How to Make a Cute Origami Envelope

Hi, in this video I'm going to show you how to make your own origami envelopes

Really easy to do, you don't need any glue, any tape, it's just all about the folding

There's a little cute ones you could use or you can make them full size and put whatever you like in them

Great for invitations. I'm Christine of Christine's crafts and this channel is dedicated to crafting on a budget

So all you need is a square of paper. This is a square that's 12 inches by 12 inches and it's quite thick scrapbook

paper but you can use copy of paper, smaller bits of origami paper, whatever you like

Whatever you use, it must be a square and the first thing you do is fold it in half, taking

one corner to the other, forming a triangle and make sure as you go along that you make all

your creases nice and flat. So once you've done that, you're going to take just the top

surface and fold that point down to the bottom of your triangle and then again get a nice

crisp crease and then the only bit of measuring required is to measure the bottom of your

triangle just measure all the way from one end to the other and then you want to

mark a third of the way along so however long it is divide that number by three

and then mark that far in from the end. You see I've made my little pencil mark there

Then what you're going to do is take the point from the other side

and fold it over exactly to that mark. Again, make sure you get a good fold

Start to see a little bit of an envelope shape appearing now. And then once that down and you happy you going to take the point from the other side of the triangle and fold that over till it reaches the other side

And now you have got a basic envelope, but we're going to form the little diamond that allows you to close it

it. So the last bit that you took you're going to fold it back on itself right to that

other edge. Get a good fold and then you're going to bring it back and you're going

to open that little pocket up, poke your finger right in so it opens at the bottom

and then flatten it to form a nice diamond on the front. You can see that that's where

the top of your envelope is going to come over and fasten. So as you can see, sometimes it doesn't want to lie flat

You may need to just keep it under a book overnight just to flatten it all down

But you can see the top of the envelope there and that's where you're going to fold

And bring the flap of your envelope down. And then it should line up perfectly to sit nicely in your diamond to hold it closed

and you'll see I'm making the whole table move everything's moving here because I'm making sure I've got a really good fold

But that's it. You've completed your envelope. You can make as many as you like

You can see it only takes a couple of minutes to make one. So you can make them for all your party or wedding invitations

So that's a big one made with a 12 inch square bit of scrapbook paper

And I've got some small ones here I'm made with some six inch square origami paper

So good luck with your envelopes. Thank you for watching and I hope you've enjoyed it

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