I’m a sucker for pretty stationeries and especially hand written notes. Communication these days are all digital, it’s a sweet gesture to receive and send hand written notes. I have a weakness for stationery and paper goods. I like the touch of smooth papers, sucker for nice designs and packaging. I gathered quite a collection and my most precious one is a stack of the smoothest Japanese stock cards and envelopes that I’ve been thinking of customizing in a while. Since I didn’t want to ruin and waste my papers, I decided to customize it properly using my favorite stationery related items: colored stamp pads, washi tapes, stamps, decorative papers and glitter (I slightly pee’d my pants writing these items in one sentence).

Here I’ve illustrated the simple ways of how I created my personalized stationery.

Materials you’ll need: good stock cards and envelopes (I got mine from Tokyo but Paper Source has some really great varieites), decorative papers (from Daiso), colored ink pads, stamp, washi tapes, decorative stickers

Tools: ruler, X-acto knife, cutter, pencil, eraser, colored pens, and glue

Step 1: Create envelope liners

I opened an envelope and traced it to create an envelope liner template. Using decorative papers of my choice, I traced and cut the papers using the template I just created.

Step 2: Attach the envelope liners

Using glue or double-sided tape, attach the liners to the envelope and flatten it out.

Step 3: Get decorating

Get creative and start personalizing the stock cards using materials you have at hand. I created simple card designs that will go well with the liners I’ve just created. It would really help if you already have a sketch of what you want to do prior to decorating so you have a guideline and avoid making mistakes.

Final step: write a sweet note to a special someone in your life