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1. Introduction: Hello and welcome to my class on creating envelope liners.
My name is Nikki. I'm the artist and
educator behind Lavender and C. I
have five years of experience in the wedding
industry and today I'm going to show you how to make beautiful envelope blinders. I'm going to take you
through everything you need to know to
create your own. We are going to be needing two pieces of software
that are really important. The first one is
Adobe Photoshop, the second one is Illustrator. Now if you do not want to
create a repeating pattern, you don't have to worry
about using Photoshop. But you will need
Illustrator as that is how we're going to export
our templates printed. I'm going to go over all the different kinds of envelopes, different shapes and sizes, where you can get templates
for the envelope liner, how to set up everything
in illustrator. How this is a bonus section, but how to create a repeating
pattern if you want to. That's when we're going
to be using Photoshop. I'm going to show
you where I print my envelope liners at and
how to assemble them. This is a really great class. If you are a total beginner, maybe you're somebody who is creating wedding
invitations and you want to add in that little extra
pop envelope liners are a great way to do that. I've enjoyed having them
on almost every single one of sweets that I've created in my last five
years of business. I just think that they are a great way even if you don't
have a business or you're not creating invitation
sweets to add them to things like stationery that you send out to your
friends and family. All right, let's get started.
2. Class Project: Class project is going to be
creating an envelope liner. I am going to be using some of my own artwork that
I have created. But feel free to use any
artwork that you have, whether that is artwork that
you have already created, maybe you created something specifically for this class or anything that you might
have purchased on places like or creative market. Just make sure if you are
creating something for a client that you are using
a commercial license. Because that is a license
you'll need if you are going to be selling
your envelope liners. However, if you are doing
this just for personal use, a personal use
license is just fine. Please make sure to share
your class projects. You don't have to share
the printed final piece. But if you could just take a
screenshot of your template, that would be amazing. I know I say this all the time, but I really do enjoy
seeing what you create and it's very
encouraging for other students. All right, let's get started.
3. All About Envelopes: Before we even get started thinking about our design
for our envelopes, we need to know the
size of our envelopes. Now, today we are
going to be working with the standard seven size, which is 5.4 " by 7.4 ". But you can do
envelope liners in any size because you might be doing a nine size
for your client, or sometimes people want
envelope liners for their RCPs, although personally I
think that's a waste. But you never know.
Don't feel like you have to do the
size that I'm doing. You can do any size,
but for learning, you probably want to
follow along with me. Also, the seven size is your typical standard size for an invitation and that is most likely what
you'll be doing. We also need to consider
whether you're going to be using a Euro flap
or a square flap. I personally am a
Euro flap snob. That's the triangle shape. I think it looks a
lot more elegant, but some people like
the square shape. There's those two sizes. Then whatever size
you're working with, you'll need to
pull that template from your printing vendor. You can make the
templates yourself, but so much easier to just get a template from the vendor that you'll
be printing with. We'll talk more about
printing later on. But I do want to
mention that I like to outsource my envelope liners. It just saves me so much time. They look really professional. I don't have to worry about
my printer messing up. To me, it makes more
sense to do it that way. Another thing that you want to consider is whether
you will be using just one envelope or if you're going to be using an
inner and outer envelope. My personal preference is to use both an outer envelope
and an inner envelope. The reason I do
this is because I put the liner on
the inner envelope. That way if a guest gets the invitation and they
rip open that first layer, I don't have to worry about my beautiful envelope
liner not being seen. That's why I choose to
use an inner envelope. Of course you don't have to, but that is my preference. Whenever I have a custom
invitation suite, I always have a inner
and outer envelope. The inner envelope, I
usually do not seal, or I very lightly seal it. We'll go over that later
when we talk about assembly. My preference is to have the inner envelope
with the liner, and then the outer envelope
does not have a liner. I believe that it just saves your beautiful artwork
and also your client is paying more to have
the liner and you don't want them to
have it ripped open. Another consideration
to think about is whether if you are using
an inner envelope, there are gummed and
gummed envelopes. If you're doing the inner, you'll be using an seven, then your outer envelope
would be an A 7.5. Make sure if you do inner
and outer envelopes, the outer one is larger
because you will need the inner one to be
able to fit inside of it. The gummed is for your
inner envelope and I like to use an ungummed
when I'm doing a liner because I just
think it looks nicer. I'm not going to be sealing it. I don't need that
sealant on the outside. To me it looks a little bit more elegant, but totally up to you. Sometimes I have a client
like I did recently, they wanted the light
sky blue envelopes, but unfortunately, they did not come in ungummed or
they were sold out. We did have to use
the gummed envelopes. They still looked beautiful. Not my preference, but
it all worked out. I want to mention a few of
the envelope vendors that I use because I think sometimes when you're
first starting off, it can be a little overwhelming. The first one that I like to
use is cards and pockets. They're fantastic, they
have beautiful colors. They have a lot of envelopes. They have both the square
flap and the Euro flap. You can order a sample
of their card stock, it's card stock, but their envelope colors
come in the same colors. It can be really helpful
when you're trying to pick out a specific color
for your envelopes. The next vendor that I
like to use is actually, this is probably my top vendor
announcement converters. You do need to have a
wholesale account to use them. It's really easy.
You just fill out their questionnaire
for a sale account. You really do need to have
a website and a business. You can't just be a regular old consumer and be
able to get the wholesale. They work with businesses. If you fill out the wholesale, you'll be able to get
the really great prices. They have so many options. Something that I
learned recently, not that recently,
maybe a year ago. Is that even though they
carry specific brands, the envelope might be
slightly different in shape and size
from cars and pocket. Cars and pockets might
carry the exact same brand, but cars and pockets hides their brands,
just so you know. But it might be the exact same, but the sizes can be slightly different or the shape
of the envelope. Now it's still going
to be a seven, it's going to fit in seven card, but the envelope shape might be just a little more pointer. It'll affect the liner. However, as you can see here, these are from my three
favorite vendors, cars in pockets, announcement
converters and LCI paper. The liner fits decently
in all of them. Now if you are
really, really picky, you can do a custom die, we'll talk about that later. Or if your client
is really picky, you can totally do a custom die. But for the most part, I think that these look great and that you don't need to have anything fancy or you don't need to go above and beyond
and have a custom die, which can be a lot more money because these fit just great. But I really like mind. I don't know if that's
how you pronounce it, but it's one of my
favorite paper suppliers. I also love Kcal. They have some amazing colors. Their mill went out of business and it was
just taken over. I think right now this is all the extra stock
that they have. But I'm not sure how that's going to change in the future. You might want to
consider that if you say recommend a coral
envelope to your client. They might not be around
next year or just buy them right now. I love them. I like to, like I said, I like a Euro flap and
I also like 80 pound. 80 pound is going
to be a lot thicker than they don't have it on here, but there's a lighter
weight and I just really don't like the light weight.
I like the thicker weight. I think it feels a
lot more elegant. Also, you can see
here that this is an outer Euro flap envelope. This is an inner gummed
announced converters has a lot more choices than
a lot of other vendors. Again, I highly recommend them. If you have your own business and you make invitation suites, announcement converters, 100% is going to
be your best bet. Probably close to the
best deal as well. Lastly, LCI paper, they are not but maybe just
a couple years old. They are great as well. They carry the mend envelopes. They have these colors. They don't have as many colors as announcement
converters because announcement converters has
so many different brands that they have in their store. This might be a good option
for you, if you like, the colors that LCI has, all of these suppliers. The template that I show you, the envelope template, fits inside of most
of their envelopes. Okay? Decide what size
envelope you want to be using. That is your first thing that you're
going to think about. I really recommend knowing the envelope that the
liner is going to go in. You definitely want to make
sure that it's in stock. It would be awful if you picked something and it
was not in stock. You definitely want to
make sure it's in stock. You want to make
sure you know the size that you're using. Then of course, whether it's a Euro flap or a
regular square flap, that will determine a lot of how your design
is going to look. These are all super
important things to consider when you start to think about your envelope liner. Then from you can
start to design. What I would do is I would grab my template from
my printing vendor. We're going to talk about
that in the next section. These lay the foundation for you to be able to start
your envelope liner.
4. Printing Vendor and Templates: Before we get started
into designing, we need to discuss or we need to know what printer
we're going to be using. Because we need to get
a template from them. Now like I mentioned in
the previous session, you can use the template
that I have provided. It's from Print Swell
Fulfillment because it works on a variety of envelopes. But just make sure you know that your envelope lin er template fits the envelope that
you're going to use. Super, super important. I'm going to say that again. Make sure that the template
that you are using to design your envelope liner in matches the envelope that
you're going to use. I'll show you a way to test
that in the next section. But real quick, I am on the print swell
fulfillment website. You do need to have
a wholesale account if you want to use their
fulfillment website. If you do invitations,
I highly, highly, highly recommend getting
a wholesale account. It's free, you just apply here. It's really easy. All you
need to do is provide them with your website and
some general information. I use print swell for
almost all of my printing, whether it's
invitation suites or my art prints or my
cards in my Etsy shop. They're fantastic. I think their quality of printing
is really great. I'm going to go ahead and log in because I already
have an account. I'm going to come up
here to need help. Once you have an account, come up here to need help
to access their templates. They have a ton of super
helpful information here, especially if you're
just getting started. Also, I forgot to mention it, but in the resources
section of this class, there is a PDF that you
can download and you can get $25 off of your
first order with Prince. Well, if you use the
link that I have there, and I also provided the link for you to apply for a
wholesale account. If that's something that
you're interested in, I'm going to go
to the guides and templates and click on
Template Downloads. They have all of
their templates. I also do my stickers for
my packaging with them, and these are all the
templates they have, which is super helpful. They have cut templates as well, but we are going to be using their envelope liners straight, like we discussed,
or the Euro flap, we are using the
Euro flap liners. When you click on it, it
just downloads the zip here. Now, I've already downloaded
this to my desktop. I'm going to open
it up really quick. As you can see, you
can do the liner. There's templates for
Illustrator in design. There's also PDF PNG. I'm going to be
showing you how to do the envelope liner
in Illustrator. We are working on seven size. Remember we're doing
the inside envelope, That's going to be a seven. You don't have to do
an outer envelope, but either way it's
going to be an A seven. This is our template that
we're going to be working with which I know will fit in
the envelopes that I have. Which are the ones the cards and pocket ones
or the LCI paper ones. If you do, obviously
you probably don't have a wholesale account
because you're watching this video, you might. But if you don't, go ahead and download this from the
class resources section, I have it in there so
you can bring it into Illustrator and we can get
started with designing. One other thing I want to
mention really quick is if you do have an envelope that say doesn't fit what you need or this liner
doesn't fit your envelope. I use Mingo press a lot and I do a custom die and
I will just tell them what envelope I'm using and they usually
have the custom die. Or you can also reach out to print swell and
see if they can do a custom die that will
fit super perfect. One thing I want to mention, if you order just
regular envelope liners from Mingo without a die cut, they will cut them
like a sharp triangle. I learned that
lesson, they were so ugly I had to hand cut
all of them myself. Please, please, please make
sure you're very clear with them that you want to
die cut with rounded edges. If you are using any of the envelopes that
we talked about, you're pretty safe
going with prints well. And they are going to
fit pretty nicely. They're not going
to be absolutely perfect in every envelope
that we mentioned, but they'll fit pretty nice. All right, now that
we've talked about and know the printer
that we're going to use, and we have our template, we can start designing
our envelope liner.
5. Designing Your Liner: Now we are ready to design. I had to switch my microphone, so I hope it's not too drastically different
for you guys. Okay, now we're in
the designing phase and I've mocked up a couple
of different designs here. I recommend that you bring
in your own artwork. Or if you have a
commercial license or you've purchased artwork, you can totally bring
that in here as well. You can use sites like Unsplash. They do have free,
royalty free images. Some of them, not all of them. Just make sure that you
share the photographer. The photographer here
is Jonathan Hernandez. I've made these
different layouts using our template to showcase
what you can do. There are a lot of
options when it comes to envelope liners. This one in particular, I wanted them to look like they were coming
out of the envelope. Something I do to make
sure that I line it up correctly is obviously I
have my template here, but I measure the
actual envelope to see where the line will
be for it to come up. For my envelope, it
was about 4 " here. I recommend doing that if you want to have something
that comes through. But make sure you leave a little extra space just in case for some
reason it's slightly off. You don't want there to be
a white gap right here. Honestly, I could
have just expanded these flowers all the way down and I would be completely safe. This is one option
that you can do. As you can see, this is
the cut line right here. This is the bleed. You
always want to make sure that it extends
past the bleed. This template is actually
slightly different. The template that we're going to be working with looks like this. It really clear where the cut is and then
the bleed is out here. But I just wanted to show you a few different ways that you can design your envelope liners. These aren't the only ways, but there are some popular ways. The second one is just this. Like I've thrown all of my flowers and they've
landed like this. It's not a repeat pattern, but it is a pattern in a way. This is another way that you
could do envelope liners. To be honest, I like to extend my artwork all the way to the bottom just in case
somebody peaks inside. I don't want it just
to be blank down here unless it's something
like a venue painting, but you can do it like this. Just make sure again that you're extending past where
the bleed line is. That way your artwork looks like it's coming
off of the edge. If everything is nicely
tucked inside, I don't know. It just doesn't have the same
vibe to me, just a side. In the next lesson, I am going
to teach you how to make a simple repeat
pattern and put it onto an envelope liner if that's something that
you're interested in. Next we have the very
popular venue painting. This is a venue painting I
did of Hummingbird Ranch. They used it as an
envelope liner. I wanted to make
sure, of course, I have the artwork go
past this folded area, there's no white mark. Just make sure it
goes a little bit past when you have
the envelope closed. You're not seeing
a white gap here. I will recommend when you guys, if you're doing your own artwork and you're painting
an envelope liner, I do like an outline of the envelope liner and
then paint inside of that. Just here's a great example. I did a venue recently, this for another station. I just did the artwork and she wanted a venue that
was super long, it doesn't work for
an envelope liner. I tried to help her understand
that, but she didn't. It was a mini disaster, but everything worked
out in the end. You want to make sure that
you know what you want your envelope liner to look like when you start painting.
Just keep that in mind. If you have a super long venue, then you're going
to have a lot of blank space here.
Maybe that's okay. Maybe you don't
mind the white or maybe your customer
client doesn't, but just keep that in mind. Then we have the pet paintings that are always so popular. Again, you want to make sure you know where your
envelope is going to go. It's going to come down here, it's, and then it's
going to go up here. Our little dog is just
peeking out the top. Then sometimes people
really like to use photos. Photos are another great way, or vintage artwork
that you could buy. This would obviously fill up the entire liner
template is behind this. What you want to
do is right click, arrange, send to back. Then you're able to see
how this will be cut. Now, right now you would
just see a tiny bit of this. I would move it up a bit. You can organize it
however you want. But this is another great way. If you want to have something that is maybe not your artwork, it's a photo, you
could do this as well. And then they'll just cut
where this black line is. Those are some
options that you can have when you're creating
an envelope liner. I am going to choose this one that we are
going to have printed. I'm going to come over here. As you can see, I have already
put it into my template, but I want to show you when. It's just this what
you want to do. You do not want to send this to print swell with all of the text and the cut line and
everything on it because up printing that you
don't want that printed. This is just for
you as a guideline. A couple of things
that you can do here. The first thing that I
recommend is bringing in your artwork before you get
rid of this die cut line. Because that is going
to tell you what is going to be cut off and
what is going to stay in. However, we don't need
all of this stuff, this is just helpful reminders. This is helpful. This will be helpful when we think
about our pattern because we want to export out
of Photoshop at this size. You can either just drag
these over to the side or these little eyeballs over
here in your layers panel. You can turn them off or you can also just
totally delete them. I'm going to delete them. I know that this is the top
and this is the bottom. I'm going to delete this
right now because we need it. I'm going to come over
here and I'm just going to copy this artwork and
paste it in here. But however you're
working with artwork, you can bring it into here. Organize it how you want. If you want it to look
like those flowers that are just throwing down. If you're using a
venue illustration, if you have photograph
that you want to use, you can totally bring that in. This is looking pretty good. Expand it just a
little bit so that I make sure it goes
over the edge again. Make sure you are
crossing that bleed line. You don't want to have, well, a little white
space here is okay. But if you have something where you don't want
any white space, make sure it's not showing because that is what's
going to be printed. It goes well under
this line that I have set up where my
envelope would hit. I'm happy with that. I
think this looks fantastic. One thing that I like
to do personally, is, like I said in the
previous sections, I outsource all of
my envelope liners. To me, it makes more sense. I don't want to be time
printing and cutting 100 envelope liners when
I could be spending time on more lucrative things like creating more artwork or
stuff for my product shop. To me, it doesn't make
sense to print these and cut them myself,
however I do. If you're doing a small job, say you're taking this
class just for fun, and you want to judge up your envelopes
that you're spending, like thank you cards or
something like that. Totally print these from home. You only have to cut a couple, maybe one or two or up to ten. That is fine. But when
you're doing multiples, it's so much easier
to just outsource it. I like to do a little test run since I like to purchase
my envelopes before, which I do also want to say that if you are
printing your envelopes, say you are using
only one envelope, you're not doing an
inner and outer, you just have the
seven envelope. You also most likely want to get your guest names
printed on them. If you are getting your guest names for
your client printed, you want to make
sure that you have already tested out the envelopes just to make sure that
everything works. The envelope liner, I recommend having samples,
which most likely, if you are choosing an envelope
for a invitation suite, you ordered a sample so that you could see it in raw life. What I like to do is I print out this on my home printer
or my studio printer, which is a decent printer. I have a Canon IPA 720. I just print it out and
cut it out to make sure it fits in my envelope here is
one that I printed at home. The paper quality is not great. This is crappy computer paper. But it serves the purpose
that I need it to, which is to show me that
the envelope liner fits inside of the envelopes that
I've selected for my client. Okay, moving on. Now that we're happy
with our artwork, we know it fits inside
of our envelope. We want to delete all
of these other lines. We do not need this line. Now make sure it fits in here. It looks great, because
this is how it's going to be printed. Delete that line. You can either delete it by
clicking it and deleting it, or turning off the eyeball. Or I save a copy
of this as a PDF, exactly how it is. Don't
move your artwork. I'm just going to save
this to my desktop. I'm going to say
floral envelope liner. We got a PDF.
Perfect, A unclick, Preserve Illustrator editing capabilities and compression, especially when you're working
with watercolor artwork. Unclick, compress
text and line art. I don't want them to
compress my artwork. I want it to be a big file so it's nice and clean and crisp. Okay, we are ready
to get this printed and what I'm going to do
is the, it's a bonus. I'm going to show
you how to create a repeating pattern if that's something
that you want to do. Otherwise the next section is going to be sending
it off for print.
6. Creating A Repeat Pattern: In this lesson, I'm
going to show you how to make a simple repeating pattern. It's a very simple little hack. Not really to hack,
but a simple way to create them in Photoshop. I'm going to show
you that right now. I also think that sometimes you can do what I
showed you before. You just throw all
of the elements, the florals, onto the
envelope template the way you want them to be. But I think sometimes a real repeat pattern
can look extra nice. We're in Photoshop, I'm going to come up here to file
and create new. We don't need a gigantic. This is about 10 " by 10 ". I like to do it that big, just because I want
the resolution to look really nice and just hit Create. I've already brought in all
of my watercolor florals, the same ones that I was
working with before, into my library, my pod library. I'm going to come
up here to view, I'm going to select
pattern preview. Now, pattern preview is an amazing tool that
photo shop has, because when I put something
on this canvas here, it's going to repeat it around the entire pattern,
which is amazing. It makes my life so easy. You can just move these
to where we want. You can make them bigger. I will say that for purposes
of an envelope liner, this works really well. But if you are doing
a repeat pattern, I recommend having all your
elements as smart objects. But this is not a class
on repeat patterns. I'm just showing you really
quick how I do this. When I want to create
a repeat pattern for an envelope liner, all I'm doing is just bringing
in my different elements and putting them together
how I want them to be. Don't worry, I'm not
going to make you sit through this entire thing. But I just want to show you a couple elements
before I speed it up. You want to think about this part right here being your main canvas
inside of the square. Then everything that you put in here is going to be
repeated outside of that, which is really cool. I don't know what kind of
elements you're working with, but whether you have some watercolor elements that you want to make into a pattern, just grab those and put them into a pattern using
pattern preview. I'm going to speed this up while I make my pattern
and then I'll show you how I export it and
move it into my template. Okay, I have put together
my pattern here. I could spend a lot
of time on this and really get very
intricate about it, but I think that this
looks pretty cool. What I'm going to do is obviously you guys make
sure you save your work. I just assume that most
designers or artists, we do that, we save our work. But there have been so many
times where I have not saved my work and I
have literally cried. Make sure you save your work. I'm going to save this
pattern file so I can drop it into a canvas size that'll
fit nicely in my liner. Going to come up here to edit, and I'm going to come
down to define pattern. Then you can name this
whatever you want. I'm going to say
spring loose florals. Okay, Now this is
saved in my patterns. I'm going to come
back up to file. I'm going to create a new file. How? Oops, not that. Remember how I mentioned this, 7.25 by 9.5 this is
going to be important. Now, we are going to come in here and we're going
to make the width 7.25 The height 9.25 I
think it was 9.25 Was it 9.5 I always forget
numbers so fast. Okay, And then hit Create. Now we have what will be the perfect size for
our seven envelope. If you're working with a
different size envelope, you need to make this file
the size of that envelope. But since we're
working with an seven, that's why I'm doing
the 7.25 " by 9.5 ". Now we want to put
in that pattern. We come up here to layer, new fill layer pattern. Okay? We obviously don't
want this pattern. You see this little carrot
right here? This little arrow? Click it. I have a
lot of patterns here, but I know that the last one
is the one that I created. Obviously this scale
is way too big. I want it to be a lot smaller. I'm going to play with
this number right here until I find
something that I like. Let's try 25, I think
that looks cool. 45. Just play with the number
until I see what I like. That's way too big. But maybe you want your pattern
to be more big. I don't want it to be
really small like that. But it could look cool, small like that, depending
on what you're doing. I think I was happy. I think 25 is good for me. Maybe just a teeny
bit smaller. 22? 22 is perfect. Okay. Now I have this beautiful pattern and
it's the size of my envelope. I'm going to export
this as a J peg. You want it to be 2.1
megabytes is good. You don't want anything under 1 megabyte because that
will be too low quality. And you want to make sure
this is high quality. You can also
increase it up here. I'm going to increase
it just because I like big files
and I cannot lie. I want it to Pod and then just save
it to your desktop or wherever you're saving it. I'm going to say
floral repeat pattern. I used to be so lazy about
how I saved my files, the names of them, and I really
recommend being specific. Two things here you
can either come up to, you can place your
artwork that way. Or what I like to do
is I just drag it from my desktop or the
file and drag it in. I'm going to zoom out here. Obviously this is
a very big file. Make sure you hold down shift or it's going to get warped. And we don't want it to get warped re size so that
it fits your canvas. Zoom in. Now this looks great, but enter, this looks great. But my pattern is behind
my template is behind it. And I want to see my
template outside of it. Just go to arrange
and send it back. And it'll send it to the back so you can see where
it'll be cut at. You can, obviously, this is
going to be hard to adjust, right, Because we don't have
a lot of room on both sides. If you're working with something where you think you
might have to adjust a, just give it extra space
instead of doing that. File 7 " by 9 ", make it eight by 10 " or whatever so that you have
space to move it around. Nothing is going to save
outside of this area anyway, so you don't have to
worry about that. I think that this looks
beautiful and I don't really need to adjust it because it's a repeating pattern.
That's another thing. Because it's a
repeating pattern, we don't have to worry
that it's going to look funky because your eye
naturally just goes everywhere. Because it is repeating. And it's repeating the real way, not just like the other
one that we did from here. You're going to follow
the same instructions that I showed you
in the last lesson. You want to make sure that
you turn off these grids. I mean the cut lines, you don't need those, you
just export this as is. Turn off this too. I don't
know if you guys see it's this frosted area that they
have set up in the template. You don't need that, just
export it like this. And then upload it just
the same way that we did all our other envelope liners and you will have a
beautiful repeat pattern. Also, a really cool thing
is you didn't have to do all the work down here to
put the extra florals. The repeat pattern
did it for you. That way, if the guess
peeks into the envelope, they're going to see
this pretty pattern. All right, now let's
do the assembly. I'm going to show you how to assemble your envelope liners.
7. Printing: Now it's time to send our
envelope blinders off to print. I have logged into my print swell account and
I am selecting start order. I have this up here
like this because all my personal information and credit card information
is down here. That's why it's like
this. But you'll see the full screen. When you order yours, we're going to go what type of product do you want to order? We want to order
envelope liners, but we want to make
sure that we select Euro flap envelope blinders. Then we are going
to select the size. Again, we're doing
the seven liner. Seven by 9.5 select the paper. Either of these is fine. I like the bright white so that my watercolor artwork
really stands out, but it's totally up to you. The egg shell white is a little
bit more of an off white. Now we just select
how many we want. Typically, I like to order extras just in
case I have any issues. But let's say 125. Select this product. Then we are going
to upload our PDF. Find your PDF, and let's see here it is, floral
envelope liner. Because we use their template, it's going to fit perfectly. We don't have to
worry about that, we just wait until it uploads. Sometimes it can take
a little bit if it's a big file, looks great. I will say that it's oftentimes
a little blurry here. Don't be disappointed or nervous if it's a
little bit blurry. If it's really blurry,
there's probably an issue. But a little bit, I
wouldn't worry about it. Then we just add to cart, we are all ready
then you would just check out below super easy. I am amazed how easy it can be to make your own
envelope liners highly, highly recommend
using print swell. And now you're going to have your beautiful envelope liners. Now you just select or how you would like
it shipped to you, put in your information
for them to bill you. They're usually pretty quick. I typically get my orders within one to two weeks
from print swell. Now we are going to focus on
assembling our envelopes. It might seem really simple, but there are a couple key tips that I want to share
with you when you are assembling your envelope
liners into your envelopes.
8. Assembling Envelope Liners: I want to show you
the best way that I have found to assemble
your envelope liners. Now, it might seem
super easy like, oh, just glue them in. But there is a way that works better than the ways that
I've done in the past. I used to use a glue stick. I really don't recommend
using a glue stick. I have had the liners come
undone from glue sticks. What I like to use is an ATG
or an Advanced tape Glider. You can buy these on
places like Amazon. I have the link in the
resources PDF for this class. This setup, how you get this going can be
a little complicated. It is pretty straightforward, but I have struggled
with it before, so I recommend getting
on Youtube and googling advanced
tape glider set up. People explain it
better than I do there. Plus you might not have
any trouble with it, but if you do find
yourself having trouble, go to Youtube, search that and you'll be
able to get some help. Okay, now that we know
we're using the ATG, we are going to
assemble our liners. I printed these at prints. Well, this is a
pattern that I've made with little Corgis, obviously I love
Corgis. I have one. This is the Md envelope. And this is a cards and pocket to show you
the differences. Again, they fit pretty well. I'm very happy with them, but you can see there is just
like a slight difference. This one has a little more space that fits a little differently. Now that we have
our envelope liner in, this is how I do it. I put my envelope liner in. I make sure that it's
as even as possible. Then I hold onto
the bottom here. I take the flap and
I fold it down. Then I open it up. My flap and my liner. I take my ATG. I put three little pieces
of this tape here. Leave it like this. Make sure
you don't move the liner. I take the top flap,
I hold it down. Just put some pressure here
so that the tape sticks. And then I open it up
in few things here. The reason that you do not
want to tape this down is because you need it to have
a little bit of movement. Do you see how it moves?
Just a little bit. Otherwise, if you
glue everything down and they open this,
it's going to tear. It's going to warp or make some weird little seams here
and we don't want that. All you need to do is just tape down this
part of the flap. It's really nice.
It opens nicely. Has some movement down
here. It's not stuck. You really don't have
to worry about it down here because this is
keeping it in place. That is how I assemble
my envelope liners. It may seem simple, but it's really important
to do it this way. I have found it to
be the best way.
9. Thank you!: Congratulations, you've
reached the end of this class. I hope that you feel very confident in making
envelope liners. Now if you could please
share what you've created. You don't have to share
the printed piece, but just take a screenshot of the envelope liner
and illustrator. I really do love to see what you create and it encourages
other students. Also, if you could share this class either
on social media or share with someone
you know who might be interested in creating
envelope liners, that would be amazing if you
don't follow me already. Follow me on Instagram
at Lavender. And you can also tag me on social media
and share your work. And I love to see
it that way too. Thanks again for watching my class and I hope you
have a beautiful day.
Nikki Hess, Artist & Corgi Mama
