Snail Mail // Pen Pal Booklet

I just wanted to post my first Pen Pal booklet that I made for my IG friend Sarah (@sarazorel) from Sarah vs The World! She made me this cute pen pal booklet first, then I was inspired to make her one back!

So I was thinking, what can I use for my pages that won't weigh down my letter (since you know, more weight = more postage! lol), and I remembered I had a lot of vellum left from a pack I bought a long time ago. I printed some designs on some vellum the previous night so I had this wonky heart vellum page available to use! I used some simple black Thickers to spell out her name on the cover.

I had some gold glitter cardstock in my stash so I cut a heart out of it and used some other skinny white alphas to write out "Hi". I love the cloudy transparency of vellum and how you can still see the wonky hearts printed on the cover.

The next spread I used a glue runner and stuck a project life folded journaling card on the left page. I never knew what to do with those cards in my project life, but they seem perfect for snail mail and booklets! I made some vellum envelopes the other night using my silhouette, so I stuck one on the left page to hold my letter.

Here, I used washi tape to stick a watercolored quote card I made awhile ago on the left side. Then on the right side I used a kraft envelope I had and stuck a large tag that fit nicely in it for my mail tag answers. Get it? Mail Tag? hehe..

In the middle of the booklet, I used another project life folded journaling card for the mail tag questions I'll be asking her, as well as my own answers to those questions. Sarah answered her own mail tag questions in her letter to me, and I thought that was a good idea.

This spread contained a shaker card I made for her project life. I am planning on doing a shaker card tutorial soon, so keep an eye out for that out ;). I also used some skinny washi on one page to write her a note. What's nice about writing on washi tape is that if you mess up, you can just take the washi tape off and start over! I had some ink smears on this page for some reason so I tried to cover it up with some gold sequins, lol.

On the next page I cut up a project life page protector and used a glue runner to stick it to the page, then I used it as a clear pocket to hold the project life cards I'm giving Sarah. The next page is another vellum envelope I made, smaller than the first one, to hold any little goodies I would gift her. I had an unfortunate ink pad accident on this page which resulted me in trying to cover it up with the black and white washi tape, lol.

The last page has a small note for Sarah, using another project life card. I used washi tape to stick it onto the page in case she wants to use the other side for her project life. There was some more ink smears (darn!) but it's ok, lesson learned: if you print on vellum, give it ample time to dry before handling!

In case you were wondering, I used my sewing machine to bind this booklet together since it was too large for my tiny attacher. I had fun putting this together and I will probably experiment more with booklets!

A small little detail I loved from this booklet are the "tabs" I made. I will post a tutorial up about this soon! :)

DIY heart tabs!

If you liked the paper design I used for the cover, I made it available for download here! If you end up using it, please tag #ughiloveitblog so I can see it in action! :)