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Loading...DIY: Gift Bags Made from Recycled Envelopes
- Veronica Peterson
- April 14, 2009
- 8:47 am
- 23 comments
By Jessica Jones, How About Orange
Find an envelope of any size. (I embellished these by printing a label on the front of them first. You can use my design if you want; these PDFs are set up according to how my printer feeds envelopes through. If yours is different, you might need to experiment. Download the label for a small A2 envelope or a larger 6×9 envelope.)
1. After you’ve finished printing a design on your envelope (optional), seal it shut.
2. Cut off one end of the envelope.
3. Fold one side in toward the center (maybe about an inch or slightly less). Do the same with the other side, then fold the bottom up by the same amount, making creases in the paper.
4. Put the bag over one hand. Use your other hand to shape a flat bottom for your bag, pushing the bottom center crease downward, causing the side folds to buckle out. Crease the corners of the bottom into triangles.
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Veronica Peterson
Veronica Peterson has a background in green design and creative writing. She loves discovering and sharing sustainable ways to enrich life. Veronica is a happy urbanite, who lives above a produce market in San Francisco with her dog Winnie.
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23 comments
+ add your ownI love these little bags. =) I'm a little confused though... the envelopes look new, and one of the directions is the "seal it shut" like it's never been used before... so it's not really recycled is it? It's just putting a brand new envelope to a different use.
Would this work as well with an actual recycled envelope, or would it look junky to have addresses and stuff scrawled onto it already? Would the stamp on a recycled envelope get in the way of folding it?
cool! really good idea!
thanks
you can adapt this pattern to recycled , good quality gift wrap, great for larger items. If they are fairly heavy, turn the top over insert some card and then put the handles through.
Cute! Cute! Cute! And way less expensive than the bags I always have to buy at the store!
Thanks! This gave me some inspiration.
Thanks! They look lovely, I should try it out myself. :)
Very clever!!! Thanks!
love this idea for kiddies goodie bags at parties, thanks.
Sweet idea! Definitely will have to put it to good use. Thanks! :D
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