Hello Hive Creatives! Today I bring you a new craft for giving. Lately I have been making a lot of beautiful things by hand to give to my boyfriend, and on this occasion I will show you how to make a letter with an aged effect and a mini envelope to put it in. Below I leave you the detailed step by step, I hope you like it.
Materiales.
- Hoja de papel para acuarela o cartulina gruesa.
- Café líquido o acuarela color café oscuro.
- Micropunta negro, marcador negro o tinta.
- Tijeras y colbón.
- Lápiz de labios (opcional)
Materials.
- Sheet of watercolor paper or thick cardboard.
- Liquid coffee or dark brown watercolor.
- Black microtip, black marker or ink.
- Scissors and colbon.
- Lipstick (optional)
PROCESO // PROCESS
Empecemos con la carta:
Let's start with the letter:
We will start by tearing the paper along the entire edge to make it look a little damaged or old; then, to get the aged color of the old letters, we will dip the paper in coffee (it must be cold) or watercolor, as you prefer, for a few minutes on each side.
After that, we take the paper out, let it dry or use a hair dryer on it and we will see how this paper turns a beige or off-white color.
When the paper is dry, we burn the edges with a lighter. After burning the edges, we wrinkle it a bit and it should look something like this:
It seemed like a really good idea to soak the paper in coffee to get the aged effect, but it occurred to me that it would also look really cool if I did that, since it reminded me a lot of pirate cards and I wanted to achieve something like that. This step is optional, but I liked the result.
With ink, a black microtip or whatever you have, we write the letter. In my case, to give it a more romantic touch, I added some kisses (that's what the lipstick was for).
Ahora sigamos con el sobre:
Now let's move on to the envelope:
For the envelope, we need a strong paper so that it will not break when folded, and a perfect square, because all the sides must be the same, otherwise it will not turn out well. The first thing we are going to do is fold two ends of the box inward like this:
After we have folded the paper as shown in the previous picture, what we are going to do is to fold the bottom part up, but only a little bit, like this:
We will place this double in between the other two ends that we folded to make the envelope. It may be a little crooked, but you can adjust the double until it fits. See how it takes shape?
Then we fold the top and it should look like a little envelope; you can leave it like that if you want, but in my case I decided to add a sticker that I made with the same leftover paper.
And done! I really liked the result and I hope you will too. I'll be back with more soon!
Thanks for reading and watching.
El resultado quedó muy lindo y creativo, fácilmente se puede ingeniar una invitación del pasado para una fiesta del futuro 😃
Excelente idea. Saludos
Muchas gracias c: Saludos
Queda una carta muy bonita y creativa, tu novio debe estar muy contento con los detalles que le das. Saludos.
Espero que si.
Gracias por el comentario c: