Kraftmas Day 16 - DIY Christmas Cards (Part III)

Welcome back for the conclusion of DIY Christmas cards! Today I am going to show you how to make your own envelopes for all of those holiday greeting cards that you made.

What you need:
Construction paper (size 10x12")
Paint, ink and stamps for decorating

First, lay the paper lengthwise on your work surface. Place the card in the center lengthwise, but on the bottom 1/3 of the width of the paper.

Next, fold the bottom of the paper over the bottom of the card. The folded part should be about 1" in width. 

Then, fold the sides of the paper over the card, and then the top so that you've made the dimensions of your card. 

The next part is a little tricky. Unfold the top part. With a pencil or pen, draw diagonal lines from the top corners of the card to make a center point as you see below. Make sure that the point at which your two lines meet is not any lower than the top piece that you initially folded over the card, since this is the top of the envelope. 

Cut away the excess paper along the line that you drew on either side. Also cut along the vertical folded line connecting the excess paper to the top of the envelope (see below)

Using double-sided tape, tack the bottom fold of the envelope to the side segments. Now, for the top of the envelope, you can either keep the shape as a rectangle as you see here...

OR you can cut the sides of the rectangle so that the top is a triangle as you see here

Now these seem a little boring! So let's decorate the inside of the top of the envelope. A couple of ways to do this are:

1. Use a gel pen to write some holiday phrases. Here I wrote "Merry Christmas!"

2. Stamp the inside

3. Paint stripes

Finally, you can make the front of the envelope pretty. I used a gold gel pen to make a border around the envelope, and then stamped a pine cone in the bottom left corner. 

And here you have it! All of your cute DIY cards ready for sending