How to Make Easy Fabric Envelopes TUTORIAL 

Tina, we don't watch videos looking for perfection. We watch because we like you and we are looking for inspiration. Seeing that someone else has the same struggles helps .

I literally have a thousand yards of fabric as a former quilt shop owner, so I really think this a grand idea!! Thanks

I made the fabric envelope with you, and I LOVE it ... this is definitely NOT a "rubbish video" - this is a fun, informative video ... PLEASE be easier on yourself ... you are fabulous!!!

Beautiful envelopes Tina !! Nothing you do is rubbish !! You always find a beautiful solution !! That's why I watch you. You are real, you are creative and so much fun to listen to ❤❤😊

Fabric envelopes. Great idea!

Bless your little cotton socks, Tina, you really struggled here. But, please don't apologize for keeping it real; we learned while you learned. Thanks very much for just diving in and giving it a go. In the end, the envelopes are darling. ~ Lisa

Tina, what not to do is just the other side of what to do, either way you still learn the process. I for one know how you feel on a “clumsy “ day, sometimes it’s just like that. The envelopes were beautiful, putting one aside is the right thing to do when it’s not falling into place, you got there in the end. Thank you for your time and inspiration.💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

Who would have guessed we could make cloth envelopes! Amazing!

I'm so glad I found your video, now to have fun with my curtain fabric samples !

These are so cute! LOL - "Fallen down behind the desk, floating around in all manner of rubbish..." Sounds like my craft room.

I love this video. No apologies needed

Tina, unless we try, we would not know what does work. You are awesome to even try something new on camera without a trial run. You are one of my heros..

Tina quit beating yourself up for stepping up and trying something nobody else has tried. I make envelopes with my envelope maker all the time but never even considered fabric. Sooo I watched the whole thing and was interested that it worked as well as it did. You are to be commended to try something so different. You give a lot of freedom to crafters. Many of us are OCD and quite stuffy. You though are a free spirit and I for one enjoy that. Great job!

FYI: Perfect is boring! Love your videos. We all make a mess and figure it out. Your end results are beautiful! Just a note: Don’t use the punch board. Cut a square (any size), and just fold like Gi Kerr does in her DIY envelope videos. All you women are so helpful with your tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing.💜😎

I think that seeing what might be a problem or a struggle is not a bad thing. 1st, it's informative but,maybe even more valuable is to discover that nobody is perfect all the time. Thanks for that.

I love your real life videos.

I love that you share everything with us. I believe it was a success! I am inspired. Thank you!

Don't appolige, I adore all the fabric envelopes!! They are great. You did a phenomenal job, a genius idea!! 🍂🍁✌️🐞☮️💜

I too am very impatient when crafting. I put all kinds of projects in a 125F degree oven and dry them. It works wonderfully. I appreciate the “real process” fumbles and all. I’ve been making journals for just over 2 years. We all fumble.

Hey! No problem! This is the way crafting goes, good, poorly, and sometimes just plain " why am I even trying to do this?" All is well, we love your ideas !! Keep crafting, Tina

Tina I love all your projects and videos and the reason I love them best is because you don’t practice before you do them. Real crafters don’t practice we make as we go mistakes and all … but there are no mistakes only opportunities to grow our skills. It is how we learn and play. I love each project and that you share them and your family and life with us, keep up the good work! I miss hearing about what you are up to at home and work. 😊💖😊

I love that you're like me and can't wait for things to dry before moving on. It's nice to watch someone that doesn't edit everything to be perfect and shows mistakes, we all make them. This is a gorgeous project and I'll be trying it when I can, thank you

Love these envelopes!!!!

Your favorite is my favorite, it just kept getting prettier and prettier as you worked on it. Lovely.

Great video! I need to make some of these fabulous fabric envelopes!

Fun & lovely little envelopes. :) tyfs

You do great projects. You shouldn't be so down on yourself. It shows we all have things go wrong. You always pull it out and everything works out. We like watching your totorials. Thank you for being humon.

Totally love them all💕💕💕 maybe the napkin one is my fav! Great video because it shows how one can change things around and have an awesome outcome!!!!!

Tina your envelopes come out much better than mine with the same envelope gadget. Even though you hadn’t practiced you pushed through and succeeded. It would have taken me three times longer. I do love watching you everyday. Lol Here in the US your video came out about 3:00 am because I wait for my husband to come home. Thanks Tina I love your lovely accent and your videos

Thank you, Tina, great job! I cannot wait to try them😀😊☺

The fabric envelopes are lovely and my favorite one is the napkin on the fabric! Brilliant idea! On my list to try.

Thanks for sharing everything, including what not to do!! These are really cute.

I love watching your videos. Your a joy!

Tina you are so adoreable! I love watching you figuring it all out. Makes me feel better about my attempts at things. Love these envelopes and I am looking forward to trying to make them. tfs

Never apologize for trying new things on camera!!!! The fact that you go on camera is just wonderful and we learn without having to make those mistakes(we have to come up with new ones!) Love these and will be trying them soon!

I think you have an adorable sense of humor AND you are wildly talented. Such fun to watch!!

I enjoyed watching your process. Glad you took the chance and just did ir!

I would have never thought of this. I love that you turn on your camera and just go for it. I totally understand how your messy desk,(you said it first) you can find your stuff. My Daddy had a work shop shed that was 15 feet by 25 feet and if he wanted some one to get something out of the shed he could tell you exactly where it was,it amazed all of us.

Hoarding, yes; it's a function of crafting. I think, however, that it's also a function of mothering. I always imagine what I would have done if I lived in a primitive society with a bunch of kids to take care of, particularly in a matriarchal society with no guaranteed support from a man. I would be making things out of whatever was at hand and hoarding likely items for the future. It occurs to me that another way to make these envelopes is to use iron-on fabric adhesive and iron tissue paper onto the back for the inside of the envelope. They will be stiffer. Thanks for this tutorial! I admire your inventiveness and creativity. Here's to hoarding!

I love these! I love seeing you work through the process. It's so funny!

Just brilliant Tina, don’t stop making the videos. You are such a talented person. Thank you for sharing mistakes as well x

I loved the envelopes. I will have to try making some soon.

I actually understood what you said and a lot of people feel the same way and I think you're doing a beautiful job doing something you're not really excited about

This works great with liquid starch. They turn out beautiful and the pockets and envelopes you can make are endless.

Great video again. I love that you work through the process on camera. We learn by your mistakes as well as our own. It's a time saver really😁 Love the look of the envelooes💜

I absolutely love them! Thanks for the tutorial.

Hi Tina. I love your videos and especially that you dig right in without having done it before. We learn from your little struggles as well as your experience. These envelopes are adorable and I can’t wait to get started. Thank you so much.

I love the idea and keep make videos I enjoy them xxx

Greetings from Central BC Canada. I love this idea. I am going to make some tiny ones. I just got the tiny envelope punch board.

Love this idea!

My goodness Tina how cute are those , what a great idea , thanks a bunch for all you do .

I have been watching your channel nearly every day for the last six months. I love the mass making tutorials. These little envelopes are too cute. Thank you for all the wonderful ideas

These envelopes are darling!! And I love that you just jumped in and did it! Much more effective than mentioning “oh, by the way, you should let them totally dry”. I wouldn’t have paid any attention to that! Seeing you work through the ”they should’ve been totally dry”? That will stick with me!❤️

You could also cut a slit into the larger flap that is glued down so the flap that folds over slides into that slit.

You already have 200 likes on this video. You are fun to watch, please quit apologizing for yourself. You are worth more than that....😊

They turned out amazing! Stop doubting yourself. Even if everything had been a total flop, we would have all learned something. We love your genuineness and willingness to be bold and show us what to do, not to do, and/or different options. You are amazing!

Love these! Thanks for the inspiration. You could make an envelope template of card stock to trace onto the stiffened fabric.

Well done, I enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic idea. As a quilter I have tons of scraps and now have another craft idea for them. Thanks ever so much!

I love how you showed the process because we all struggle from time to time. You succeeded in the end and that’s all that matters.

Love Love Love this real video!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ It’s so refreshing to watch a real crafter and real crafting session as it unfolds!! I love the experimentation of it all!! This is exactly how I craft! Nothing completely planned out and more in the moment creating!!❤️❤️ Great Job and Gorgeous envelopes!!

Tina these turned out lovely and the video was fun and informative. You, my dear, are waaaaaaay too hard on yourself! Your videos are always great! 😘😎

Adorable 😍 envelopes

A girl after my own heart... I loved that you are showing how human you are and not everything goes perfect.. I craft the same way... Thank you for the laugh.. you are a breath of fresh air.

Oh how lovely!! TFS Fabric always adds that extra touch. I think alot of us have order our craft choas. '3-in-1' is the go to glue for me, no matter the price. My fave envie is also the black and cream flowred one

You are so cute and funny. Great job!!

I think I’ll try this by gluing paper to the back first. Thanks for the tutorial.

Wow Tina, Ijust love this video and must give it ago with my new punchboard. Ty so much I am learning so much from you xxx

Cute idea. I am going to do some.

Don’t be so hard on yourself. We all mess up. In the end though, Your envelopes are great. I will certainly making some of these. Love them

Tina the video was just fine, you are too hard on yourself. I love everything you do. The envelopes are great. Thank you for this video.💕👑

I loved this video, and it took my mind off all thats going on, I love these going to be making some with the tons of fabrics I have. I also think its important to show we all have off days and we all make mistakes, i think those things are important and didnt change from me learning, I learned a lot. Thank you for your time and sharing with us.

Fantastic. Love it thank you for sharing 👧🏻

Ah Tina these are absolutely fantastic, I’m so glad you did this video🥰 the brilliant thing about your teaching/experimenting is its realistic and also gives us the tools to prepare without the stress and grief of “I should have, I shouldn’t have” LOVE these wee envelopes, really want to make some cause I want to see what they feel like🤔 beautifully decorated as always❤️🤗 X

Awesome idea!

Thank you so much for persevering with this video as it was so useful to see the potential problems, and to see you talk through them. It is a lovely project and I am inspired by it, and as always by your handling of your teaching. We always learn lots from you and your experience. Love your channel.

Awesome video. I've had that envelope punch board forever & couldn't figure it out!! Thanks for using it!! Love the fabric ideas.

Love the fabric envelopes.

I really like your technique of using a piece of acetate to position a ModPodge napkin on your project. SO much easier than trying to brush over a rough surface without tearing the napkin! Love these envelopes, too, but that acetate technique is the thing I will be trying first. Cheers!

Love this idea/project. Lots of ways to "decorate" the fabric envelopes. Thank you for turning on your recording device.

I like that you show real life video. So we know that everyone has trouble even a more experience person has trouble sometimes. I have to keep telling myself the handmade is not perfect and sometimes you have to go to plan B or even plan C. Thank you for showing that everything you do doesn't go as planned. Big hug to you.

Just thinking, I may crease the envelopes so I know the placement, and then actually SEW the embellishments onto the fabric before folding. Your videos get my creative juices flowing!

Keeping it real! No apologies required. Great texture and lovely use of fabric. Blessings 😃

I mostly craft 'on the hoof' change my mind all the time, so loved watching this. I liked the striped envelope best.

Going to try this. Thanks for the tutorial

How cool.

Super video, Tina. Never seen these done before, a new experience for me. They look super cute, but quite difficult, but I will be giving it a bash soon-soon. Thank you for your patience in doing these little envelopes. You are such a wonderful teacher, we learn by your mistakes, and also learn so much that we have not experienced in this genre before. THANK YOU for all your hard work before hand and for the research you do so that we can enjoy what you teach us so well. Blessings and hugs. Diana

Very realistic video! Sometimes crafting is trial and error. For me perfect never happens. Love this idea. 💕

Very pretty. I would use 2 coats of mod podge to make them a little stiffer.

Awesome sauce!! I love playing with mod podge and then making an envelope. Never would've thought to do that. Thank you! I love your mass making videos.

beautiful - what a great idea

I'm a pretty new Crafter, but you come up with some extremely creative ideas. I've never heard of fabric envelopes before. I love your videos because they give me a lot of "how-to" in addition to creativity to explore with my own papers since my stash is not as expansive as yours. Thanks for all your work and sharing your ideas with all of us.

Love this idea! Oh...the napkin on the fabric! 💖 Thank you so much!

You are too hard on yourself! Your creativity is oozing out of this video and is so encouraging and inspiring to me! I really love this idea and your envelopes (bling included) were lovely. Thank you for sharing this with the world and for sharing your creative vulnerability, too. I am on vacation watching your video for "down time" and can't wait to get home to try it myself! Thank you and blessings! :)

Not disastrous we all now feel inept in our crafting thank you for moving forward

Love these and you did an amazing video, don't be so hard on yourself. Will be making these,,never seen them before.

Great 👍 will give it a try

Fabulous relations. What a great way to make envelopes. I have an envelope board lurking in my craft room as well as numerous bits of fabric. Can’t wait to try this when I can get back into my proper craft room. Thanks.

So inspiring and I personally just love the discovering as you go aspect. The finished envelopes are just FABULOUS! TFS and I added to my list of favorites.

This video was great, love the envelopes. Thank you for sharing.