How to Make a Card Envelope
Making handmade cards has become a very popular craft. Every card you make, using rubber stamps, decorative papers, ribbon, markers and trinkets, is one of a kind. You could purchase envelopes to enclose your cards. However, you can make card envelopes as original as their contents. After you've made your own envelopes, you'll never go back to store-bought again.
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Instructions
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Get plastic templates to make your card envelopes from craft or scrapbook stores. You can also find free templates online (see Resources section). However, the easiest way to make a card envelope is to gently take apart a previously used envelope and use it as your template.
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Turn your paper upside down, so the wrong side is facing up at you. Place your template on top and trace around it with a light pencil mark. Cut out the envelope.
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Place a straight edge (metal ruler) along the areas that require folding. Use a scoring tool or stylus along the straight edge, as you would a pencil, to make the indentation. Fold the envelope along the scoring lines, toward the inside.
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Open the envelope. Place it on a piece of paper to keep your work surface clean. Use a glue stick along the edges of the envelope that need to be attached, except for the top flap. After you write a message or phrase and sign your card, stick it in the envelope and glue the flap shut.
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Tips & Warnings
If you choose to decorate your envelope, other than using decorative paper, be sure the adornments will not fall off while going through the postal service. You can use stickers, rubber stamps or hand painting and markers.
If the card will be given in person, you may add any trinkets, glitter or other objects you desire, just make sure they are securely glued to the card envelope.
References
Resources
- Photo Credit envelope image by Pefkos from Fotolia.com
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puzzlemaker
Oct 04, 2010
I'm flattered you like my envelope photograph so much that you used in your intro. However, that image is copyrighted. If you don't know how to use flickr properly, you need to research Creative Commons. You didn't ask permission and none has been granted, therefore you are in violation of copyright. Remove my image immediately. I've alerted ehow. When using flickr images, you need to look under the "License" section and check what is legal to use. Photographers are very specific as to whether or not photos CAN be used and HOW they can be used. If you still cannot figure it out, send a message asking permission through flickr to the photographer - I get messages there regularly - it's easy to do.
