Silhouette Tutorial: Design a Custom Envelope
I was asked how to design a 4×6″ envelope in Studio without having to purchase an envelope file from the online store. I love a challenge and had some time, so I made this video tutorial to share with you. You can use these techniques to create a flat envelope for any size of card; just make your beginning rectangle the size of your card.
This is how it turned out when I cut it from a piece of lightweight 8.5″x11″ pattern paper.
If you have any questions, please let me know!
Great tutorial Kelly —– thank you for doing this! Any thoughts on making 6 x6 envies? If it can be done with one sheet of 12 x 12 paper, turning the pattern is probably the key as it is here.
I'd have to try it, but you can probably make narrow side flaps and longer top and bottom flaps to compensate and still cover that area in front. If you make them more rectangular instead of triangular it should work and fit on a 12×12 page.
I tried making a 6×6 envelope this morning, and its pretty hard to fit on to a 12×12 mat. The problem is the base square is 6.25", and then the top and bottom flaps have to overlap slightly, making their total added length a minimum of 6.5". That makes the total length of the envelope nearly 13" long and reasonably 7-8" wide. You may be able to do it in the end, but it might be easier to resize the card itself to 5" to make it all fit better.
Thank you for this tutorial. I was trying to figure out how to do this the other day.
Great job on the video. I can't wait to try out what I learned. Thanks so much for doing this.
Thank you! This will for sure come in handy.
I really appreciate your way of designing and I truly like to reading your post. Thank you so much for taking the time to share such a nice information.
This was such a great tutorial. I loathe making envelopes… this should make it so much better ๐
Thanks for this tutorial. I was able to quickly make a custom envelope to go with a card that I made.
I know that you did this tutorial long time ago but I wanted to tell you really thanks! I am preparing my xmas postcards and this was really helpful for make the envelopes!
I'm so glad it was helpful. Thanks for letting me know! ๐
Thank you for sharing your knowldge. I spent so much time trying different ways of achieving this and here you make it so clear. ๐
I’m happy I could help,Gladys!
This was such an amazing tutorial. You are very advanced which I hope to be at some point. The title of your site defiantly applies to me. I am always trying to find time to create! Thank you for sharing such a great video. When I searched in Google I wasn’t confident I was going to find anything but this is awesome!!!
Thanks for saying so, Mary. ๐ I hope you find lots of helpful things here so you can get those advanced skills!