How to make an envelope for a disk from A4 sheet?

With the hustle and bustle of today's life, very often we can miss important trifles. So, for example, if you need to send a beautiful postcard or make a cash gift, it turns out that we forgot to buy an envelope. But from any situation you can always find a way out. In this case, a couple of ways are useful, which describe how to make an envelope for a disk from sheet A4 or an envelope for money.

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How to make an envelope for a disk from A4 sheet?

For sure, we all faced the situation when it is necessary to find an envelope for a CD.And if the original envelope is lost, there is no problem: you can use a regular A4 sheet.

To fold the envelope for the disc, follow these instructions:

1. Fold the paper sheet in half across the long side.
2. Expand the fold - this marking will be the middle of the product.
3. One short side folded with a triangle so that its sides can converge in the middle.
4. Now on both sides, bend 4 cm inside.
5. Fold the workpiece along the intended fold.
6. Fold the upper edge inward to the level of the base of the triangle and wrap it inward.
7. Fold the triangle with the vertex down.

Envelope for the disk is ready!

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Envelope for disc in quilling technique

In order to make an envelope of paper for a disc, you will need:

1. Two-sided colored paper.
2. File.
3. Cardboard.
4. Ruler( simple and with circles).
5. Simple and curly scissors.
6. Simple pencil.
7. Adhesive PVA.
8. Knife.
9. Spoke. Toothpick to twist the paper.
10. Beads.

Work order:

1. To make an envelope of paper for a disc, first cut out a template for the future envelope.
2. Take the cardboard from which the envelope will be made. Place the template on the cardboard and circle.
3. Cut out with simple scissors, but one edge needs to go through figured scissors for beauty.
4. After the base of the envelope has been cut out, it is necessary to "bend" the folds so that they look beautiful from the outside and bend easily. You can use a spoke for this purpose.
5. Next, bend the product and continue working.
6. From the side of the pocket where the disc will fit, it is necessary to mark the slot in the middle. Cut with a knife. Lubricate with PVA glue and glue the "wings".The envelope is ready!
7. Now you need to decorate it. From orange and blue paper, cut strips 5 mm wide, 30 cm long. Glue them together one at a time. The length of each strip should be 60 cm.
8. Insert the tip of the strip into the slot of the toothpick and start winding, making the rotation, starting with a blue color. It is necessary that the coils of paper fit tightly to each other. After reaching the end, put a circle of a ruler with a diameter of 12 mm, remove the toothpicks, let the spiral dissolve. Give the roll a drop shape.
9. For the middle of the flower, take the yellow stripes 30 cm long and 10 mm wide. Cut the strip of noodles. If it is difficult for you to cut evenly, you can draw a line in the middle with a pencil.
10. Twist the tight roll, fix it at the end with glue. Carefully unbend.
11. Make a flower out of the resulting details. Such flowers make 5 pieces.
12. Glue them on the envelope.

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Gift envelope number 1

Money bills as a gift for the holiday - this is probably not the most ethical souvenir and, nevertheless, very popular. In order to brighten up some discrepancy with etiquette, it is customary to donate money in an envelope. And in this case, you can not limit your imagination when choosing the form of festive packaging, using the standard A4 sheet.

Instruction:

1. Cut a piece of sheet so that a square is obtained.
2. Fold the sheet in two diagonals and straighten the folds.
3. One of the corners bend in towards the center.
4. Turn the workpiece along the center line of the fold.
5. See lateral corners to the middle of the base of the triangle.
6. The upper corner, which turned out to be in the middle, bend in the opposite direction and form a diamond from it.
7. Fold the upper triangle along the base line so that the top is in the diamond.

The envelope is ready!

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Gift envelope No. 2

There is a somewhat complicated but more refined option to make an envelope from A4 sheet for money. To do this, follow these instructions:

1. Fold the A4 sheet in half along the long side, straighten it.
2. Now fold the top right corner of the triangle to the center of the fold.
3. Repeat the previous step for the lower left corner.
4. Fold the side of the figure so that its edge coincides with the side of the right triangle. Spread out the protruding lower edge of the corner.
5. Repeat the previous step on the left side.
6. Now again bend the corner with a triangle to the level of the bottom crease - fill the corner under it.
7. Repeat the same operation on the left.

A beautiful envelope is ready!

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Envelope with a jumper

An elegantly closed envelope with a jumper can be made of bright wrapping paper. However, the format for this model is still better to take A4.

Instruction:

1. Bend the A4 sheet across the long side.
2. Bend the top edge outward so that it converges from the bend line.
3. Re-bend the resulting rectangle in half and out.
4. Straighten the last bend, make a crease along the line of its middle.
5. Bend the bottom corners of the workpiece slightly.
6. Move the sides of the figure along the triangle boundaries.
7. Expand all the folds, fold the sheet along the right fold in the middle.
8. Bend outside and inside the folds of rectangles of 2-4 steps.
9. Flatten the lower triangle over the folds so that the extreme sides remain in the original position, and the inner sides can be folded inward.
10. Make a bend in the center of the triangle of the entire sidewall inward.
11. Fill the lower corners inwards.
12. Fold the top of the tab and bend the bottom of the resulting triangle.
13. Hide the tab for the jumper in the center.

The envelope is ready!

As you have probably already realized, making an envelope for a disk from A4 is not at all difficult. Stock up with the necessary materials, put a little imagination, and you will get a wonderful hand-crafted article.