Another one of my Japanese book purchases was this sweet little book called "Self-Made Envelope Stationery" (ISBN 978-4-8085-8541-9). It contains lots of projects to make cute stationery items from new and used envelopes. It is recycling Japanese style!
Here are a few pages from the book -
Sarah has been feeling crafty and has made her own envelope project - a small file made from envelopes and decorated with masking tape. It is the perfect size to store coupons or receipts.
She has also made a couple of tags by applying Japanese masking tape to shipping tags.
You can find some more of our security envelope projects here.
I hope to get into some sewing with my new supplies soon! I just have to organise the kids for their return to school next week first. The school holidays seemed to go way too fast this year!
Posted by Lisa and Sarah
18 comments:
Wow, how cute! You did some serious shopping in Japan, I love it all.
I really have a fascination with Japan, it is high of my list of to go places - loving the little animals made from envelopes - Thanks for sharing Lisa!
Wow! You are blogging like a woman possessed. I love it.
Oh man, I so want this book! You simply have to make every project in it and blog about them all!!
Sarah is quite the crafter! And that masking tape is simply genius!
Oh - what a wonderful book!!! I have saved heaps of envelopes with the different security patterns inside them and am still pondering what I might use them for.
Yep, the holidays have simply flown by this time! Here's to lots more crafting when the kids go back to school :)
I never thought old envelopes could be so much fun.
I have so many things to do today, and NONE of them is "playing with envelopes and scissors." I will try to pretend I did not see this cute post...
LOVE Sarah's tags! And those little animal messengers are just the cutest things - what clever ideas!
Very cool! I love that envelope over the door handle. And Sarah's little book is very cool too -- and very useful!
What a lovely book!
Bear regards,
Beertje Zonn
Earth friendly and cute!
Oh, I love this book--it's making me a bit homesick, though (I used to live in Japan--still kicking myself for not buying a stash of masking tape before leaving!).
Those masking tapes are fantastic! Love these projects with them... and that book...*swoon*... the Japanese have such clever ideas! Fun to see how you're enjoying all the treats from your trip. Happy Day ((HUGS))
Looks like a lovely book and those shipping tags are great-love that masking tape!
Hello, I write from France and juste arrived on you blog.
I love it, it's so joyfull (do you say "joyfull" ?) !
I love the tittle too. Did you think about mary Popins when you chose it ?
You can go and see my blog and my boutique. I create and make notebooks with recycled paper. Hope you will like it.
http://epistyle.canalblog.com
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Bye
What great ideas! Are the instructions pretty easy to folllow?
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