Letters from Santa

This will be the last post on Christmas anything for 2012, I promise.  I wanted to post some more detailed photos of the Santa Mail and I also have some pics of my Christmas Card Envelopes.

This is one of the letters from my future-sister-in-law's students.  Jen was kind enough to decode them for me.

The top half.

This letter was mailed to me from Hailey. She thought she was sending it to Santa and she included her address on the bottom, just in case!

This weekend I did eight letters from Santa.  I did three for my family and 5 for my friends.  I wasn't satisfied with just making them for my family so I pestered people on Facebook until some people took me up on my offer.

This is the display with undecorated envelopes.  As I mentioned in a previous post, the paper is a shimmering gold from Staples called Buttercream and the a shimmering silver also from Staples.  The envelopes are white and cream resume envelopes I already had. 

This is the decorated array.

I put the white envelopes with the silver paper and used it for the girls.  The trim is silver and red, stamped twice.

I use the buttercream and ivory for the boys, stamped in gold and green trim.

I feel like I should know this, but I think the waves of the postmark should be going the other way, right?

This is the very first letter from Santa to Trevor, who was born on Monday, 12/10/12.  This letter is more for Preston's benefit, who is his big brother.  I thought it would only be appropriate for them to both be receiving mail from Santa.

This is a silver letter for Sylvia, who is the daughter of my favorite masseuse.  I don't get to see her {my masseuse} very often, but she is the only person I will see when I want a massage!  She sent me an email with what Sylvia asked for for Christmas and included that she always has Santa encourage her to eat new foods.

I don't think I mentioned it before, but the font in the letters and on the envelopes is called the King & Queen font.

The back of the envelopes from Santa.

Lastly, to feel like I am getting my money's worth out of the stamp sets, I used them to decorate my Christmas Card envelopes.  I printed the addresses on with my computer using a font called 1942 Report.

This is the stack of outgoing cards.  There are a few addressed to my pen pals in there!