You know when I was telling you about how I came across my invitations? I mentioned that I was trying to find Doctor Who themed envelopes to go with my stamps. Well, I never actually got round to telling you about the envelopes, did I?
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You know when I was telling you about how I came across my invitations? I mentioned that I was trying to find Doctor Who themed envelopes to go with my stamps. Well, I never actually got round to telling you about the envelopes, did I?
I don’t know why I needed to Google “Doctor Who envelopes” really, because it should have been obvious. It should have been really obvious, because as soon as I saw them I had one of those hitting-myself-in-the-head moments.
Screenshot from The Impossible Astronaut/Doctor Who/BBC
The letters that were sent inviting River, the Ponds, and Canton Everett Delaware III to The Doctor’s death by Lake Silenco in Utah.
They’re Tardis Blue. And they have lots and lots of stamps on them.
Screenshot from The Impossible Astronaut/Doctor Who/BBC
I liked this. I could use this.
Screenshot from The Impossible Astronaut/Doctor Who/BBC
And I did.
I’m not the first to have re-created these envelopes, but it proved rather useful to have a bit of advice! Particularly from this blog, where it is suggested that to get the “stamp effect” without all the faff of cutting perfect stamp edges, simply colour in the background in blue and it will disappear against the colour of the envelopes!
I decided to go for “world” stamps for an “around the world” kind of feel and Googled stamps from other countries. I went for Indonesia, China, India, USA, South Africa, and France. Each were a different colour because I thought it was a nice touch.
I used the label template on Word (the bigger labels the better, I found—more room for error!) and printed them off onto sticky labels.
I arranged them to see which placement I liked best…
And stuck them down! (I used silver pen for the addresses, but I wasn’t clever enough to do a fake one for you all to see—it wasn’t that fancy, just my own handwriting, so you didn’t miss out on anything!)
Do you see what I mean about the blue-edge tip? They totally look like stamp edges!
We spent all Saturday morning doing this. We had a mini production line going. Jack cut up the “stamps,” and I stuck them down. Probably best as I have nails—some of them were pretty tough, I’m not gonna lie!!
Jack just giggled at me as we did this. “You’re such a fangirl!” And your point is…?
But after a couple of hours we were done! We only had 50 or so invitations, so it wasn’t too hard. Probably wouldn’t recommend doing this to anyone with 200-plus guests!
The final detail was the number on the back. The number we put on was the number of people the invitation was for. This wasn’t “information” as such—more of just an easy way to decide who got which number! We just used trusty craft stickers.
Et voila!
By this time it was 12:00 PM and the post box was due to be collected at 12:30 PM, so I popped outside to post them.
Not a far walk—literally at the bottom of my road, which is helpful!
Excitedly, I dropped them in…
And then realised that the box is collected at 11:30 AM on a Saturday, not 12:30 PM.
Boo!! But it did still say “Sat” at the top, which led me to believe that the postman was late! Huzzah!
On Monday, I heard the good news. I love Facebook—don’t you just love Facebook?
OMG YES!
Woohoo!!
I like Beth. Beth is the best. I also really appreciate her posting this picture, because it allowed me to see the condition in which they arrived. No problems with multiple fake stamps. (I had cleared this with the Royal Mail beforehand, but it’s nice to be certain!)
We’ve had so many people letting us know they received and loved the invitations. They were “so us,” as many people put it. I’m happy with that. That’s what we were going for.
Did you put lots of detail into something that reflected your personalities? Anyone else wanna join me with Doctor Who envelopes? They go over a real treat! Honest!
