Ever notice the inside of the envelopes bills come in? Sometimes these have interesting blue or black patterns to prevent reading through the envelope. These same patterns can be incorporated into your paper craft.
Remove the flap and anywhere the glue original is placed, and the cellophane window, before using this paper. If you are doing a collage and need something with black on white to resemble newspaper, see if this will work instead. This paper is much less likely to die an early death due to the acid remaining in the paper from its manufacture.
I use this craft paper, cut in strips, to make cylinder beads. I have a necklace of different black on white beads, and one of blue on white beads. The ears for the Truly Nolan trademark mouse make interesting black spots on beads made from their envelopes.
About half of the cylinder beads on this necklace are made from business envelopes.
Get your bills by email? Then watch for other business envelopes coming to your home or office. Enlist friends and family members to save their envelopes for you. See what you can do with this free material. If you need a lot of paper with the same pattern, look at office supply stores for boxes of envelopes. Ask if you can see the inside of the envelops before you buy.
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