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- Making your own envelopes is really actually very easy

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and it really allows you to play with color

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and pattern and customize your envelope

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so it makes that note that you send

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even that more special.

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It's also a really good way to upcycle things

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like catalogs and magazines and make some really

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funky, fashionable envelopes.

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And once you've created your template,

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they're actually really easy to just whip out.

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To make your envelopes you're going to need

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some text weight paper, so this is a medium weight,

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and I like to use some decorative paper for a liner.

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You also need just some scratch paper

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because we're going to be gluing.

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I like to make my templates using

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existing envelopes that I like the shape of,

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and then we'll make the actual template out of

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any kind of lightweight cardboard,

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something like a recycled cereal box

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or cracker box is ideal.

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You also need a glue stick, a ruler,

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and you can use a pencil or a bone folder

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for marking your edges and making your folds,

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you could also use the back of a butter knife

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if you need it.

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And last you'll need some scissors.

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Every envelope has its own lapel shape.

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That's what this flap is called,

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its own lapel shape, so that's specific

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to the company that makes the envelopes.

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I just happen to like these ones

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so I'm going to make my templates based on that.

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There'll be standard mailing sizes

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for whatever country you live in.

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In the United States the smallest mailable size

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is a four bar envelope.

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So you want to make sure that your envelope

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isn't any smaller if you're gonna mail it.

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But of course you can make a tiny little envelope

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for a gift enclosure or to put on a package.

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We'll just take any one of our envelopes

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that we want to create a template for

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and carefully open it up.

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You want to tear them open and try to keep

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all of the flaps intact, 'cause that's what we're gonna use

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to actually create the shape of our template.

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If we rip it that doesn't matter.

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So this is what we're gonna use to make our template.

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There are already folds here in the cracker box,

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I'm just going to ignore those

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and we're gonna make our template

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and just know that those aren't the folds for our template.

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Just lay it somewhere on your chipboard or cardboard,

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and you're just gonna trace the outline

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using a pencil.

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It's a very thin piece of paper so if you draw up

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onto the envelope that's okay.

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I'm just holding it down where it's prone to pop up.

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And then I like to make little notches just at the corner

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so I remember that I need to actually draw

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some fold lines there.

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So those are my notches.

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I wanna go ahead and show where

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those fold marks are gonna be,

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before I cut this out.

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So it's mostly from corner to corner,

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this is going to be pretty standard.

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And you can take your bone folder

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and just with the tip make a score mark there.

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This is so that your template folds easily.

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You don't have to do this, you could avoid those score marks

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because you're not actually making this into an envelope,

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but I like to do it, it's a nice visual reference

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then I don't forget a step when I'm actually

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making my envelope.

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And I'm just going way beyond,

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starting above and going way beyond there,

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just so I get a nice, clean score.

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We're gonna carefully cut this one out,

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because this is our template

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and we really want to maintain that outer shape

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and keep that consistent and clean.

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This is my lapel up here I might just want to make sure

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that that edge looks good.

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I have kind of a wonky pencil mark here

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so I can also turn it over and just make sure

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the silhouette looks right, which it does.

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If you're gonna be highly confused

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by that extra score mark, you can also just

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kind of make a note that that's not important,

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that's not part of our envelope,

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that's just where the cracker box was.

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And then if you want you can actually fold these,

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just to give you a sense of how this envelope

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is going to come together.

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If you wanted to make this into a mailer

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you certainly could, you would just glue it up

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like you would an envelope

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and then this would actually be the mailer,

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it would be nice and sturdy,

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but we're actually going to use this as our template.

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So once you've cut that out,

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you can go to your text weight.

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This size fits on an 8.5 x 11 just really nicely.

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And we're gonna do the same thing.

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Trace it, the reason we make this template

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is because this is thicker and it's much easier to trace.

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It's also gonna last us a much longer time.

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If we just took one opened envelope

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and tried tracing it and making multiples from it

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eventually we would really distort those perfect edges.

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But with this card stock or cardboard,

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it's gonna stay nice and crisp and last us a long time.

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If you need to put those little marks where you know

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you have to score at the corners you can with your pencil.

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But you don't have to.

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We're gonna make those score marks from corner to corner,

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just like we did with our cardboard template.

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And again you're gonna cut this out.

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And you can cut multiples at once,

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but you'll have to score them individually.

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You do want to make sure that you,

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especially on the lapel or the flap of the envelope,

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that you're really paying attention to that cut,

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so that you can get that really nice

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curved shape on the flap.

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And that looks good.

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We're going to go back to our original envelope

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and see where it comes together,

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how it's folded and how it's glued.

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You can see that the side flaps come in first

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and then the bottom flap comes up.

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And if you'll notice, right here,

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you're not gonna put glue, because if you did,

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it would glue to the inside of the envelope

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and then you wouldn't be able to get a card in here

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so we just want to make sure that we

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have glue here and here.

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And you can easily just use a glue stick.

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You want to make sure that you've got your lapel up,

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this is the top of your envelope.

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You're gonna be working on some scratch paper

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and you're gonna go ahead and fold in the side flaps,

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you can use your bone folder if you like

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to help you with those creases.

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The bottom flap is going to come up like this.

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Hold on one sec.

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One that's off just a bit.

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Okay, your bottom is going to come up like this,

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and we're going to be applying glue

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to the inside right here.

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You can just use a glue stick for this,

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you don't have to use wet glue.

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I'm gonna avoid that middle section,

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because that would be glued

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to the inside of my envelope.

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Get down into the corners there.

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I'm just going to place this up.

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Press, and then you have this nice, tidy envelope,

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you put a stamp on it and pop it in the mail.

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And I made a few others here in different sizes.

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Using a business envelope or a number 10,

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and that little baby enclosure we talked about.

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So you can make a myriad of envelopes.

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You can use magazines and upcycled catalogs

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and things to make really cool envelopes.

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Now if you want to add a liner,

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which is a way to add a pop of color

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or a little bit of pattern in an envelope

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when someone opens it, I'm gonna show you how to do that

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with the template we just made.

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Your liner is gonna come, if you look at this guy,

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this has a different shaped lapel,

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so your liners are gonna be particular

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to the shape of your envelope.

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You want to mimic the shape here,

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so that it matches the lapel,

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you just want to drop it down about a

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quarter to a half of an inch.

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And if I open this up, you can see that it just comes down,

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it doesn't cover the inside left and right

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or this bottom flap, it just tucks into

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that main portion of the envelope.

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So we can go back to our template.

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This is our top.

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I'm gonna use a decorative paper here,

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I'm actually just going to flip it over

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so I can't see my pencil marks.

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And I'm gonna draw my lapel shape,

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so that's my lapel shape,

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and then I'm gonna come down about a half of an inch

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and this is actually where my liner will start.

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And then you just need to draw down,

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straight down, you can use your ruler

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or you can eyeball it.

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Usually only need to draw down about an inch or two.

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You don't even have to go to the bottom of the envelope.

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So you're making a little house shape,

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it's what it looks like.

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So I can just go something like that.

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Cut this guy out.

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You can get more than one out of a sheet.

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Carefully around that corner to retain the shape.

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Again we're gonna use our glue stick,

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working on the wrong side of the pattern paper.

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And you don't have to glue the whole thing,

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you can actually just glue the edges,

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which is pretty cool.

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If you do glue the whole thing you can potentially

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get it stuck in the envelope before you have it

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in the right spot.

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I'm just gonna slip this in.

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You can see the corners, this little tiny corner here,

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and where that's gonna go.

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Place it inside and press it down.

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You can score this if you're working with

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a thicker pattern paper, you may want to just score

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that line where it's gonna fold.

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And then you've got a sweet little envelope

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with a printed liner.