How to Make a Japanese Envelope: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Karen for Expert Village. Now I'm going to show you how to make this great Japanese folded envelope. This is a fabulous envelope to make, it requires no tape or glue. You can use any kind of paper that you want. You can use card stock, you can use wrapping paper, it can be any size that you want and it is so quick and easy and very impressive to look at. This is how it opens. Like this and you put your card in the middle. Okay let me show you how to do it. What we would need is any kind of paper. I have chosen this nice paper, a pencil to mark with a ruler. Now a eight and a half I'm sorry a eight and a half by eleven sheet of paper will give you a envelope that will fit a quarter folded card. We are using a eight and a half by eleven sheet of paper. You want to turn the paper over to the back of it if it has a side. Mine has some silvery flex on that side so this is the back. So it is going to be the back or the inside of the envelope and you want to take the ruler and place it from corner to corner going diagonally on the paper. You are just going to very lightly draw a line in the center. Now you would go to the other corner to corner. You want to be pretty exact on this putting your ruler corner to corner and again make a light line to mark the center. Now we have marked our center point. "