Christmas Money and Gift Card Envelopes
Create these Christmas Money and Gift Card Envelopes
For the people you like to give money or gift cards to for the holidays, create them a customizable envelope that can be decorated.
Learn to Create These Easy to Make Money and Gift Card Envelopes Using Your Cricut
The holiday season is a busy time of year and sometimes it is easier to give money or gift cards.
I wanted to create an envelope that you can use and decorate that doesn’t take a lot of time.
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Materials Needed
HelP
- If you are not sure how to upload an SVG cut file to Cricut Design Space, please read this post How to Upload an SVG in Design Space
Money Envelope/Gift Card Envelope
Equipment
- Cricut Maker or your favorite cutting machine
- Brayer
- Green Cutting Mat
Materials
- 1 Sheet of Cardstock – color of your choice
- 1 Sheet of Christmas Cardstock
- For Decorations
- 1 sheet of White Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of Red Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of Yellow Cardstock
- 1 Sheet of Green Cardstock
- Cricut Pen – color of your choice
- Double Sided Tape
- Glue
Instructions
- Step 1. Cutting Out the EnvelopesUpload the money envelope into design space
- Select all and ungroup
- Next select the score lines (except the smallest one)
- Change the dotted lines from basic cut to score
- Next select the score lines, the small basic cut line and the envelope
- Attach them
- Now you are ready to click on "Make It" and select your cardstock weight.
- For the gift card envelope
- Upload to design space
- click on ungroup
- Next select the dotted lines
- change them from basic cut to score
- Then select the score lines and the envelope
- and click on attach
- Now you are ready to click on "Make It" and select your cardstock weight
- For the decorations
- upload in to design space
- select all and ungroup
- Next if using the "To – From" piece
- Select the lines and letters
- Change from basic cut to pen
- Next select the gift tag
- and attach
- Now you are ready to click on "Make It"
Step 2. Assembling the Envelopes
- Starting with the envelope main piece
- money envelope main piece
- gift card envelope main piece
- fold them on the score lines
- Note the money envelope has a half circle at the top of it and the gift card envelope does not.
- Using double sided tape put the tape either on the flaps or the sides of the bottom of the envelope
- Fold the bottom piece of the envelope up so that it adheres to the flaps
- The half circle at the top of the money envelope will slip into the slit on the lower part of the envelope
- Now you are ready to add the panels to the back of the envelope
- money envelope panels
- gift card envelope panels
- Using double sided tape, put tape on the back of the upper panel and tape it to the top of the back of the envelope
- Next using double sided tape, put tape on the back of the lower panel and tape it to the bottom of the envelope back
- Now you are ready to decorate the front of the envelopes
- You can choose from any of the decorations provided to decorate your envelopes.
- money card envelope
- gift card envelope
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