Unique Card and Matching Envelope

Recently, one of my grandmother's close friends/long time friend of the family, had a stroke. I wanted to send her a cute card in the mail, but unfortunately, I don't have the budget to go to the papyrus store and have a spending spree. Just my luck, as I was shopping at Target this weekend, I stumbled across a pack of scrapbook paper for only 99 cents! There was eight sheets of paper in the pack, and each paper was different in it's design. Even better, all of the pieces of paper followed the same gray/light blue color scheme.

First, I picked the paper I wanted to make my envelope with. This paper had the blue and white image on only one side of the paper, and nothing but white on the back,  so I was able to make a white envelope with a "peek-a-boo" pattern that is visible when a person opens the letter.

First, I gently took apart another envelope to use as a tracing template for my new envelope.

After I had cut out the template for my new envelope, I made the necessary folds, and glued it all together. Voila! Your own envelope! 

Next, I made the card. I got the measurements right by tracing the shape of the notecard that corresponded to the envelope I used as a tracing template. I used a strip of paper left over from the envelope cutting step, and glued it down the middle of my notecard as an accent. 

Now I had a matching envelope and notecard set!! However, I thought that the card still looked a little plain, so.....

I glued little cut out butterflies I have lying around! (I've been working on a: "butterfly chandelier" that will debut online later this week, and these are some extras left over from that craft.) Martha Stewart makes a lovely butterfly punch that can cut out perfect little butterflies each time.

After personalizing the letter, I sent it out! There you go: an inexpensive, one of a kind card. I would encourage anyone who tries this craft out to go with a heavy-weight card stock paper. The paper I used was cute, but it was just regular scrap booking paper, so it was a little flimsy and not as professional looking.