You can scale this up if you’d like to actually mail your envelopes! NOTE: This particular envelope is too small to mail by itself (the post office has size restrictions). Step 6: Fold the top flap of your envelope down, tuck it into the diamond-shaped pocket and crease that last fold, forming your envelope. Open up that little triangle that you just folded back and press the paper down to create a small diamond-shaped pocket and squash it down flat. Step 5: Now create a squash fold (you can look this up if you need more visuals). Either fold back that top left-hand flap in the center, or score the mini-triangle you see created to the right of the ruler in the photo above and then fold it back towards the left along the crease. Step 4: You do not need a ruler and bone folder for this step it just depends on how precise you like to be.
Fold the right flap down first, with the left flap on top (you can also do this vice versa). Step 3: You can guess at this step or measure, but basically you need to fold each side corner of the triangle in towards the center at slightly less than one third of the dimension of the bottom edge, keeping the bottom edges aligned. Step 2: Fold the top flap of the triangle down to the center point on the folded edge as shown. Step 1: Fold the square of paper in half diagonally with the printed design on the outside.
So, think twice before you toss that wrapping paper! This particular paper is an Italian printed paper from GPC Papers. ‘Tis the season to write thank-you notes! Here’s a clever origami envelope (not my design) that could be a nice use for wrapping paper.