Lining envelopes is fairly simple but with all simple things a few tips and tricks don’t hurt. When lining envelopes you want to be sure you have tools that are easy for you to work with and keep your liners consistent. My fav tools for this project are not a hard and fast rule but after lining literally hundreds of envelopes these work best for me.
Tools:
Glue-tape
-something that is easy for you to hold onto and control is best.
Options: the Lobby & Miss J. My personal fav is the TomBow -Permanent Adhesive
Bone folder
-if you’ve ever wondered what they are for, here ya go. (You really don’t want to use
the back of a pen for this one.) A cheap one works just fine!
Ruler
-a clear, thin one works best so you can see what you’re doing. Again, cheap is fine.
1. On the back-side of your liner run a continuous line of tape along the outer edge from the “flap” tip to the bend one each side. You don’t want to apply adhesive to the lower area of the liner at all.
2. Carefully slide the liner into the envelope without letting the adhesive touch. Once it’s fitted into the bottom, use your finger to ease the top pf the liner into place and press the adhesive exactly where you want it to stay.
3. Use your ruler to line up with the bend from the envelope.
4. Take your bone folder (at an angle to your work surface) and crease along the existing bend in the envelope. This will force your liner to bend with the envelope no matter often it’s opened.
5. For extra measure, I re-crease without the ruler to enforce the fold.
Ta-Da! And you’re on to the next one. Once you’ve worked through a few of these you’ll find a rhythm and things will speed up a lot.
Good luck, and have fun!
