Seeing this post finally made me get off my arse and do a little crafting. I decorated two envelopes in order to prepare for hopefully writing the associated penpal letters this weekend.
My greatest crafting disaster, hm. It's not a particularly huge disaster but sometime last year, I decorated an envelope in a similar manner, with motif paper with torn edges glued to a shop bought envelope. I am not 100% sure but I think I must have been sloppy and not glued on one of the edges too tightly so it came off in the letter sorting machines of Deutsche Post. As I sent the letter to one of my German penpals and she said it arrived with an envelope that had like a third of it torn off and a chunk of each page of the letter papers missing, too. It was wholly illegible due to it and I had to redo the entire letter. That made both me and her very sad. I think it must have been one of the edges of my deco paper because it would fit with the location of the tear. Been using a lot more glue on my envelopes since!
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My greatest crafting disaster, hm. It's not a particularly huge disaster but sometime last year, I decorated an envelope in a similar manner, with motif paper with torn edges glued to a shop bought envelope. I am not 100% sure but I think I must have been sloppy and not glued on one of the edges too tightly so it came off in the letter sorting machines of Deutsche Post. As I sent the letter to one of my German penpals and she said it arrived with an envelope that had like a third of it torn off and a chunk of each page of the letter papers missing, too. It was wholly illegible due to it and I had to redo the entire letter. That made both me and her very sad. I think it must have been one of the edges of my deco paper because it would fit with the location of the tear. Been using a lot more glue on my envelopes since!