On My Craft Table - Pocket Letters and creative mail

Yet more pocket letters

 and other creative

 snail mail...

Sooo.....I've been busy...

Yep...my craft table looks like a tornado decided to come by, say hello and do a little dance...

And why is that when you want to be creative you have to do none creative and - I hate to say it - boring things, like presentations and working...

Anyway...moaning aside...here is some projects I've been up to recently...

Pocket letter!!

Here's a lovely black, gold and white pocket letter. 

I have so much gold things right now. I'm just in love with the colour - especially with glitter attached!

For my pocket letters I seem to like having a shaker pocket where I put sequins of different sizes and other flat-ish charms or beads. In the middle of this one is a sticker that sadly lost it's stick so I put it in there :) So sense is wasting a pretty sticker!

I love decorating the outside to, especially down the spine since that is the ugliest part - don't you think? I used two types of ribbon and then attached a chain with charms attached with jump rings. I attached the entire chain with a larger jump ring into the tied ribbon.

Snail mail booklet

 and letter!!

Front

Inside

Letter

This is a snail mail booklet with an Alice in Wonderland theme. I seem to be doing this them a lot lately! I just love it!

My pallie Vanessa and I have this running letter game where we set a challenge for each other and the next time one of us sends a letter it has to be a certain theme from the 2 choices that has been set.

My challenge was movie or leaf. I picked Alice in Wonderland since I'm totally in love with this theme right now! (see my previous projects! I'm a bit obsessed!)

I used a plain sheet of black card stock, folded it 3 times (but each fold was not the same size), covered it in patterned paper I bought from Etsy. I also found pictures from etsy to decorate the front, completed with ribbons, adhesive lace, a large charm and an 'open me' tag I also got from etsy.

The letter I just used washi tape that matched the colours. You can't see it, but I also used tea pot and tea-bag stamps on the letter!

On My Craft Table - Pocket Letters

Recent new creations!!

So I've got a few recent creations I'd like to share.

I've gotten into pocket letters recently, they're so fun and easy to do and - if you're not too much of a perfectionist - you can do them in a few hours.

Tips and tricks I've learned

 when making pocket

 letters -

♥ Go and get a box you can organise things purely for pocket letters - that way you don't have to search all around your craft room/space for embellishments or goodies to put in them. (even better if you can organise by colour!)

♥ Pre-cut you decorative paper - if you do this you can just go ahead pop them into the pockets. You can get all nine pocket pages from just one 12''12 scrapbook paper with some still left over. If you cut multiple at one time think of how many pocket letters pages you could make in one go!

♥ Bearing in mind the above - make more than one in one go! You've already got the embellishments and supplies out, you may as well! But make them slightly different so each one you make is unique :)

♥ Buy two ring binder folders - one to store the ones you make and one to store the ones you receive from your pallies.