Lamb-velope

To continue the trend of envelopes made from children's books, here's another offering from Minikin by Stephen Cosgrove and Robin James.



No fancy envelope template this time - the pages are too small - I just fold them up as they are.

Clearly this one arrived intact and on time, because the recipient blogged about it.

Dyed in the Wool wine label card

The lovely PostMuse, who does far more than just postcards, send me this crafty card made from a wine bottle label. She said the wine wasn't anything fantastic, but I think the label makes a mighty fine card!



I'm most taken with the label on the envelope, though - I've never seen anything like this before but I love it.



And, because she is awesome and she knew I would love it, she enclosed this large Australian postcard of a flying fox, a large fruit bat, with the matching postage on the front. It's used, and someone else sent it to her, but of course I adore the bat image. Flying foxes are the COOLEST of bats. Aren't they just gorgeous creatures? I certainly think so.

More envelopes made from children's books

I made these envelopes for the Letter in a Handmade Envelope #2 swap on Swap-bot.

Awwww!!! Isn't this cute? These pages all came from Minikin by Stephen Cosgrove and Robin James.



I loved the Serendipity Books when I was a kid, so I looked specifically for these when questing for books to use for handmade envelopes. The pages are a bit small, so one just has to tape the edges, but I think they're worth it.



Here's the second one, with more postage because it headed off to Canada.



I will also say that the pages of these books are nice and thick, so I didn't worry about these envelopes being too flimsy to make it through postal sorting machines.