Wedding envelope for money: how to choose or do it yourself?

No wedding is complete without gifts. Someone will present furniture sets, set, equipment for the house, and someone - money, so that the young people will dispose of them at their discretion. You can hand a “rustling” gift in a beautiful printed wedding envelope or make such an envelope for wedding money with your own hands.

The appearance of the product should correspond to the holiday: be pompous, with lace and satin details, beads, volumetric hearts and pigeons, contain the inscriptions “Happiness”, “Love and mutual understanding”, “Happy Wedding”, comic tips on how to manage the amount ( for example, “Make a long-held dream come true”, “Pass it to my daughter and son”) and others.

The original envelope handmade under the force to make everyone. The main thing is to have a little diligence and time. Such an unusual gift will not be ignored by the newlyweds and guests of the holiday. You can decorate the product at your discretion by borrowing interesting author ideas on one of the thematic forums or inventing something of your own. You can put the names of young people or just initials enclosed in hearts on your own product, and they will know for sure that you made this festive accessory exclusively for their celebration.

The edges of the handmade envelope can be made not straight, but wavy, add voluminous decorations to the front side - this will add romance to the product. In the color design should be guided by the pastel colors: pink, pale blue, sand, white.

Very beautiful and unusual look products in the scrapbooking technique. The essence of the method is cutting a three-dimensional pattern from thick cardboard.

To master this technique is easy. You can watch several workshops on the Internet, practice and start creating a wedding envelope.

You will need:

• pattern;
• scissors;
• decorative elements;
• pieces of cloth;
• ruler;
• glue;
• pencil.

First you need to carefully calculate the size of the envelope, make a pattern, outline the location of the hole (standard or side), think about the variant of the lock and the relief of the sides of the envelope.

Using the pattern to cut a similar layout of white or colored cardboard. It is better that the material is not too dense, but also not “liquid”, so that the form holds well, but it was not overly difficult to bend along the marked lines. Glue the edges of the envelope with Moment glue.

For the decor, you can choose whatever you see fit and find in the shop for needlework: beads, satin ribbons, glitter paper, colorless glue, beads, rhinestones. On the front side of the envelope you can draw wedding rings, and make all the inscriptions in ink with underlining with monograms.Rich decor is ideal for a festive event, and the envelope will look very stylish and elegant.

Decorations that you will perform in the scrapbooking technique should be well thought out beforehand. This concerns the location of all elements and their appearance. Most often for the design of wedding envelopes floral motifs, lace ornament and short congratulatory inscriptions are used (“Congratulations”, “Happy Wedding Day”, “Council and Love”, “Happiness”). By the way, flowers can be made not only of cardboard, but also of corrugated paper. Such a “trembling” material will make the flowers almost alive. To create them, it is necessary to roll a triangular piece of corrugated paper into a cone, and to turn off the edges, imitating flower petals. For fixing, it is enough to use 1–2 drops of PVA or “Moment” glue. It is advisable to make several identical colors in one color (white or red) and fix them on the envelope. You can add “flower glade” with lace, sparkles and decorative pebbles.

Inside the envelope, you can also put a mini-card (purchased or also made yourself) with a brief poetic greeting text. Signature giver is welcome. It can be applied with ink using a stencil and decorated with golden glitter.

You will learn how to make a beautiful wedding envelope for money by watching the following video.

Today it is very fashionable to hold weddings in Provence style. Wedding envelope can also be made in accordance with the theme of the celebration.

Style features:

• pastel shades (cream, purple, white, light blue, pale green);
• flower patterns;
• lace elements;
• inscriptions with monograms and curls;
• sprig of lavender.

The envelope made as described above is taken as the base. Lace is attached to the front of the product. The envelope is tied with twine, and dried lavender is fastened in place for the traditional bow.

If there is very little time for making an envelope, you can buy a floral print and fully decorate the cardboard surface. The task can still be simplified if you make an envelope not from ordinary cardboard, but immediately from a design one. Original will look cardboard with a geometric pattern. It will not require additional decorations - just a brief congratulatory inscription will suffice. If desired, you can decorate the upper opening of the envelope with flowers and beads. For fixing the elements it is recommended to use a glue gun.

A money envelope for a wedding with a butterfly will look very tender. The envelope is made as described above from a design cardboard. It will take another sheet of cardboard to wrap an envelope. In the center of the cardboard “wrappers” you need to draw a rather large butterfly (the size can vary from 5 to 8 centimeters). Inside along the wings also make outlines. First, cut out the figures on the outer contours, and then with a sharp stationery knife on the inside. The result is an envelope with a voluminous bow tie. On both sides of the butterfly, cut two wide strips (about 2 cm wide) in a “wrap” cardboard box, glue them together. The butterfly can be decorated with one or more beads to match.

Do-it-yourself can make the original postal envelope. To do this, take a medium density cardboard. One side of the future envelope is cut from it. A cardboard pattern is applied to decorative paper (for example, metallic or for decoupage), outlined along the contour and cut out. The cut out part is inserted into the mail envelope, fixing with glue-pencil. On the front side of the envelope can be decorated in any way you like.

For those who really want to invest a piece of themselves in the creation of a wedding celebration, but does not like creative work, we can recommend to make a simple wedding envelope. The basis is taken already prepared, purchased in advance envelope. A proportionate piece of decorative paper is glued to the front side (it can even be wallpaper) or an abstract geometric pattern is applied using transparent glue and glitter. On top is attached any congratulatory inscription previously printed on the printer: “Sea of ​​Love”, “Happy Wedding Day”, “Happiness to the Young” or others. The envelope is decorated with beads in the color of decorative paper and floral elements.

To create an unusual wedding envelope It is necessary to consider recommendations from professionals.

1. For the manufacture of an envelope, it is better to choose paper and cardboard of light colors.
2. Patterns can be applied to the surface of the product with ink, paint or helium paste.
3. The puncher can make figures of angels, butterflies, flowers and others. Emboss them from decorative paper. They are fixed on the front of the product with a glue gun in any order.
4. To the upper opening part of the envelope acquired the original form, you need to use decorative scissors with a wavy edge or border.
5. Lace patterns are also obtained through the use of designer scissors.
6. For the decoration of the front of the envelope, you can use photos of young people, their relatives and friends. It is important that the photos are printed on regular, not on photo paper. The latter will make it difficult to decorate photos.