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Easy Ways to Personalize Correspondence
By Anneke Lipsanen of Anni Arts
In these days of hurried email one-liners, receiving real snail mail is an unexpected pleasure. Here are easy and cheap suggestions to create correspondence that is memorable and will create a lasting impression with the recipient. • Craft a card. Use colored cardstock and found clipart for a quick and pretty card. Or use one of your photos and cut a frame out of the front of the card. You can embellish it further with little snippets of leftover ribbon, and odd buttons and beads. It is best to use a glue gun for the last two.
• To make it more special, you can make a dimensional cover. Raise some of the pictures by using the little sticky foam squares made for 3D cards.
• If you need to share a fair amount of news, make notelets by cutting and pasting clipart onto a page in a computer program. You can fit two notelets on an A4 or letter-sized page in landscape format. Alternatively you can cut and glue pictures by hand. Vintage graphics are particularly pleasing. Photocopy several for later use.
• It is easy to make a postcard in the same manner, but you might want to enclose it in an envelope to protect your creation.
• Embellish a plain white envelope with the same or matching graphics. Put the address in a frame graphic and use a picture as a seal on the back envelope.
• Consider making a modest little card-and-gift creation. The gift can be a bookmark you created in the same way, a tea bag or coffee pod in a mini envelope, a packet of cocoa or a flat scent sachet. The beverages imply that you share a cuppa with the recipient, while the bookmark and scent sachet will remind your friend of you when she opens that drawer or the book with the bookmark. A gift card from a store can also be included and is a nice way to avoid making and sending a parcel.
• Round out your own pretty stationery range by using a personalized postage stamp. Many countries have stamps that can be customized. Use your theme clipart or photo to coordinate with your creation.
• You can also use online printable crafts for one-of-a kind creations. These can be printed many times over and are a very cost-effective alternative to store-bought cards and stationery.
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Contributor's Note
Being creative is uplifting. Get started on a simple craft project and you will soon feel how satisfying it is to create something beautiful.
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