Making envelopes with your own hands

Envelope is usually associated with mailing letters. Although communication has now largely become electronic, envelopes are still in demand. They are needed in organizations that distribute advertisements, notifications, documents. In order not to contact the services of printing houses, it is easy to arrange envelopes that correspond to postal standards, right in your office. The same applies to the manufacture of exclusive versions (not postal ones). It is not difficult to create them yourself.

Making an envelope with your own hands

Create the following at home:

• Envelopes of any size in accordance with postal standards.
• Branded with a logo for both mailing and personal delivery (non-standard).
• Exclusive handmade envelopes in various techniques, designed for packaging gift certificates, discount cards, money.

So, making envelopes is the creation of packaging products for blanks, information, advertising materials.

Ways to fold envelopes

You can make different kinds of envelopes from ordinary paper: from standard rectangular to exclusive. The simplest version is easy to make from a square sheet. To do this, you need to do the following:

1. Fold the opposite corners to the center of the workpiece.
2. Lower the bend to the center so that you can perform the gluing.
3. The upper corner also point to the middle, so that the envelope is sealed or closed using a reusable fastener.

By a similar technology, envelopes are made from rectangular blanks, or even a heart-shaped source can be used.

Souvenir envelopes from designer paper

Making envelopes in this way will create an exclusive handicraft at home. You will need the following:

• Decorative paper or cardboard with a print, embossed, pearly, metallized, lacquered surface;
• Template, scheme of standard or unusual shape;
• Pencil, ruler, eraser or printer, if the selected template can be printed;
• Scissors, knife or office cutter;
• glue;
• Decor (satin ribbons, lace, volumetric stickers);
• Punch-holes with figured clichés for decorating corners, edges and obtaining punching holes;
• Figured scissors (optional).

The technology of work is:

1. On the prepared paper, draw or print an envelope scheme using the printer . If the paper is for printing, you can find a template with a photoprint and complete the envelope or a partial envelope.
2. Cut out the workpiece.
3. If the paper is thick, it is worthwhile to make grooves along the fold lines by drawing a ruler through a corner of the ruler, with a spoke or a non-writing rod from the handle. This will accurately and accurately fold the envelope.
4. Execute the folds.
5. Glue the elements.
6. Make a suitable decor of narrow ribbons, decorate the edges of the envelope details with a punch or cut the edges with figured scissors in the form of a wave, glue the label with the inscription (to whom and for what reason the envelope will be handed over).

All is ready!

There can be a lot of design options. It is good to combine different types of paper, to choose interesting forms of envelopes. The main thing is that the size of the received product corresponds to the gift being put.

Decorative envelopes from fabric

Unusual and very beautiful envelopes are easy to make not only from paper and cardboard. For these purposes, felts are perfect. This material is soft to the touch, easily cut and does not require the processing of the edges. The following will be required for manufacturing:

• Felt of different colors, corresponding to the subject of the envelope (New Year's, Spring);
• Ruler;
• a piece of chalk;
• scissors;
• Threads of contrast to the basis of color;
• needle;
• Adhesive or thermo-gun (not to sew decor, but glue);
• Ornaments (beads, sequins, buttons, ribbons, braid).

The technology of execution is:

1. Lay out the felt intended for the base.
2. Draw a chalk pattern on a gift template, for example, a discount card. Do not forget about seam allowances. Stapling parts will be performed on the front side.
3. Cut out the workpiece.
4. Fold the part in the form of an envelope.
5. Sew the desired sides on the front side, performing decorative stitches at the same distance.
6. Glue the decor from the felt contrast to the background colors in accordance with the subject of the envelope.
7. Make a buckle to cover the envelope (button with loop, velcro, ties from ribbons, braid or decorative cord ;
8. Glue beads, beads, beautiful buttons in the form of a pattern and other elements.

All is ready!

Printing of postal envelopes

If you need a lot of envelopes for mailing, you can easily make them right in the office. All you need is a computer with a printer and a specialized program. Making envelopes with it becomes very simple, convenient and fast even for the layman.

The work goes like this:

1. Choose the size of the envelope from the standard.
2. Choose a template for the location of text blocks.
3. Download the information that you need to fill in the appropriate fields.
4. Save your template.
5. Send to the press.

The advantage of such programs is the ability to work with databases of addressees, as well as full correspondence of the received products to all postal standards.

Making envelopes with a logo

If you have your own brand, an organization that has a developed corporate style, colors, then all elements of printed products should be performed in the same design and color scheme.

The manufacture of postal envelopes you can order in the printing house, while professional designers will develop you the appearance of the envelope. Printing services and work will not be expensive, so you can perform the layout yourself.

The program for developing envelopes allows you to select not only text blocks, but also design templates: as standard, included in the library of blanks, and individual variants. Therefore, you do not need to use printing equipment to make envelopes, just office equipment. The result is not worse than professional performance.

As you can see, making envelopes as postal for mass mailing, and exclusive souvenirs is not such a difficult task if you use the capabilities of modern technologies and materials.