Let’s try to add more flourish and flair to your custom envelopes. With the following digital design tricks you can add a more customized and creative feel with your color envelopes that should help them be more impressive, competitive and of course highly memorable. So read each item below one by one and see if it is possible to apply these flourishes and flairs to your special custom envelopes. Once you try these, you will see how much more better and more beautiful your envelopes can look.

1. Use dynamic colors in the text – The text that resides in your custom envelopes can actually be more than just black. With just a few digital design tweaks you can use more dynamic colors to your text. So instead of having text that are just in black ink, your envelop text can be formatted with gradient colors for example.

Color gradients make your text look a lot more interesting and of course are more visible than simple pure inks. Moreover, this adds a more emotional and dynamic element to the text that makes people want to respond more to the envelope. So try out adding dynamic colors to your text, you will see a big difference with the response rates of your custom envelopes easily.

2. Adding shadow elements – You should also try out adding shadowed elements. Shadows can help certain parts of your envelope text and design to become more visible. A design element that has a shadow will of course look like it was raised a little bit closer to the reader. So try out and see if your design software can handle shadows in its blending for the text. This can have a great effect on your designs, especially the ones that need to be more visible than others.

3. Make elements glow – If you really want some of your elements to be really visible, you should make them glow. One of the best digital effects that you will want to try out is the glow effect. This is especially effective for colored envelopes that have a dark hue.

With dark hued custom envelopes, you can add glow effects to certain text elements to make them shine. More readers of course will focus on these elements because they have those specially lighted elements. So try this effect out if you really want people to center in on your special elements.

4. Adding spotlighting effects – Another great digital design enhancement that you can try out is spotlighting. In many design applications you can actually render a lighter area of a design through a spotlight effect or a diffused area with lighter or whiter hues. With this in effect you can also direct reader attention to specific spots in your color envelope designs. The difference here though is that you can center in on larger spots in your design unlike the glows where one specific element is glowing at a time.

5. Inserting textured elements – Lastly, you may also want to add some textured elements. Adding textured backgrounds and text can add a whole other special theme for your envelope designs.

For example, you can make the envelope look like it was made of wood. Or maybe you can make your text and logo look like they were made from stone or even polished steel or gold. These textures will add that special material dimension to your envelope designs that will be useful for certain particular themes. One thing is for sure, this will make your envelopes look a lot more memorable. So try inserting more textured elements when you can.

Great! So try out these special flourishes and flairs for your custom envelop designs. These digital enhancements can really make a big difference with your own special layouts. Good Luck!


Gary Maxwell is an artist focused on catalog printing. Born and raised in Colorado, He is currently a freelance for online designing promoting color envelopes.