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Stationery Crafts

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Stationery Crafts

Send your cards and letters!
 
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About the projects

Enhance your correspondence and greeting cards with these crafts with specialty envelopes and stickers. Or make notepads and storage boxes for your desk.

The projects range in difficulty from VERY EASY to AVERAGE.

Browse down this page for descriptions and illustrations of the projects, then select a project and have some crafting fun! Or jump to the category index for a listing of all crafts.

Recycled Paper Notepads

Recycled paper notepads
Description ↓

Make beautiful and functional notepads from recycled paper! You will use paper from the home and office that is printed on one side, along with scraps of leftover craft paper to make these up-cycled scratch pads. Keep several notepads on hand to give as gifts.

EASY

Cardstock Animal Bookmarks

Lizard bookmark
Description ↓

Make animal-shaped bookmarks from cardstock. Just print, color, cut and bend to make these cute bookmarks for yourself or to give as gifts. This is a good project for kids to practice coloring and cutting. It is also a quick craft for adults to make as gifts for the grandkids!

VERY EASY

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Envelopes to Make

Custom made envelopes
Description ↓

See how easy it is to make a custom envelope for all of your handmade cards. The envelope can be made from white or colored paper, and can be decorated to match your card. There are printable patterns for three sizes of greeting card envelopes.

EASY

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Envelopes with Square Flaps

Patterns for Envelopes with Square Flaps
Description ↓

Need an envelope for your handmade Valentine? Choose from plain and colored patterns for three sizes of easy-to-make envelopes with square flaps. The pink, blue and purple envelope patterns feature energetic hearts. Or add your creative flare to envelopes made with the plain envelope patterns!

EASY

Custom Envelope in Any Size

Custom envelopes in any size
Description ↓

It's easy to make an envelope in just about any size.  In this project, you will draw a custom pattern for an envelope in the exact size to meet your needs.

EASY

Greeting Card Case

Greeting Card Case
Description ↓

Follow the instructions in this project to make a storage case for holding greeting cards. Make a special gift by combining this case with your handcrafted greeting cards. The printable patterns in this project make up into three case sizes, including cases sized for the cards featured in the Greeting Card Tutorials.

AVERAGE

Magazine and Paper Holder

Magazine holder with sponged and stenciled decorations
Friday Fun Description ↓

Here’s a craft that is fun to do, recycles empty cereal boxes, and organizes those stacks of magazines, paperback books and miscellaneous papers around the house or in your child’s bedroom.

AVERAGE

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Half-moon Petal Envelope

Half-moon petal envelope
Description ↓

Have fun making these delightful envelopes with half-moon flaps that fold like petals. Spring and Easter designs are included in the project. Use these envelopes as a gift wrap for small gifts or to store keepsakes.

VERY EASY

Square Petal Envelope

Square petal envelope
Friday Fun Description ↓

Learn a surprising technique for making square petal envelopes. These simple envelopes are inspired by Japanese gift wraps and require little or no adornment. They are great for wrapping flat packages or gift cards.

AVERAGE

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Five-Petal Pentagon Envelopes

Five-Petal Pentagon Envelope
Description ↓

Make an elegant envelope wrap with rounded flaps that fold like petals to close into a five-sided pentagon shape. This unique petal envelope is a terrific gift wrap solution for small items like jewelry and scarves or to store keepsakes.

VERY EASY

Seal Gum Recipe

Homemade Stickers with Seal Gum adhesive
Friday Fun Description ↓

Learn how to make homemade seal gum for stickers and envelopes. With this adhesive you will be able to make your own stickers from ordinary paper. Make stickers from drawings or stamped images, clipart or pictures cut from wrapping paper—the sky's the limit! This lick and stick adhesive also works great on handmade envelopes.

VERY EASY

Sticker Fun

Homemade Stickers with Seal Gum adhesive
Friday Fun Description ↓

Not only does every child love stickers, but stickers are also an easy way to decorate and personalize your printed output. Whether it's a card, letter, or certificate, a sticker is a fun way to liven things up! Follow the instructions in this project to make stickers using Aunt Annie's sticker sheets. Then, go one step further and create your own stickers to use or trade!

VERY EASY

Tissue Paper Painting

Painted tissue paper envelope liner
Friday Fun Description ↓

Make colorful tissue paper with this super easy technique. Simply pleat a piece of tissue paper and paint the folded edges. Repeat the process once or twice to create an even more exciting design! The painted tissue paper may be used to wrap packages, to cover box lids, line envelopes, and in greeting cards, suncatchers, collages, and much more.

EASY

Mini-Envelopes for Gift Enclosure Cards

Click for how to make mini-envelopes
Description ↓

Use the mini-envelope templates to make envelopes that fit gift enclosure cards that are 2¼", 2½" and 2¾" square. See how to make visually striking gift cards and matching envelopes using Handmade Paper with a Contrasting Border.

EASY

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