Home made envelopes - Guidance please.

I'm about to start making my own Greetings Cards
and haven't yet found a source of envelopes tin
which to place them. To be more explicit, I haven't
been able to find envelopes other than those of
conventional size

What I want is a basic template from which to make them.

You'll appreciate that any envelope created on a PC
to be printed on A4 paper will not be big enough to make
- for instance - a 6.5" square envelope.

Are you able to advise on how to make such an envelope?
The sealing fold-over tags in particular appear difficult.

Perhaps in ignorance, I feel that I can't be the first to be
faced with this problem.

In anticipation, thank you.

John -

As I see it you have several options:

* Use legal size paper which, if I recall, is 8.5 inches X 13 inches
and therefore large enough to get your 6.5" square envelope from a
single sheet.

* Make the envelope from two pieces of paper.

* Make cards that will fit in an envelope that is 5.25 inches X 7.5
inches (the max comfortable size made from 8.5 X 11 inch paper) or
smaller.

What size paper are you using to make the cards?
Bert
(new to this list.... Hi everyone!)

Bert.
I've gone one step forward - I tell myself - and having
looked at a couple of internet sites, I've decided to start from
scratch. I drew the front panel of the envelope size I require
- it doesn't matter what the dimensions are - but I draw them
to a scale of 2:1. If the scale wont fit on A4, I increase (or is it
decrease) to 3:1. This drawing is "saved as" to "template."

With the information recorded on this "template" I draw the details
on to the back of ANY suitably sized paper,,, Wrapping Paper,
A4 Sheet Paper or Newspaper - it turns you on!!! .

It's just a matter of checking the fit of the card in the folded paper
and if it's OK, glue the flaps and away you go.

My next step will be to actually create the drawing on sheet
Perspex and cut it to shape. At that stage I'll have a permanent
hardcopy for each non-standard envelope I produce, which
means I'll be able to help out interested friends.

Half of the fun is finding ot how to accomplish a problem
concerning a subject about which I know absolutely nothing :-)

John.
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On 31 Jan 2005 01:02:37 -0800, "Bert" wrote:

John -

As I see it you have several options:

* Use legal size paper which, if I recall, is 8.5 inches X 13 inches
and therefore large enough to get your 6.5" square envelope from a
single sheet.

* Make the envelope from two pieces of paper.

* Make cards that will fit in an envelope that is 5.25 inches X 7.5
inches (the max comfortable size made from 8.5 X 11 inch paper) or
smaller.

What size paper are you using to make the cards?
Bert
(new to this list.... Hi everyone!)