25 Days of Paper 2016, Day 15

This is a repeat from last year since the July project in the Twelve Months of Paper calendar (the Zig Zag Book) has already been covered during the blog marathon.
These envelopes are simple and fun to make,  and they’ll put to good use any wrapping and/or origami papers you have laying around. ‘Tis the season to write letters! This particular paper is an Italian printed paper from GPC Papers.
For this project you will need:

• A 9″ x 9″ square of paper (but feel free to try various sizes)
• Bone Folder: optional
• Ruler: optional

Step 1: Fold the square of paper in half diagonally with the printed design on the outside.

Step 2: Fold the top flap of the triangle down to the center point on the folded edge as shown.

Step 3: You can guess at this step or measure, but basically you need to fold each side corner of the triangle in towards the center at slightly less than one third of the dimension of the bottom edge, keeping the bottom edges aligned. Fold the right flap down first, with the left flap on top (you can also do this vice versa).

Step 4: You do not need a ruler and bone folder for this step; it just depends on how precise you like to be. Either fold back that top left-hand flap in the center, or score the mini-triangle you see created to the right of the ruler in the photo above and then fold it back towards the left along the crease.

Step 5: Now create a squash fold (you can look this up if you need more visuals). Open up that little triangle that you just folded back and press the paper down to create a small diamond-shaped pocket and squash it down flat.

Step 6: Fold the top flap of your envelope down, tuck it into the diamond-shaped pocket and crease that last fold, forming your envelope.
NOTE: This particular envelope is too small to mail by itself (the post office has size restrictions). You can scale this up if you’d like to actually mail your envelopes!