Create Your Own Envelopes For Your Scrapbook Pages

Often times we want to store items in our scrapbooks, yet we don't want to glue the item down on the page, and we don't want the small page protectors bought in the store.
The solution is simple. Make your own storage envelopes for your scrapbook pages. These envelopes can range from very simple to very detailed.
Here are a couple of suggestions on how to make envelopes:
1. Take an envelope in your home. Choose any size, large or small. Unfold the envelope and lay it out on your paper. Choose a paper that will coordinate with the scrapbook pages you are creating. Trace the open envelope. Cut out the shape and fold into an envelope. You may need to score the fold lines with a ruler or other straight edge tool. You now have an envelope the exact size of the one you unfolded.
2. Coluzzle makes both an envelope template and a library card template. Both templates come in many sizes. You trace the template on the paper of your choice with an exacto blade, cut out and then fold into an envelope. This technique can allow you to have a few envelopes of the same pattern, but in very different sizes.
3. Take the sheet of paper you wish to use for your "envelope". Cut that sheet of paper in half diagonally. Match the straight edge of your envelope with the straight edge of the bottom of your scrapbook page. Attach the envelope at the three points. You now have an "envelope" right on the page that you can put items into. I almost always use cardstock for this technique, as cardstock is stronger and will hold up better on the page.
All of these styles of envelopes can be decorated with embellishments, stickers or rubber stamps. These envelopes make great additions to your scrapbook pages.

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