I decided to make the back look sort of like a gift and I found this really pretty glitter washi tape that matched the green glitter cardstock perfectly. For the goodbye letter, I didn’t want to make it exactly like the return letter so I took ideas from the return letter but left others out. The back has more space to decorate so I wanted to make sure I put more attention there. I started getting my idea ready for the back before decorating the front. How to decorate elf on the shelf goodbye letter for a harry potter theme. The back needs a little decorating before we adhere it to the front piece so let’s get to that. If you have any fun corner punches you can punch the corners of the cardstock if not no worries you can decorate them! Since the goodbye letter is smaller I decided to not go too crazy with decorating. Next, choose what color cardstock you want to use and you can either use clear glue or zots to adhere the letter to the cardstock. Once my cardstock was cut to my liking I then used a corner punch on the letter, I prefer the rounded corners but you can leave them alone if you don’t want to round them or decorate. Since I cut the cardstock to fit the letter I don’t need to cut the letter at all. I turned them each over and marked on the back (non-glittery side) how small I wanted to cut and then cut them. Using my paper cutter I cut the two pieces of cardstock to 8×5&7/8. I did have to cut both pieces so they fit behind the 5×7 properly. I chose red for the back to really emphasize Gryffindor. Setting your elf on the shelf goodbye letter on to cardstock.ĭo you have your printout ready? Great now grab some pretty Christmas cardstock and a paper cutter and let’s get decorating!įor this Christmas letter, I used two pieces of 8.5×11 glittery cardstock, one green for the front and one red for the back. Since my sister surprised the girls with another elf I have also added their new elf Princess, she is also not one you can find on google only here because I had to make that outfit for her, I have also dropped her below. If you are wondering about the Snowflake elf and how she has harry potter attire I added that myself using design software but if you want her I have left her below. I also found snowflakes and added those to the corner and found a cute tiara to symbolize princess and added that to the opposite corner of the snowflakes. Copy and paste your text into the Canva design and choose your favorite Christmas fonts! If you want to add an elf you can get one from google and insert it. When you have your background ready you can now add your text. Word different so I use Canva or other design software. I used my design software to make the 5×7 background, I believe it would be tough to specify the size on word so I highly recommend using Canva for this. The way you can do this is to have a simple background which you can find on google or Canva. I like to make elf on the shelf goodbye letters smaller than the return one so I used 5×7 invitation paper, then I cut 2 larger pieces of cardstock so there is a pretty sparkly border around the letter, but before we can paste onto a pretty cardstock you must find or make a nice background. You can do a simple Christmas background or Christmas colors if you aren’t doing a harry potter theme. Again I did the harry potter theme and built my entire design off of this. Once you have your letter written or copied you can use Canva or even Microsoft word to create the printout portion of the letter.
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