guessed that those background strips were envelope liners!!! So super cool! And what an awesome way to repurpose used materials!!!!! Way to go, girl!!!
ReplyDeletethis is really cool, Karen! love the security envelop background and the pretty peacock colors!!
ReplyDeleteSo cool! I will never look at a security envelope the same. You are a master of the banners!
ReplyDeleteOh my word fabulous. I'm so in love with that first pattern. I so think that needs to be a stamp! :)
ReplyDeleteWow! This looks AMAZING!!!!
ReplyDeleteThose envelopes look so cool. :)
Yet another fabulously creative creation:-) Love the card, and the supplies used!
ReplyDeleteSuch a clever and creative use of the envelopes. That's a great card! I really like the little pop of green and turquoise.
ReplyDeleteToo stinkin' cute! I LOVE it! I love the inside of the envelopes! Our first EBTKS challenge was too use old mail, and I mentioned the same thing, about how cute the inside is! I would LOVE to get woodgrain pattern in my mail! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing with us in the EBTKS challenge! :)
ReplyDeletejust so creative, karen!
ReplyDeleteSuch a cool card and such a cool use of envelopes! Thanks so much for playing along with EbtKS!
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous!! I can't wait to start tearing open security envelopes to see their inner beauty. Thanks for sharing Karen, and if you're ever in NJ - drop a line and we'll do some yard 'saleing'!
ReplyDeleteCongrats making the Domestic Diva for the EBTKS challenge, loved you innovative card:-)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being named a Domestic Diva! Love those fabulous, lined patterns!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being nominated as a Domestic Diva!! Well deserved!
ReplyDeleteYay! Congrats Domestic Diva!!
ReplyDeleteHad to pop back in again and say CONGRATULATIONS, Domestic Diva!!!! You rock, girlie!!!!
ReplyDeleteFun card.... loving the banners! :-)
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