Saturday, August 07, 2010

Harry Potter Letters

Dear Kelly,

Later this month, my sister and I are taking Sam and my oldest nephew, Dylan, to Universal Studios Orlando, which includes the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter. We are all super excited and I decided to make us all official Hogwarts acceptance letters like the ones Harry gets in the first book/movie.

At first I thought I would need paper and envelopes that were or looked like parchment, but I watched the begining of the movie and decided that some cream cardstock would be fine. I found that in the stationery section at Joann's. It took me about a billion years to get the right settings in Word to print on the envelopes, but I now have the A2 settings saved for future use.



For the envelope seals, I couldn't find a brass H, so I bought a fun rubber stamp alphabet stamp set which worked just as good. I already had dark red wax seals, but it took awhile to melt them because I couldn't find my heat gun and had to use a hair dryer instead.



I'm pretty happy with how they turned out and hope the boys think they're fun.

Love,
Shayne

2 comments:

kelly said...

Totally great! I'm sure the boys will love them. Are you going to mail them? Or... send them via owl? ;)

Shayne said...

Sam's is waiting for him on his bed. The address includes "Second door on the Right." For my sister and nephew, I put them in a bigger envelope addressed to her. Owls don't leave postmarks :)