Handmade envelope from paper sheet - DIY decorative envelope - Lemoncraft Yesterday

A crafter can create a complex base for an interactive card, a clever pocket for additional photos in an album, or a multi-element, spatial composition in an exploding box. Despite all these skills, sometimes the simplest things can be a challenge! Do you know how to make an envelope from a sheet of paper? One that will perfectly fit the card you've prepared? Handmade cards often have a three-dimensional composition that makes it impossible to hide them in a traditional store-bought envelope. If you don't have or don't want to use a box for the card, you might wonder what to do with it. The solution to this problem is prepared for you today by Lemoncraft Designer, Agnieszka, who shows how to make a decorative DIY envelope in a few simple steps. Beautiful, sturdy, and worthy of your amazing craftsmanship!
DIY Decorative Envelope - It's worth knowing how to make it!
In everyone's life - not only for those involved in cardmaking - situations often arise where it's worth knowing how to make an envelope from a sheet of paper. This knowledge can come in handy when:
- You have a handmade card and run out of boxes, and the work doesn't fit in a traditional envelope.
- You want to give someone money, a gift voucher, cinema tickets, but you don't want to package the gift in a regular envelope.
- You need to tuck documents, a letter, or an invitation into an envelope, but you can't find any stationery at home.
A sheet of paper is something everyone will surely find at home. Learn Agnieszka's method for a decorative DIY envelope and rescue yourself from many a dilemma! Lemoncraft Designer shows how to make an envelope from a sheet of paper, decorating her creation with Lemoncraft Yesterday scrapbooking papers. You can purchase these papers from our online store: lemoncraft.pl/....
How to make an envelope from a sheet of paper - step-by-step tutorial
All you need to prepare an envelope from a sheet of paper is:
- A sufficiently stiff A4 sheet of paper, such as one from a watercolor pad, business card cardboard, or technical pad.
- A ruler.
- Pencil and eraser.
- Scissors.
- Good glue, e.g., bookbinding glue.
Additional tools that will make your work easier and help achieve an even better result are:
- A paper creasing board.
- A corner rounding punch.
- Scrapbooking papers, such as those used by Aga, i.e., Lemoncraft Yesterday (lemoncraft.pl/....
From the tutorial video prepared by the Designer, you'll learn how to make an envelope from a sheet of paper:
- Using a DL-sized card as an example, you'll learn how to prepare an envelope so that the card fits inside.
- You'll learn how to correctly measure the sizes of individual envelope parts (pay attention, for example, to the 2-millimeter gap between successive folds, which allows for a convenient space between the upper and lower parts of the envelope for inserting the card without it bending) - Agnieszka provides all the dimensions you need to know to prepare your first decorative DIY envelope!
- You'll learn how to create slightly three-dimensional sides of the envelope so that the contents don't fall out.
- You'll learn how to create an aesthetic envelope flap closed with small neodymium magnets.
- You'll see how to quickly decorate the finished envelope to make it a beautiful packaging for your handmade card or another small gift.
Don't wait; try making your first envelope from a sheet of paper today! With the help of Lemoncraft Designer and Lemoncraft papers, it's really easy! And when you complete your envelope using our tutorial, be sure to use the following tags when posting photos on social media. It will help us notice your post and leave a kind comment! Use:
#lemoncraftscrapbookingpapers
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#lemoncraftpapers
#lemoncraftscrapbooking
#lemoncraftcardmaking
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