Help with stuck envelopes

[buttons2]

I just pulled about a hundred envelopes out of my storage closet to use on my Christmas cards and the flaps are stuck to the envelope!!!!!

Surely some of you stampers have had this problem. What is the solution for salvaging them?

Thanks.

Wanda

[arlenevita]

Un-Do?

[scrappychica]

would steam (like fanning them over a tea kettle steam) loosen the adhesive enough to open them? yikes 100 though? that might take a while to do.

[buggainok]

Unless they are very firmly "stuck" I would try this: take a pencil and insert it under the flap on the edge, roll it gently all around the flap.

[jutta]

I wonder if putting them in the freezer, then when they are really cold, try Bugga's idea would loosen them up.

Jutta

[KatarinaM]

I had the same thing happen to me. I tried the steam thing and it took a looooon time just to un-stick one envelope. I gave up on that idea. I have a feeling I'm going to be using them for srap paper...

[mlhaun]

The freezer sounds best. Steam would distort the paper.

[lharnish]

We have this happen to our stationery at work during humid weather. Usually they're not stuck completely and sliding a skinny letter opener gently around where the flap and the base meet will loosen them up enough to separate them.

Also, with future envelopes, store them in a sealed ziplock bag with the air sucked out of them. I have to do this because my craft room is in my basement and even with the humidifier running in summer, there is still dampness in the air.

Hope this helps.

[AnnaBananaJustice]

Quote:

Originally Posted by lharnish

We have this happen to our stationery at work during humid weather. Usually they're not stuck completely and sliding a skinny letter opener gently around where the flap and the base meet will loosen them up enough to separate them.

Also, with future envelopes, store them in a sealed ziplock bag with the air sucked out of them. I have to do this because my craft room is in my basement and even with the humidifier running in summer, there is still dampness in the air.

Hope this helps.

Added tip: Save the silica packets from shoes and such, pop one of those in the ziplock bag as well. The tiny ones in some medication bottles (plastic) are great for embossing powders as well.