We wanted to find a way to seal the envelopes in a way that would prevent recipients from having to use letter openers because of the way we lined the envelopes with fabric (more on that here). So we made stickers.

We made little stickers of the character 囍 - a ubiquitous presence at all Chinese weddings. It’s made up of two copies of the Chinese character for happiness 喜(xi, pronounced “shee”). I had carved a little rubber stamp (not freehand, aided by a backwards rubbing of the character I printed out) of the character.

We used the lucky color red and stamped them onto paper the same weight and color as the STDs, ran that through our trusty little Xyron machine to apply an adhesive to the back of the paper, (more on the Xyron here), sprinkled them with clear heat embossing powder…

Melted the powder down (you can see in this picture sections of powder beginning to melt)… (for more on heat embossing, check out this post.)

Cut them out with the help of an obliging Littlest Sister…

Trimmed them down with a handy corner rounder… (Chinese prefer things that are round for auspicious symbols)…

And behold, cute little custom-made stickers!

If you’ve persisted through this post, leave a comment below and I’ll be in touch with the first 5 (i.e. probably all) commenters to get your address so that I can mail you a little present as a “thank you”/”congratulations!” for your stamina :)

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