KSU: REALLY recycled

Only kawaii tape and stickers, or just whatever we receive and manage to pull off the envies?

lol Let's go with anything. I'm pretty good at getting washi off. ;-)

Cool! I'm in!

lol... I think Washi is the easiest to get off of other envies, Pattie... :P

lol SHHHHHHHHHHHH! They don't need to know that!!!

So can it only be tape and stickers you've received since signing up for the swap or can it be from older envies? (I'm such a pack rat and have saved really cute envies people have sent me since I started SB lol and found a huge old school sticker album I bought at the thrift store the other day b/c I keep my flakes on the outside of my flake storage box and my one year old keeps peeling em off lol

I went through my old envies and picked out the ones with tape/stickers I can salvage off of them. I would say old ones count. =) I keep a ton of envies to recycle too.

I cut up an adorable memo and taped the characters to the envie. Anything recycled goes!!! =D

Anyone thinking of starting a second envelope.....? =D

I probably have enough to do two envies. I haven't actually started yet, I've been working on the matchbox swap. But I've got a pile of received envies here to peel tape off of for this swap.

I was thinking the same thing... once I started salvaging bits I wound up with enough for at least two envelopes.

Clearly, I don't swap enough... LOL I'm struggling to get this one all pretty-fied for the swap!!

@althena I save envies to recycle them. I have a hoard of them actually. =/ It's a sickness.

I just used a bigger envie since I had so much tape. =)

Usually the ones I get are so loved that I don't see how to reuse them. Hmm... and never thought it was 'okay' to peel the goodies off and use them again.

This has changed my perspective! @tiggerkitn25 do you have any hints/tips/tricks for recycling the envies?

Not really, I just keep the ones that are sturdy enough to reuse. Usually I just put one of my addy labels on it and write the new address on a piece of white paper and tape it down over the old one. Oh! And sometimes you have to use deco tape on the bottom edge to cover the code/lines that the P.O. prints on there. I don't usually peel stuff off like this, but it was fun! I did have to glue some of the tape/stickers back down with a glue stick since they lost their stickiness. I suppose if I did a smash book or junk journal this would be a good way to keep some of the cool decorations and display them.

What if..... we did one envie to use and enclosed another (smaller one) for our partner? I'm an envelope hoarder too! If they're cute or have cute stuff on them, I keep. If they're still in decent shape, I keep. If they have cute stamps on them, I keep. See where I'm going with this?? :D

I think that's perfectly acceptable. And I also save things that are too cute to toss. =D

For the record, the deco tape I've been peeling off envies and I are not on speaking terms.... However, the washi tape is behaving and trying to make up for its belligerent cousin.

That's funny... I've done okay with both deco and washi tape. Though, my envies were 'fresh' since I haven't hoarded them (before?!).

I did cheat with one sticker... I was playing with a new 'toy' -- old school label maker -- and stuck the result of that on there too.