Enveloping Our Important Papers.

We have a lot of papers. Moving overseas creates LOTS of paperwork. I had a plastic folder that I kept it all in, but it's dieing a slow and painful death. I brought a whole plastic tub of fabric with me to Texas. I have used some of it, but most of it has been sitting.
Shamefully.
Recently, I was surfing the web (ok, glued to Pinterest) and I found a great way to start using the fat quarters that I buy, and really any scraps big enough.  Here is the original post I found. It is no sew, which I was a bit apprehensive about, but I love the result! It's pretty, and reusable, plus it shouldn't fall apart after a couple of uses! Right before I started the first one I asked the Squid if he wanted one. He looked at me funny as if to say, "How do I say this without being mean?" But, he said he'd like one and later admitted, that upon second thought he was really excited about it. His is the Green and Brown one. He picked those to be professional. :)

I picked up a package of fusible web. If I had to do it again, I'd probably get a stiffer one. Just for structure. The lady at Hancock's was very helpful, since I have never used web I wanted to make sure I got the right one. The double sided one. 

I took one of my selected fat quarters, cut a piece of webbing to fit, ironed the rough side to the wrong side of the fabric, and let it cool.

 Once it was cool, I stripped off the paper, if you look real close, you can see the difference in color of the fabric. Maybe I should spend some time honing my photo skills.

I then put the wrong side of the second fabric down on the fusible part and ironed it together. After it had cooled, I took my envelope pattern (just an envelope I had opened up and made a little bigger) and cut it out of the fabric.

After ironing the creases in the envelope, I ironed a strip of the webbing rough side down to one of the flaps, stripped the paper off, and ironed it down onto the other flap. I did the same for the bottom.

I sewed buttons on the top flap, and just below it for a closure.
These are all the envelopes I made last night. Sweet!