Arts and crafts time

I found these cute envelopes on Etsy through a link on Budget Ecoist. They're cute but it got me to thinking that envelopes made should be especially easy to make from magazine pages or covers.

So, since I had the morning off, I decided to do a little arts and crafts (when I should be going to the grocery store or cleaning the house).

First I deconstructed a standard envelope. Easy enough. If you're concerned about wasting an envelope you can always tape or glue it back together. I used the envelope as a template for my magazine page, torn out of Martha Stewart Living for testing purposes only.


I then folded the flaps and taped them to one another. The result:

A veggielicious envelope.

Since it would be hard to read any addresses on that, I just taped some leftover white bits of the magazine page where I wanted to label:
I'm not sure I'd take my chances putting this in the mail, but it doesn't seem any flimsier than the envelope I used as my template. You could always use the magzine cover to make things sturdier. I may send this as a test drive to the Modern Mom to see if the Postal Service complains.

Here's another template from this site if you don't have an envelope.

The whole thing took me about 30 seconds. Enjoy!