Now there is a fairly large selection of wedding invitations for future newlyweds. Invitation cards can be bought ready-made in stationery stores, you can order an individual design in design studios, or you can make it yourself.
The topic of this article is original wedding invitations, respectively, we will not talk about ready-made template invitations that are sold in stores, since this option often does not differ in creativity.
So which invitation card design should you choose?
In order to decide what your wedding invitation cards will be, it is first important to think through all the details of your wedding:
Place, time and date of the wedding;
The theme of the wedding (if you decide to hold a themed wedding);
Wedding style (color and floral design of the wedding);
Groom's and bride's outfits.
What should the invitations contain?
Invitation cards are a plan of action for a guest at a wedding. The invitations should contain information about the format, time and place of the celebration. Also, invitations should inform guests about the theme of the wedding celebration so that the invitee can think over his outfit in advance if the wedding is themed.
Original do-it-yourself wedding invitations in the form of a postcard
Unusual invitations can be made in the form of a postcard. This will require thick textured paper (you can buy it at any art store), glue, curly scissors, pens. as well as ribbons, lace, beads - for decoration.
How to make such a postcard?
First you need to decide on the size of the invitation. From a sheet of A4 paper, 1-8 invitations can come out. Then choose a postcard shape. Maybe you want to make an invitation in the form of a book, or look like a regular postcard.
It is most convenient to make a layout and try on all the options. Then proceed to the manufacture of the invitations themselves.
On the outside of the card, make a beautiful inscription with a helium pen - "Wedding Invitation". Circle this inscription in silver or gold. Inside the card, write or paste the text of the invitation.
You can go for a trick: print the text on paper in a faded color, using some unusual font, and then freehand circle it in a beautiful color.
After designing the inside of the invitations, move on to the cover. There are many options: glue ribbons or bows; cover the paper with lace; make a cute flower decorate with beads or large beads.
If you use paper in two forms, then one can be used as a base, and the second can be glued on top, cutting it initially one centimeter smaller in width and length. And if you want, you can make a “window” and insert an image there, a photo of the bride or groom, a flower or a heart, decorating it with beads.
The edges of the invitation, processed with curly scissors, look nice. Also, you can glue the ribbons to the two halves of the invitation card and tie it into a bow.
Envelope wedding invitation
Another easy way to create a wedding invitation is to make a paper envelope and decorate it with decorative elements. In the envelope itself, enclose a sheet with the text of the invitation.
And in order for the leaf to be removed with ease, choose thick paper for creativity and attach a ribbon on top, for which you need to pull.
Original wedding invitations with photos
Photos of the bride and groom make wedding invitation cards more individual and unusual. Choose the best photo or ask your photographer to take a photo of you specifically for the wedding invitation.
By the way, almost every photographer knows how to work in the Photoshop program and he will not refuse your request for a nominal fee to put the text of the invitation directly on the photo.
Print the required number of photos, put them in a beautiful envelope and send them to your guests.
Wedding invitation with lace and ribbons
It is very easy to make such beautiful and delicate vintage-style invitations quickly with your own hands.
How to make a card with lace?
You will need a thick sheet of paper of the size you need. Fold it in half.
Glue the edge of the sheet with lace, stick a bow that you make from ribbon
Write the text inside the card. Choose the design of the invitation for your wedding dress.
Master class: invitation card with a heart and notes
If your wedding is planned in a dance style, then such an invitation is exactly what you need.
So, we make a card with a heart. Step-by-step instruction:
To create a postcard with notes, you need cardboard, a piece of fabric for a wedding dress, ribbons and flowers.
Make an envelope out of a sheet of thin cardboard.
Sew a "pouch" of fabric. It should be the same size as the envelope.
Put the envelope in the "pouch" and fix the fabric with glue.
Draw a heart on the note picture and cut it out.
Glue the heart onto the fabric.
Make a bow out of a satin ribbon and attach it to the envelope with glue or white thread.
Fix the flower arrangement.
Cut out a heart from colored paper large enough so that it can "hide" in the envelope.
On this heart, write the text of the invitation.
Glue a thin ribbon with one end to the colored heart, and with the other to the inside of the envelope.
Put the heart with the text of the invitation inside the envelope.
Your wedding invitation is ready.
Original wedding invitations in the form of a handmade scroll
Invitations in the form of a scroll look very non-standard. Here it is better to use thinner A4 sheets than in the versions described in this article.
After you write the text, carefully twist the sheet and tie it with a wide ribbon of a contrasting color. Lace will work too.
To decorate a scroll with your own hands, use everything you find in needlework stores: bows, ready-made appliqués, flowers, beads, threads with beads, rivets, lace fabric, etc.
Video-MK: Making an invitation in the form of a scroll
poster invitation card
The unique style of these invitation cards will impress any guest. Invited guests will definitely visit your "premier".
Envelope with wedding date
Make a simple postal envelope out of colored paper. Cut out the numbers from the same color paper with scissors - i.e. your wedding date. Attach the numbers to the ribbon and glue it to the envelope. Hide the date inside the envelope. A very beautiful and unusual wedding invitation will come out.
See even more options for wedding invitations in the article -
Quilling wedding invitation
Quilling invitations look especially beautiful. Do you want to make such a masterpiece for your wedding with your own hands?
For work you will need:
White thick paper with a density of 250 g / m2 - 1 sheet;
Thin paper for stripes - 1 sheet. (You can buy a special ready-made quilling kit)
Colored paper for scrapbooking - 1 sheet;
For decor: satin ribbon, beads;
Scissors, glue, stationery knife, pencil, ruler, and a special quilling tool.
Progress of work in stages:
Step 1: Cut out a 20x15 cm rectangle from heavy paper and fold it in half in the middle. You will get a double base for a 10 × 15 postcard. Then, from colored paper, cut out a figure measuring 9.5 × 14.5.
According to a well-known saying, the theater begins with a hanger, and wedding invitations are considered the beginning of the celebration of marriage. Photo and video tutorials from professionals will help you create mini-masterpieces. These paper invitations are far from trifles, but a small prehistory of a great bright future, the face of your future holiday. You can, of course, get by with beautiful ready-made samples from the printing house, but imagine how surprised and delighted the guests will be when they find not stamped postcards, but messages with an embedded piece of soul! In this article, we will tell you all the secrets of creating wedding invitations and.
DIY wedding invitations. Where to begin?
First you need to think about the general theme and nuances. Usually, for each wedding, a certain theme is chosen, which sets the interiors, outfits and invitations. Having decided on the idea, it is worth working out templates that will help simplify the process and quickly produce messages for a large number of people.
Wedding invitations. Templates
Let's go from simple to complex: let's start with a handmade postcard in an envelope. We buy a set of beautiful paper, form identical books from sheets, paint them in the theme, write the text inside. In order to facilitate the task, you can take a dense rubber sponge, cut the necessary patterns in it, dip it in ordinary black ink and stamp different lines in the same places (see photo).
Advice! Stationery stores sell ready-made beautiful stamps that you can purchase and use them in the design of a postcard.
In this case, it is better to choose a contrasting option - black with white or white with red, etc. The main thing is the content; against the background of external simplicity, the text should win.
Chic, shine, beauty
On the one hand, this is the lexicon of Ellochka-cannibals from "12 chairs", on the other hand, sometimes you really want extravaganza. In this case, once in a lifetime, rhinestones, feathers, silk ribbons, etc. will not be damaged. We cut, glue, write - here you no longer have to think through the text very carefully, it will still be overshadowed by the luxury of the radiance of the outside. A short and catchy line is enough, something like "Vasya and Katya invite you to the best wedding ball of the 21st century."
Simplicity can be original - consider a sort of 3D version of invitations.
From flat standards to volume
- Magic boxes. Today, many budget stores sell different-sized plain gift cardboard boxes. This is a great material to start magic. It remains to buy satin ribbons, sets for with various figures - ladybugs, flowers, hearts, etc. on a self-adhesive film. A couple of evenings - and a stack of invitations is ready; now it remains to type on the computer with the chosen one, print or write by hand the text. We put them in boxes and hand them to the addressees - to help us, the Russian Post, personal transport or courier service.
Advice! If you send invitations by Russian mail, do it in advance, taking into account a possible weekly delay. If you can't afford a courier service, you can include several friends in your personal vehicles in the delivery process under the strictest secrecy condition.
- Funny bottles. Many couples choose to have their wedding outdoors. If you are planning to get married near the sea or an ordinary river, use the idea with invitations in the form. Decorative glass containers are also sold in many budget stores. Some of them at an inexpensive price look like a work of art. It remains to write invitations, roll them up into a tube, put them inside, put a few decorative starfish, “pearls” there for beauty - and voila! happy sailing to the addressees.
- White glove. Borrowing the idea with socks for Santa Claus, we sew the simplest satin mittens like pot holders, only thin and small. We embroider with rhinestones, mini-flowers and other decorative elements. Inside we put scrolls with the text “We entrust to your kind hands the atmosphere of our most important for, you are invited to the wedding there and at such and such”.
- Unexpected sweetness. A simple and at the same time brilliant idea - personalized cupcakes with hearts. We buy these mini-cakes, put invitations and send them to friends. The only negative: this option is only suitable for residents of one city.
- Thanks for the chocolate. Having bought good chocolate in bulk, you can remove the factory wrapper from it and replace it with the image of your happy couple and the date and venue of the wedding.
- Charming bags. Organza came to us from the East, but fell in love with all countries of the world. For original invitations, it is enough to buy a few meters of organza and sew small bags. The costs are minimal, but how much delight the iridescent fabric causes!
- Surprise sweets. You can buy multi-colored gift wrapping and arrange invitations like funny sweets by tying the ends with bows.
- Enough heart for everyone. Option for needlewomen: a dense fabric such as felt is bought, marked and cut in the form of a puzzle, a word is embroidered on each of them, as a result, a single inscription or picture is drawn up. This is an exciting game for adults! Such a heart can be placed at the entrance on a large table, and each guest will have to bring a piece to make a whole composition.
Advice! If you took the heart-puzzle for the invitation idea, take the time to duplicate it, because one of the guests may forget or lose the invitation. Duplicates will help to realize the conceived idea without incidents.
Unusual wedding invitations with your own hands
Modern trends have not been left aside, and today interesting ideas with fashionable names have come to us from different countries. Do you want to surprise? Try or scrapbooking.
quilling
This is the art of decorating something with paper stripes. The whole secret lies in twisting them in a certain way.
You will need:
- two sheets of paper - thick and thin;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- glue;
- stationery scissors;
- pencil;
- colored paper;
- quilling tool;
- half beads;
- satin ribbon.
Advice! It is much more convenient to buy a ready-made quilling kit than to assemble it yourself in parts.
Progress:
- We cut thin identical strips, about 15 pieces for each of the cards. We turn “rolls” out of them with a quilling tool. We fix one tip, and wind the second on the tool. We fix the free edge with glue.
- In parallel, glue colored paper for the background on hard paper, attach flowers to a postcard, make leaves. If the finished "roll" is flattened on both sides, you get a sheet.
- We attach beads to the middle of the flowers, fold a bow from a satin ribbon and also glue it. You can additionally decorate according to your taste with auxiliary details.
- There is a simpler, but no less beautiful option. We draw a branch on the sheet, frame it with braid along the contour, twist the hearts, fasten it and get a branch with wedding hearts.
old scroll
Lovers of relics and antiques can make a wedding invitation in the form of an ancient papyrus rolled into a tube.
Invitation-papyri look quite mysterious, because unfolding aged paper, we seem to be touching something eternal
A wedding invitation is an essential element of a wedding.
If you think about it, the invitation is the first thing your guests will see, which means that this part of the ceremony is very important, as it will create first impression of guests.
Of course, today there are many ready-made colorful invitations that you just need to fill out and send out to guests.
And yet, handmade invitations have special charm, they can delight and surprise. In them you can invest all your fantasy and guests will remember for a long time original ideas that you brought in your postcard.
Below are a few options for wedding invitations. You can make just such invitations, or take advice and come up with something of your own.
You can also pay attention to examples of various invitations and draw some interesting ideas.
DIY wedding invitations.
Simple, original, beautiful.
You will need:
Thick paper (2 shades)
Double-sided tape
Printer
Stationery knife.
Purchase paper in 2 different colors for the inside and outside of the invitation.
The pictures show paper with a density of 230 g/m.
The ribbon used on this invitation is 7 mm wide.
1. Choose one of the shades for the main (outer) part of the card and cut it to make a 12*12 cm square.
* You can use a utility knife and a metal ruler to cut paper.
2. Put the squares aside for a while and prepare A4 paper. Draw a design on it by hand or make a drawing on a computer, and then print it out.
In the picture, the design is made on a computer and printed on a printer on both sides. Next, you need to cut it out.
* You can draw your drawing on thick A4 paper. Divide the paper into 3 equal parts and fold it as shown in the picture. On the left side you can write the name of the invited person(s), on the right side the name of the heroes of the occasion, and in the middle directly the text of the invitation itself.
* To make it more convenient to bend thick paper, you need to draw a spoon at the place of the future fold, putting a ruler to the fold in advance (see picture).
3. Cut 2 pieces of 15 cm from a long tape. Prepare double-sided tape and stick a small piece of it to the right edge of one tape and the left edge of the other. Next, simply glue your pieces of tape to the square base (see picture).
4. It's time to glue our 12x12 squares to the base. To do this, you can use tapes of double-sided tape, as shown in the picture, or simply PVA glue, applying it to the edges of the square.
5. Now it remains only to tie a bow and that's it.
You can stick the ribbons into the bead as in the picture. For you to do this, you need to make a few efforts:
Prepare 2 pieces of thread (preferably nylon) and fold them in half.
Pass the threads through the bead from different sides, one loop on the left, the other on the right
Insert a ribbon into one loop and try to pull it out, while not forgetting to hold the second loop through the bead
Do the same with the second tape.
Tie a bow.
How to make a romantic wedding invitation
You will need:
Heavy paper
Braid decorative braided
Decorations (in this case, sewn-on flowers)
Gold marker (preferably with a calligraphic tip)
1. Cut out the card size and shape you want from paper. Postcards can be either vertical or horizontal, or they can be square, as in the previous example. In this example, a horizontal postcard.
2. Use a piece of construction paper to make a heart template and trace around it on the front.
3. Glue a braided braid along the contour of the "heart".
4. Mark the front side of the invitation with a gold marker. You can make curls, flowers or something else.
5. In the center of the "heart" make an inscription, for example "Wedding Invitation".
6. You can start decorating your invitation. In this example, decorative roses are used.
DIY wedding invitations. Romantic style. Option 2.
You will need:
Heavy paper
Braid decorative braided
Sequins in a ribbon
Gold marker
Glue is universal.
1. Your invitation is made in the same way as in the first option, but before you glue the braided braid to the card, you need to glue the sequins on the ribbon.
Do it as shown in the picture, slightly retreating from the contour of the "heart" inward by 1 cm.
2. Glue braided tape along the contour.
This option does not use decorative roses.
Handmade wedding invitations
You will need:
Heavy paper
Tracing paper for drawing
regular scissors
Embossed scissors
Hole puncher
1. Cut a regular sheet of thick A4 paper in half.
2. Take one half of the sheet and wrap its edges towards the center.
3. Create a pattern with embossed scissors and cut off the top corners.
4. Prepare a thick paper of a different color and cut a rectangle out of it.
5. Type or write the text and stick the paper containing it to the base.
6. Insert your wedding invitation into an envelope.
7. Make 2 holes in the envelope with a hole punch and tie with a thin ribbon as shown in the picture. With this method, you attach the wedding invitation to the envelope.
The simplest envelope can be made from a square sheet of paper, folding the corners to the center. To do this, you will need a square sheet of paper of the desired size, a ruler and a pencil.
1) Check the very center of the sheet point, measuring the distance to it with a ruler.
2) Fold the left and right sides inward so that the corners touch central point.
3) Then fold the bottom side up so that it covers the center and can be glued to two already bent corners.
4) Apply glue to the bottom sides of the envelope as shown in the photo. You can also use double sided tape.
5) Fold the top corner down. The envelope is ready! This envelope can be made in just a couple of minutes. It is based on the simple principle of adding angles. Here are a few more schemes for making envelopes from sheets of various shapes:
Rhombus Envelope
Envelope from the heart
Envelope with a square
Beautiful handmade envelope
To make your envelope look beautiful and original, it can be made from several types of colored paper. The easiest way to decorate an envelope is to use different types of paper for the outside and inside.
For work you will need:
- 2 sheets of colored paper
- An old envelope as a template (optional)
- Double sided tape or glue
- Ruler and pencil
- Scissors
Let's get to work:
1) Cut out from a sheet of colored paper blank for the outer side of the envelope. To do this, you can use a ready-made template, or draw a template yourself with a ruler and pencil. Choose the size of the envelope at your discretion, depending on what you are going to put in it.
2) From another sheet of colored paper, cut blank for the inside of the envelope.
3) The inner part should correspond in size to the outer one, but should be slightly smaller so that it can be easy to stick inside.
4) Using adhesive tape or glue, paste internal detail.
5) Bend the edges of the envelope inward and seal them so that so that the glue does not get into the inside.
Envelope templates
With this template you can make envelopes from colored cardboard:
By adding a ribbon, you will get envelopes for different occasions: for greeting cards, money, invitations, etc.
Sample long envelope:
envelope template on sheet A4:
Can decorate envelopes colored lace or appliqués:
Can be used beads and threads to close the envelope:
Envelopes are sometimes decorated with various paper details made in various techniques: origami, quilling, scrapbooking, etc.
Do-it-yourself envelopes for money
What could be more banal gift in the form of money but sometimes it's the only thing that comes to mind. To make your gift original, you can place it in handmade envelope. The envelope can be beautifully decorated and signed like a postcard.
Envelopes for money are usually made of cardboard and have an elongated shape so that the bill could fit in it completely. You can draw templates yourself or use ready-made templates:
Envelopes for money (templates):
Here are some helpful ideas on how to make and decorate money envelopes that will become great gifts along with their content.
Gift envelope for money
Are you going to a birthday, wedding, christening or other event? Then you need an envelope for money! This original handmade gift will surely please your loved ones.
Option 1:
This simple money bag can be made from colored paper in several colors and satin ribbons. It looks very festive, and its manufacture will not take you much time.
For work you will need:
- 2 sheets of colored paper (one with a pattern, the other plain)
- Glue
- Ruler and pencil
- Satin ribbons in 2 colors 1 cm and 0.5 cm wide
- Matches or lighter
- Scissors
Let's get to work:
1) Cook paper and tape so that they are combined with each other in color. The author of this master class used to make an envelope ordinary wallpaper, the trimmings of which remained after the repair.
Before starting work, measure the desired size of the envelope, its width and length. In this case, a rectangle of plain paper was used. measuring 20 by 40 centimeters. Fold a sheet of paper with the edges inward in the center, as shown in the photo:
2) Fold sides inward towards the center.
3) Unfold the sides and fold the corners in the form of a triangle.
4) Unfold the envelope and stick a rectangle of colored paper measuring 20 by 23 centimeters in the center of a sheet of plain paper.
5) Bend superfluous inside the envelope.
6) Side corners in the form of triangles stick with glue to the bottom of the envelope.
7) Satin ribbon 1 centimeter wide glue in the center on the back and front of the envelope, leaving the ends to make bow.
8) Stick a narrow tape over the wide one 0.5 cm wide, also leaving the ends for the bow.
9) Finish the ends of the tape fire so that it doesn't fall apart.
10) Tie ribbons bow. Your original money envelope is ready.
Option 2:
Envelopes for money or for other surprises can be made not only from paper, but also from fabric. We invite you to learn how to make an original gift felt envelope, in which you can put money, or a gift discount card.
For work you will need:
- Several small sheets of colored felt
- Thick wool knitting thread
- Buttons
- Glue
- Ruler and pencil
- Needle
- Pins
- Scissors
Let's get to work:
1) Using a pencil and a ruler, measure the width of the future envelope depending on what you put in it. If it will be a discount card, attach it to the felt and measure from both sides. 1 cm for the seam.
2) Cut off rectangular piece of felt, then bend the lower part of it and pin it with pins. Insert a card inside to find the size of the lid.
3) Cut off everything from the top superfluous.
4) Finish the edges with threads, making U-stitches. Threads are better to use a contrasting color.
5) Cut out green felt three small trees or any other details.
6) Stick Christmas trees with the back of the outer side of the envelope. Sew small buttons on the tops of the trees.
7) From the outside of the front of the envelope at the bottom sew on a button, and attach to the edge of the lid threads so that the envelope can be closed and tied with a bow.
envelope for money scrapbooking
This scrapbooking envelope is easy to make at home using paper-cut parts. scrapbooking- a technique for decorating albums for photographs, as well as various other products using paper applications, beads, etc.
For work you will need:
- White cardboard (23 by 23 centimeters)
- Colored paper (23 by 20 centimeters)
- Colored paper of a different shade or pattern (8 by 14 centimeters)
- Plain thin white paper or thin lace
- Satin ribbon 35 cm long
- Details for jewelry (butterflies, rhinestones, beads, etc.)
- Glue
- Ruler and pencil
- Matches or lighter
- Sewing machine and thread
- Scissors
Let's get to work:
1) Using the prepared template, cut out from white cardboard blank for the future envelope.
2) Cut out from colored paper two rectangular blanks, which will match the tops of the envelope. The preparations must be a few millimeters smaller base so that they can be easily glued and that they do not go beyond the edges.
3) Cut out paper of a different color two more blanks of the same width, but shorter - this will be the middle of your envelope.
4) On the sides of these parts, glue lace frill. You can use paper lace or very thin lace ribbons.
5) Glue the details with lace to larger color parts.
6) Glue all the details to outside of the envelope on the outer main cover and on the inner cover. Then go over the edge on the sewing machine zigzag stitch. You can also stick a colored part on the back of the envelope, and then process it on a sewing machine.
7) Before gluing the colored part to the reverse side, insert between the part and the base satin ribbon.
8) Tie the front of the ribbon with a bow and glue on the outside over the ribbon white paper rectangle with an inscription.
9) Finishing touch: decoration additional details.
DIY wedding envelope
The best gift for a wedding is money that can be placed in beautiful handmade envelope.
For work you will need:
- A sheet of white thick paper A4
- Light colored paper
- Decorative cord
- Lace Ribbon
- A piece of thin translucent fabric
- Details for jewelry (flowers made of fabric or paper, pendant in the form of a key, beads, etc.)
- Double sided tape
- Ruler and pencil
- Sewing machine and thread
- Glue
- Scissors (regular and curly)
Let's get to work:
1) If your colored paper is not very thick, stick it on a sheet of white paper A4 size and let dry well.
2) Using the template provided or any other template, draw on the back of the sheet contours of the future envelope and make a cut. The folds are indicated by the blue dotted line.
3) Cut out the pattern. You can use curly scissors.
4) Bend all the edges of the pattern inward. Glue on the bottom cover stripe lace by folding the edges inwards. After that, glue the bottom cover to the sides with double sided tape.
5) Cut a rectangle out of white thick paper 17 by 8.5 centimeters.
6) Cut off a piece of paper to look like this triangular shape:
7) Wrap the piece of paper translucent fabric, fasten on the back with tape and sew on a typewriter on the front side with a zigzag seam.
8) Prepare all decorations: tie ribbons and cords with a bow, make a flower from a transparent fabric, attach a lace to the part in the form of a key.
9) Glue the lace ribbon at the top of the part, grabbing the lace, which will be wrapped around the envelope, so leave a suitable length for this. Glue decorations to the lower triangular edge of the part.
10) For reliability, go through the line along glued lace tape.
11) Glue the part to outer side of the lid envelope.
12) Wedding envelope for money is ready! Inside it will look like this:
Money in an envelope: original ideas
With the envelope design, you can place money in different ways. Here are some ideas to help you make original envelopes. For example, you can use postcard, inside which paste a small envelope with money. You can write wishes on the card, and, looking inside, the recipient will find there cash gift.
Another option is to make an envelope also in the form of a postcard, and inside attach satin ribbons to hold bills.
Envelope book. This original idea will appeal to those who would like to learn how to save money. You can make some simple envelopes and sign them, indicating the purpose for which the money is stored in them and the time when they can be spent.
DIY Envelope
Compact discs require careful handling, so it is best to place them in special cases, boxes, envelopes, or store them in a disc album. You can do simple envelopes for discs independently from paper.
For work you will need:
- Sheet of A4 paper
-Glue
Let's get to work:
1) Place the disc at the bottom of the sheet.
2) Fold the sides of the sheet in straight lines using the disk as a guide.
3) Bend the disc up with the paper by flipping it over to the other side.
4) Wrap the top, closing the disc inside the envelope.
5) Pull the disc out of the envelope and glue internal details so that there is a pocket for the disk.
6) Fold down and in lid corners.
7) Insert the cover inside the pocket.
8) The easiest CD sleeve is ready!
If you want to do congratulatory CD envelope, then you can use the previous tips for making envelopes, just make the envelope large enough to fit the disc. Here a few examples original gift envelopes for CDs:
