How to make an envelope from an A4 sheet: diagrams, photos, videos

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

What seemingly originalenvelopes in stores, they are not endowed with the most important - the soul. How do you want sometimes, so that a person gave you a nice note or gift in an envelope, or sent a letter from another part of the world. How would it feel that this is not a soulless purchase envelope, but made by the hands of a person for whom you mean a lot.

In fact, there is nothing difficult in this -just take a sheet of A4 and show a little imagination. Whoever said anything, and gifts made with their own hands, are very valuable. If you think that you do not have enough skills and imagination, we advise you to drop these thoughts away. It's not for nothing that they say: your eyes are afraid - and your hands are doing it. Well, we decided to offer you to make an envelope from a sheet of paper A4 with your own hands. In addition, we will show master classes on how to make an envelope from A4 paper for any holiday, event and so on. In the development of information you will be assisted by a step-by-step instruction in which all actions with a piece of A4 paper are visually represented.

Envelope Templates

To begin with, in order to make it easier for you, we will present various envelope templates that can be easily executed with only scissors, 1-2 sheets of A4 paper and glue.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Master classes on making an envelope from A4 sheet

Master classes are more than just schemes. This is already a visual representation of what can be done with a sheet of A4 paper in real life. In addition, the master classes will tell you how to decorate the resulting envelope in an original way.

In order to cover all spheres, we decided to present master classes on the implementation of different types of envelopes from A4 paper, depending on their purpose.

So, let's get started!

Envelope for money from paper

One of the most important uses of the envelope -as a presentation to a friend, a loved one or even a colleague. In such envelopes, we usually put money, accompanying the gift with fiery speech. It would not be desirable, that the self-made envelope from paper А4 was lost among others. Let's try to make it the most interesting.

What do we need? We will need:

scissors;

ruler;

2 sheets of A4 paper (we suggest you take one plain sheet of paper, the other with contrasting drawings);

glue;

a pair of satin ribbons (one will be upper and one lower).

We decided to show a little creativity and took as a basis the wallpaper, which remained after a long repair. For this reason, the paper will appear to you different in its texture.

Step 1: A piece of paper 20x40 was taken for the base. From this rectangle we will continue to create.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 2: Bend the sheet of paper in half inwards as shown in the photo above. Now bend the other edges of the product also to the center.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 3: Expand the work that has just been done. Bend the sides of the corner, as shown in the photo.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 4: Now you need to turn the sheet back. The turn of a bright paper has come. Stick a small piece of colorful paper into the base of the envelope.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 5: Hide the remaining bright paper inward to the usual envelope sheet. It should be something like this.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 6: Now take the ribbon prepared in advance and glue it on the center of the envelope, only on the reverse side.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 7: We took 2 tapes - white wide and thin blue. Now we put a thin ribbon on top of white to give the brightness of the envelope.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 8: Tie a beautiful bow in the center of the envelope from the front side of it. Do not forget to process the cut off parts of the tapes. For this you can use an ordinary lighter or matches.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Mailing envelope with own hands

For the purpose of training the creation of the most ordinary white envelope from paper to send a letter we will need only:

sheet of white paper A4;

scissors;

as well as double-sided adhesive paper or ordinary glue.

Step 1: Fold the sheet of paper shown in the photo(triangle to the center). You should get a square with equal sides. The part of the paper that is outside the square will need to be trimmed.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 2: Now take the scissors and cut off the unnecessary part of the A4 sheet.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 3: Put the resulting figure in such a way that before you was not so much a square as a diamond. Try gently bending the right and left corners of the diamond to make them touch the center.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 4: Bend the intended sides.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 5: Pull the bottom corner and combine the three corners in the center of the shape. Almost everything is ready. Corner, which is below, should be slightly higher than the lateral corners. The upper part of the product is not touched.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 6: Fold the corner of the bottom side into the inside of the pocket. Thus, you ensure the safety of what you wrote there.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 7: Bend the upper part. All is ready! You can now attach a letter and fix the "cover" of the envelope to a double-sided adhesive tape or with a conventional drop of glue.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Gift envelope

In this master class we have approached more seriously to preparing a gift envelope. The whole concept is based on the scrapbooking motives, which fit perfectly in this style.

What do we need?

basis - scheme;

cardboard sheet of paper;

2 types of colored paper and a common sheet of paper A4;

satin ribbon;

adhesive, scissors, ruler;

various small details: beads, butterflies for decoration;

and the most amazing tool is a sewing machine.

Step 1: Taking as a basis one of the schemes presented above, we will make here such a cutting from cardboard.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 2: Prepare two strips of colored paper, commensurate with the cardboard sheet. However, do not forget to remove the height a little, so that the sheets neatly enter the envelope.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 3: Next, turn to the middle of the envelope. Then we need another color paper. We cut out similar rectangles, only lower in height than the previous ones.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 4: On the edges of these leaves we make a frame from the prepared ruches.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 5: We paste the cut out colored strips, as in the photo.

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands

Step 6: We paste the paper on the cardboard (on the outside of our craft). Then we take out the sewing machine and go around the edges with a white thread (neatly on the top line, not missing the corners).

Envelope of paper A4 with your own hands