My crazy wedding project: pocketfold wedding invitations

Once upon a time, I said I would never make pocketfold envelopes.

Screen cap from Weddingbee

Please notice that was August of last year, mere days from when I placed our invitation order. A few weeks later, they arrived. The white mailing envelopes were not overly sturdy, and I was a bit concerned that our invites would get damaged in the mailing process.

What to do? The obvious was to get a new mailing envelope or to better protect the invitation. I debated making pocketfolds for weeks. After talking with Mac, I decided to go for it. Weddingbee’s Mrs. Teacup and Mrs. Deviled Egg had great tutorials, and I based our crafting off of theirs. Some thorough searching led me to Paper and More.

Ordering the paper for your pocketfold wedding invitations

• Decide on a paper color or pattern. I printed out the cardstock description of several colors and compared them to our invites. We opted for the Sunset Orange color to coordinate with our invitation suite.
• Determine what size cardstock you need and order enough paper.  Our invites were about 5×7, so we used 12×12 paper. We ordered 3 50-packs of cardstock to make enough pocketfolds for 140 invitations.
• Gather more supplies than you think you could ever use. I invested in a scoring board, a bone folder, a corner rounder, a paper cutter, and tape runners. Overbuy tape runners. You will use them again.

How to assemble the pocketfold wedding invitations

1. Verify the invite size. As I mentioned, ours weren’t exactly 7×5. I went with 8×12 to make sure the pocketfold was larger.
2. Trim the 12×12 sheet down to 8×12. Save the 4×12 section to make your pockets.
3. Score the 8×12 sheet at 2.5″ and at 7.5.” I marked my scoring board with Sharpie for convenience.
4. Fold the scored lines with a bone folder for nice, crisp lines.
5. Round all corners.
6. Take your 4×12 scrap to make the pocket. Cut it down to 4×5. Score at 0.5″ and 3.5.” Fold these lines with the bone folder.
7. Turn the paper 90 degrees and score at 0.5″ to create the bottom seam. Miter your corners by cutting across the score lines.
8. Run the tape runner along each of the half inch seams. Center the pocket on the right fold and press down.

Sorry this picture sucks.

 

I used a different color so you could see it.

You’re done!

I basically followed Mrs. Deviled Egg’s post from Weddingbee. If you noticed, we made a bottom envelope, not a side one.