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A Deconstructed Envelope Card (+ 1 Quick Variation)

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Here’s a free photo tutorial I did on Instagram, on a deconstructed envelope card. I designed it for a group of people who all wanted to write personal birthday wishes in one card. Simply click on the arrows in the IG post to browse through the tutorial pictures.

If you’d like more detailed instructions + the required measurements, check out the – very affordable! – downloadable PDF tutorial in my Etsy shop.

Also, check out the video below for a closer look!

And here’s the video, including a – much quicker – variation on this design:

Shopping my stash & making last-minute Christmas cards

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Happy Holiday season everyone!

Let’s create some easy-to-make Christmas cards together: shop your stash (I did! 😃) and make good use of the tips, tricks & tutorials I’m sharing with you in the below videos! Let me know what you think in the comments.

Have a very merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!

Let beautiful images in your paper speak for themselves, you don’t have to add anything (or maybe just a little glitter glue, if you cannot help yourself 😇)
Decorating only the fronts of your cards is a great time saver!
Transparent texture paste is a great way to elegantly embellish patterned papers
Keep beautiful packaging and use it to create lovely cards, quick & easy!
Vertical tri-folds, or deconstructed envelope cards like this one, are perfect to keep large patterns intact

You can watch my free video tutorial for my deconstructed envelope card here:

Hope you found these tips & tutorials helpful, either for your Christmas cards or for any other occasion!

Cottage Rose Deconstructed Envelope Card

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Sometimes I only buy 2 or 3 sheets from a design paper collection, mostly when I like the idea of it, but not the entire collection. This was the case with Kaisercraft’s Cottage Rose collection, which had lovely soft colors and some great graphic designs, but which overall I found too generic and boring to buy in its entirety.

So, I chose the sheets I liked the most, and used them all up in one go.

I turned them into four cards, one of which I’m sharing with you this week: a deconstructed envelope card. Also great for Valentine’s Day, btw 🙂

If you’d like to make one yourself, you can check out my free video tutorial!

Tutorial: Deconstructed Envelope Card – Version 2

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A little while ago I shared a video tutorial on how to create Version 1 of my deconstructed envelope cards. Today it’s time for Version 2, the original of which I shared in one of my previous posts, it looked like this:

So this week you can learn how to create one yourself, by following along with my new video tutorial! Just pause the video at any time you want to read one of the measurements or instructions, or if you want to study a detail.

Have fun creating, and leave a comment if you like!

Deconstructed Envelope Card – Part 3

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I’m still having fun designing what I call Deconstructed Envelope Cards – by which I mean fold-out cards that when closed, resemble envelopes. In previous posts I already shared a square one and a rectangular one.

This week I’m playing around with flaps of different sizes to create a whole new effect. I sized them to exactly fit some Graphic 45 cutaparts, which brings me to another tip: you only have to buy 3 sheets of double-sided paper to get a lot of bang for your buck, as long as one of them is a cutapart sheet!

Paper collections used:
* Graphic 45’s Mon Amour
* Graphic 45’s Midnight Masquerade

Enjoy!

Deconstructed Envelope Card – Version 2

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Last week I shared my first Decontructed Envelope Card – this week I’m showing you a different variation of that same design category. This one is actually easier to create, for it doesn’t have any slanted edges like the previous one.

As usual I only modestly decorated, for imho less is still more, most of the times. 🙂

Let me know if you have any questions!

A Deconstructed Envelope Card

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This week I’m pleased to share my latest design category with you all: Deconstructed Envelope Cards. By which mean fold-out cards that when closed, resemble envelopes. This is the first of what will probably be several more variations of this design.

Enjoy!