How to make an envelope. DIY paper envelope

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Envelope

- This is just a shell or packaging for inserting various objects or papers. Basically, we are used to thinking of an envelope as a “packaging” for letters or documents. But there are also envelopes made of thick fabrics or blankets for newborns.

Today we will learn how to make envelopes for different needs

and let's start, perhaps, with the most common envelope - a paper envelope.

How to make an envelope out of paper?

The simplest envelope

can be made from a square sheet of paper by folding the corners towards the center. To do this, you will need a square sheet of paper of the desired size, a ruler and a pencil.

1) Mark the very center of the sheet

point, measuring the distance to it using a ruler.

2) Fold the left and right sides inward so that the corners touch the center point

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3) Then fold the bottom side up so that it covers the center and can be glued to the two already folded corners

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4) Apply glue to the bottom sides of the envelope as shown in the photo. You can also use double sided tape

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5) Fold the top corner down. The envelope is ready!

This envelope can be made in just a couple of minutes. It is based on the simple principle of adding angles. Here are a few more schemes for making envelopes from sheets of different shapes:

Diamond envelope

Envelope “from the heart”

Envelope with a square

Simple options

Envelopes serve mainly, as before, to transmit information. For a letter sent by mail, there are standards that must be adhered to. A4 sheet fully meets these standards. Having placed it vertically, you need to bend the upper part, measuring 5.1 cm, and bend the lower part in half. To glue the finished envelope, you will need two strips of paper 12.3 cm long and 4 cm wide. They need to be coated with glue and the side edges of the envelope glued together. To indicate the sender and recipient addresses, it is better to adhere to the general rules so that the letter is sure to arrive.

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Note! It is very important not to forget to stick the stamp, otherwise everything will be done in vain.

Nowadays, information is most often transmitted on disks and flash drives. If a flash drive can be attached to a keychain or simply carried in a pocket, then the disks must be handled carefully and stored in separate envelopes. But what if the envelope was torn or simply did not exist? The answer is simple: you need to make an envelope for the disc yourself. Take a “stripped” disk and a sheet of A4 paper.

Having placed the disk in the middle of the sheet, we make longitudinal folds along the edges.

We move the disk closer to the center, but allow a difference of about 2 cm.

We insert the smaller part of the sheet into the larger one, closing the disk.

We tried it on, marked the folds in the right places, and for ease of use, on the smaller part we folded the corners inward.

Now you need to sign what kind of information is stored in this envelope.

Envelope templates

With this template you can make envelopes from colored cardboard

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By adding a ribbon, you will get envelopes for different occasions

: For greeting cards, money, invitations, etc.

Long envelope template

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Envelope template on A4 sheet

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You can decorate envelopes with colored lace or appliqués

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You can use beads and threads

to close the envelope:

Envelopes are sometimes decorated with various paper details

, made in various techniques: origami, quilling, scrapbooking, etc.

Read more about the quilling technique

you can read here.

More about paper flowers

you can read here.

Square envelope

Here we need scissors, glue, A4 paper and your skillful hands.

Step-by-step instruction:

• Cut out a square from colored or plain paper.
• Fold the first edge, going slightly into the middle of the envelope.
• Bend a small corner at the top horizontally.
• Do the same with the second and third edges so that they overlap each other.
• The top edge turns out like a lid, bend it towards all the others.
• Seal the center of the envelope with tape or glue.

Your beautiful square envelope is ready!

DIY money envelopes

What could be more banal than a gift in the form of money

, but sometimes this is the only thing that comes to mind.
To make your gift unique, you can place it in a handmade envelope
. The envelope can be beautifully decorated and signed like a postcard.

Envelopes for money are usually made of cardboard and have an elongated shape so that the bill can fit completely inside it

. You can draw the templates yourself or use ready-made templates:

Conversion from a regular postal envelope

If you don’t know how to make an envelope for money with your own hands, then you can take the most common template - a regular postal envelope. The finished base can be decorated and decorated in any way.

To prevent the product from bending, it can be glued to cardboard. Cut the glued folds with a blade and then unfold the envelope. You can attach fabric, ribbon, beads, pebbles to the paper base, and make any inscriptions.

If you show your imagination, you can create a real work of art from a postal product with original decor and design.

Envelopes for money (templates):

Here are some helpful ideas on how to make and decorate money envelopes that make great gifts.

along with their contents.

Feng Shui wish fulfillment in a red envelope

The technique is very simple and very effective.

Formulate your wish in the present tense without negation or “not”. For example: “I have a house overlooking the Mediterranean Sea!” Write it with a red pen on a small piece of paper, put it in an envelope and hide it away from prying eyes in the sector of your home that is responsible for the area of ​​life to which it relates. This will help you.

Bagua Grid

Friends, wish fulfillment with red feng shui envelopes

- a time-tested tradition. Perform this beautiful magical ritual and before you know it, what you want will come true!

May all your Dreams come true!

Alena Golovina

Red envelope for money

Red color carries powerful Yang energy and is considered the most successful color in the East. It is associated with youth, strength, activity, power and wealth. During the Qin Dynasty, coins were tied with a red thread, believing that they would ward off bad luck and evil spirits and bring health to their owner. Much later, the coins were replaced by red envelopes. That is why in China the tradition has been honored and passed on for centuries: to store and give money in red envelopes. Elderly Chinese believe that these envelopes attract happiness and longevity to the person giving them out.

Money in an envelope: original ideas

The envelope design allows you to place the money inside in different ways.

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Here are some ideas to help you make original envelopes. For example, you can use a postcard
, inside which you paste a small envelope with money.
You can write wishes on the card, and when you look inside, the recipient will find a cash gift
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Another option is to make the envelope also in the form of a postcard, and attach satin ribbons inside that will hold the bills

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Book of envelopes

. This original idea will appeal to those who would like to learn how to save money. You can make some simple envelopes and sign them, indicating the purpose for which the money is stored in them and the time when it can be spent.

Placing the red money envelope in the house correctly

A compass will help you find out where to put money in an envelope in a house or apartment. It is necessary to determine where the southeast is. This zone is responsible for material wealth. If you leave the talisman there, you will get the desired effect.

In the sector of wealth and prosperity, bills must be folded correctly: unfolded, straightened well. Under no circumstances should they be kept crumpled or out of order. The size of the envelope must correspond to the size of the monetary units.

The talisman should not be left in a visible place; it should be hidden. For example, a scarlet box with gold ornaments is suitable for this. Once a month it is good to report banknotes. This helps ensure that energy does not stagnate and there is a constant flow of money into the house.

A good money magnet would be a dollar bill.

Since scarlet envelopes are used for various purposes, when distributing them around the house it is worth using the Bagua grid. Talismans for fulfilling wishes, attracting mutual love into life, and improving health should be placed in the appropriate sectors.

Putting a souvenir in the correct sector of the house according to Feng Shui is only half the battle. It is important to tune in to the fulfillment of desires, to believe that a person deserves prosperity. Attitude is of great importance in attracting good luck in all aspects of life.

In Feng Shui symbolism, the color red denotes male yang energy and is the most powerful in energy. It is the color of wealth, power, activity and action.

In China, the birthplace of Feng Shui, red is considered a color that brings good luck and helps make dreams come true. The Chinese have been giving each other red Feng Shui envelopes

with wishes. Also in China, it is customary to store or give money in them.

Red envelopes are very suitable for realizing what you want. Buying them now is not particularly difficult - take a look at the nearest esoteric shop or online Feng Shui store.

You need to know that for each type of desire there is a separate envelope. Therefore, to perform yours, select something “suitable for the topic.”

All of them differ from each other by the hieroglyphs written on them in gold, meaning “Prosperity”, “Wealth”, “Great Luck” and others. The golden color is considered an energy activator.

For example, if your desire is related to love, the envelope “To find love” will suit you. If you dream of meeting your soulmate or want to increase the flow of love in your life, attract love to yourself, build strong relationships, then choose it.

If your dream is in the material sphere and is connected with money, for example, to buy a house, a dacha, a car, then choose “For Wealth”. You can also store money in it that you save to buy something. Remember that bills can only be inserted into it, not taken out.

We all have different desires and, of course, you can’t find a separate envelope for each. To do this, I advise you to purchase a universal one, which is called “For the fulfillment of desires.” It is suitable for achieving what you want on any topic from any area of ​​life.

The meaning and purpose of envelopes

The Feng Shui red envelope is a powerful talisman of material success and wealth, the most popular and effective talisman that attracts money.

Red envelope with money

It is believed that a red envelope with money will bring wealth, financial prosperity to its owner and help realize material dreams in the future.

A red cash envelope is the most favorable gift for family and friends on weddings, birthdays, New Years and family holidays.

By giving a red envelope with money, you thereby wish the person a prosperous life, prosperity, happiness and good health. Using Feng Shui envelopes, you will add originality to your gift and wish the person increased wealth and material well-being.

Remember that financial well-being also comes to those who give money to it! The more you give, the more luck comes back to you!

Letter envelope "Soldier's triangle"

During the war, soldiers communicated with their families through letters. They made an envelope from the same paper they wrote on.

This envelope resembles a triangle in appearance, which is why it has this name.

We will need: a sheet of A4 paper, a glue stick, scissors, a ruler, a pencil. For an approximate copy, you can use craft paper or paper with yellow tints.

Step-by-step instruction:

We connect the bottom side of the rectangle with the side. When folded, an isosceles triangle is obtained. We take the remaining strip and bend it to the base of the triangle, so we get the envelope tongue. We put the tongue of the envelope into the resulting pocket.

Your soldier's envelope is ready! Everything is extremely simple, because the soldiers did not have time for origami.

Unusual folding envelope with clasps

Here we only need a sheet of A4 paper and your skillful pens!

Instructions:

We bend the paper in half and unbend it back, thereby marking the central fold. We bend the upper left corner to the resulting central fold. We do the same with the lower right corner.

Fold the top right edge of the sheet. This edge should be in contact with the resulting triangles. We do the same with the lower left part.

Fold the bottom triangle towards the middle. We also fold the upper triangle towards the middle

We get a rectangle with two corners wrapped into small triangles. We insert the upper triangle into the extreme corner. We put the lower triangle into another adjacent corner.

We have an envelope with clasps that can be disassembled and reassembled any number of times.

Envelope printing

Our production carries out printing on ready-made envelopes in small and large runs. Offset and digital printing technologies are used for production.

To produce a layout for printing on envelopes, we offer the services of specialists from the Sunprint design studio. The layout we have developed will comply with all technical conditions for postal envelopes approved by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post", which guarantees the absence of difficulties when sending correspondence.

In addition to printing postal envelopes, we produce branded envelopes for any business needs: courier sending of documents, congratulations and invitations. Of course, envelopes for many purposes can be made with absolutely any images and types of finishes. Moreover, any shapes and materials can be used for such envelopes.

For the production of designer envelopes, we offer a range of designer papers and cardboards; various, most sophisticated, types of finishing: foil stamping, selective and structural varnishes, cutting, perforation and more. Various designs, bright design - the recipient of an envelope made by us will definitely be impressed.

Envelope box

To stop wondering how to make an envelope with your own hands, follow these instructions.

For such an envelope you need very thick paper or cardboard. It will be better if the material is double-sided.

Make a square out of cardboard. Fold the edges to mark all the existing diagonals.

Fold the corners to the middle so that a small square comes out. Place the square with the opening side facing up.

Fold the edge so that its end reaches the diagonal of the square. Fold the two back corners so that you get something similar to a heart.

Fold the side edges of the square under the front edge. Straighten and shape the envelope. For beauty, tie the envelope with a ribbon.

You can put jewelry in such an envelope and give it to your friend. It's also a good idea to send small photos in an original way.

Types and sizes of envelopes

There are a huge number of types and formats of envelopes, and the same number of problems that this wonderful type of printing product solves.

The range of envelopes is so wide, and the possibility of producing an individual format and type makes this range endless. But at the same time, there are norms and standards regulated by GOST 51506-99, ISO 269 and DIN 678

Envelope size

Envelopes are separated by flap position:

• Envelope - the flap is placed on the long side;
• Bag - the valve is on the short side.

There are also differences in the form of the valve itself:

• Straight valve - rectangular, short valve;
• Triangle flap - an envelope with a large triangular flap;
• The machine is a valve in the form of a short triangle, with semicircular edges. Used for automatic packaging of items on envelope lines.

Envelope spills on the adhesive layer on the flap:

• Dextrin adhesive layer - glue placed on the inside of the flap, which must be soaked to seal the envelope;
• Tear-Off Silicone Tape - Placed on the inside of the flap, removing the protective tape exposes the silicone adhesive layer to seal the envelope.

In addition to the differences described above, envelopes have windows - cutouts in envelopes made of transparent polyethylene on the front side and with a seal on the inner surface of the envelope, protecting the contents of the envelope from being seen through.

When producing custom envelopes, any size, material and characteristics of envelopes are acceptable.

Postal envelopes

Cardboard bags

Designer envelopes

Seven troubles - a red envelope!

To test the effect of red envelopes on yourself, you don’t have to live in China - today they, like many other Feng Shui talismans, are used in different countries.

There are several types of such envelopes; they have different symbols written on them and are intended for different purposes.

If you want your wallet to always be full, keep money for everyday expenses in an envelope with the hieroglyph “Prosperity”. If you need to accumulate a certain amount, put the money in an envelope with the hieroglyph “Wealth”, writing on it how much money you need (don’t be modest, because you won’t be able to get more than you wrote). Keep someone else’s money or money intended for a gift in an envelope with the inscription “Big Luck” or “Fu Lu Xi” - when you give it away, you will receive even more! And finally, if you need to pay someone for work done or repay a debt, put the money prepared for this in an envelope with the hieroglyph “Justice”, rest assured: it will come back to you!