Weddingbee Blog

Despite my occasional feelings of burnout, I am still crazy enough to take on tasks like this. I just can’t help myself! A few weeks ago, I found this really great paper at JoAnn Fabrics and a few seconds later I found a green satin ribbon that matched it exactly. I wanted to line our invitation envelopes and use ribbon as a “belly band” for the invitations themselves, so I bought all of it on the spot. Which now means that now, I have the lovely tasks of making liners for every single one of our inner envelopes! The good news is, I cut out a template before the envelopes made their way to the calligrapher so that they can be cut and ready to go by the time they’re all returned to me. Its not nearly as hard as I suspected, but I documented the process for anyone else that might need it!

It’s sometimes easier to pull the envelope apart, but I tried to conserve my envelopes, so I measured one that was still intact. I used a regular manila envelope to create the template, and started by cutting it so that it was 1/8 of an inch shorter than the envelope on each side:
For the top portion, I cut the manila envelope so that it was about 1/4 of an inch from the top point of the envelope. Then I put the entire square into the envelope itself:
Then I put a ruler at the top of the point and made a (clearly not so straight) line onto the template so that I had a mark for the uppermost point:

I took a ruler and made a line from the crease of the envelope to the mark I had just made for the uppermost center point:
I made those lines on either side and then cut off the corners…and there’s my template! Honestly, making the template perfect took me the longest time. From here on out was pretty straightforward.

I put the template on my paper and traced away. If you use a corner of the paper you only have to make three quick lines:

I cut the liner out along the lines I had just made:

And inserted into the envelope!

Now I just needed to get a nice crease so that it all folded together nicely. So I folded the envelope flap down and used a bone folder along the edge to make a crease:

Then took a tape roller (these things save a ton of time) and put tape on each of the edges:
Pressed it into the envelope flap, and voila! Once the template is finished it takes just a few minutes to make the actual liner. I traced a bunch of them at once, and then cut about 25 of them in under a half an hour.

Now I can hardly wait to get our envelopes back from the calligrapher!

Are you lining your own envelopes? Anyone else planning on using the long weekend over the 4th to knock out some crazy wedding tasks?