Custom Made Envelope for Stand Up Graduation Card

On April 27, 2021 for my "Tuesdays At Two" FB Live I shared a graduation fun fold card that I called "Head & Shoulders Above the Rest" because it reminds me of a graduate student in their cap and gown, looking down and seeing the stripes on their gown and the back of their graduation cap, complete with tassel.  Today I created a custom envelope for this card with a liner, using the Envelope Punch Board.

Here's a link to card video. Unfortunately the card will not fit into an A2 size envelope, our standard card size.  So this morning I did an impromptu FB Live "au naturel", so very spur of the moment.  LOL but I was so excited to share this.  But unfortunately the sound was really muted so I redid the video with my little camcorder. Here's the video from YouTube.  If it does not show up on your mobile device click this link.

Here is the envelope and card.  

To make it I used my Envelope Punch Board, which Stampin' Up!© no longer sells. I also used a calculator for this board that I had on my phone.  I initially found on Pinterest, created by Sylvie L.  I tried to copy the link here for you but it didn't work.  There are several others out there. I asked it for the sizes of a 5" x 5" card 1/4" thick.  There are also measurements for other size items on the Envelope Punch Board itself.  To be honest I totally forgot to look there!  LOL

The calculator stated to use a 8 5/8" x 8 5/8" piece of cardstock.  Since I didn't have any on hand larger than 8 1/2" in the weight and color I wanted, I decided to use regular cardstock that you can get at Walmart, (since it is lighter weight than our Basic White but thicker than copy paper.)  As luck would have it, that worked out.

Start with the first measurement of 4 3/8" on the Envelope Punch Board. Then follow the directions of the board. You can see how this is done in the video. 

After putting together the first one (purely by luck, which I will explain later) I decided to stencil a graduation cap on it.  I had some die cuts left over from something I did previously and used it for my stencil.  I used the new blender brushes but unfortunately I ended up getting some smear marks on the envelope.  So what do we do when we mess up?  We turn it over and start again, but in order to do that I decided to make a liner for the envelope.

Once you have the envelope punched and scored you can make the liner.  I used a piece of DSP 8 1/2" x 5 1/4".  I also used the score board to get the angles right for the top (peak) of the envelope. Starting with the short edge of the liner at 2 5/8, after making this score line, I flipped it over to do the other side and then cut the corners off with my paper trimmer.

Or you can mark the center of the short end 2 5/8 and down along the side 3", draw a line between these two points and cut of the corner.  Do the same for both sides.  I also used a corner rounder for the peak of the liner.  

Insert the liner on the envelope while is it still open. (TIP: This is where the lucky part came in, I found out after doing my video that the envelope is slightly wider one way. Put the shorter sides to the top and bottom, which is why I was fumbling around in the video)  I would recommend glue to adhere it.  Just glue the top side, so the liner can move up and down a little when you open and close the envelope. 

After you have the liner inserted you can fold in the two sides of the envelope, burnish the score lines and the put a strong adhesive on the bottom points of the envelope and close it up.  You are finished!

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Sharon

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