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okay every single time I ask people what tutorials they want from me this one is in the top three envelope addressing [Music] hand Becca with a happy ever crafter and in this video I'm gonna walk you through the basics of envelope addressing in this one we're not doing anything fancy we're just doing three really simple envelope addressing techniques you're gonna learn how to do one left justified one right justified and one most importantly centered now the other thing is I also have a free envelope addressing template for you so before we get started make sure you grab that down below and let's jump right in alright first things first I often get asked about the rules with the post office for what you're allowed to do on envelopes when you're getting a little bit fancy now in a future episode when we get a little bit more fancy with our envelopes and start putting some more decoration on them I'm gonna go over some more of the rules that the post office has in this episode specifically since we're doing some pretty basic envelope addressing there's only really two things that I want to mention the first one is to make sure that your address is stay legible and I know that feels pretty like duh but sometimes it can get a little bit fuzzy when you are doing calligraphy for both the name and the address so when you're doing calligraphy envelopes the best practice is to do your name in calligraphy but then do the rest of the address in block letters and that's gonna save you from the hassle of maybe the post person doesn't know how to read calligraphy they can still get the address without maybe knowing the person's first name and last name the second is just to make sure that you leave room in the top right of your envelope for stamps or for the post offices sticker so I know that that also seems pretty good but a lot of people get carried away with big calligraphy names and then it ends up getting covered over with stamps so you can either put like a little sticker there as you're working or you can just kind of remember approximately the size of a stamp that you're going to need in that top corner for now those are the only two rules to remember so now we can actually start addressing these envelopes the next thing we need to talk about is tools for the envelopes themselves I always get asked the type of paper and what type of paper to look for and my simple answer is that you can write on whatever is given to you by the client or whatever you have already or whatever you find at the store the only difference with how to deal with them is going to be what tools you use on the envelopes so it's better to look for the tools for writing as opposed to looking for the perfect envelope I generally try to stick to using my tombow food inosuke pen which is my favorite pen to use and that's what i'm going to be using in this video it's just a nice small tip black pen and it sort of mimics the look of what pointed pen calligraphy would look like so you can make it look really fancy or you can make it look really modern for me I keep one or two of these on hand all the time and I just keep them aside apart from the rest of my pens just knowing that they will probably get a little bit frayed from using them on less than perfect paper types for these envelopes I have a video about paper types up here if you haven't ever learned anything about that you might want to check that out if I'm working with an envelope type that's like really really gritty sometimes craft paper envelopes might be like that sometimes a client might give you like a linen envelope or something that's toothy they call it I actually usually just default to using a pen like this micron these are not brush pens they're just normal felt-tip pens and you can use whatever pens you want but if they're not brush pens then you don't run the risk of them getting frayed so you can just use these and do faux calligraphy and if you don't know what faux clicker fee is again I have another video for that up here so long story short for the envelopes in this video and for my standard I usually just use whatever envelopes I have hanging around at ombo food or no suitcase and a micron pen for this video you're also going to want a pencil and eraser a ruler lastly make sure you've grabbed this free envelope template I just printed mine out and then I traced it and put it on to some harder cardstock paper so this is like a nice thick cardstock paper and you will be able to use this over and over again so make sure you've prepped that before we jump in and I also have actually one more secret weapon but I'm not going to show it to you yet it'll make more sense when we actually start working through this okay so again in this video I'm gonna walk you through my process for doing envelopes with a calligraphy first and last and then block lettered address underneath and so it's nothing fancy but I definitely want you to be able to grasp the basics of doing a left justified address so this one's lined up on the left a right justified address lined up on the right and then most importantly and most frequently asked a centered and address so I'm gonna walk you through each of these and my tips and tricks for all of them the first thing I do every time no matter what is I take a scrap piece of paper and a pencil and I write out the first name and the last name of the person that I'm addressing this to in my calligraphy so it doesn't have to be your perfect calligraphy just kind of the general shape of your calligraphy so you can see it so this first name that I'm gonna do is Kate Hodge so I just write that out in calligraphy okay the reason that I do this is because now I can really clearly see where there's a D sender that's gonna interfere with my address so looking at this name Kate Hodge it's pretty clear to me that I either want the address to be centered or I want it to be left-justified and because we're trying to show different versions here I'm gonna do left justified for this first one so there aren't any descenders along here that are gonna interfere with my lettering so that's what I'll choose for this one the next name that I'm gonna do is Mary Jaime's so I'm gonna write that name out again again this can be really messy it doesn't have to be fancy but with this one now I'm seeing that I have a descender pretty much in the middle of my name so this one feels pretty clear to me that it should be right justified over here okay so the first one left justified the second one right justified and then the last name that I'm doing is Sarah Brown okay and with this one I can see that there are no D senders so I can really put this one wherever I want I'm gonna do this one centered so those are the three examples that I'm going to show but essentially I do this every time no matter how many names I'm doing I always write them all out in calligraphy first or just look at them if you're really experienced you'll be able to understand and know right off the bat where the descenders would be but this is really fool to figure out what orientation to do and if you're doing a stack of like 500 wedding envelopes they don't all have to be right justified left justified or center they don't all have to match you can mix and match this depending on the person's name no one really ever tells you that you always kind of assume that they all have to be the exact same but unless the client requests that specifically I find this really helpful to do my next tip is to always work from the bottom up when you're working in calligraphy that way you're gonna know exactly how much room your address is going to take and you're not going to run out of room and you're also gonna leave room for your stamp at the top and your calligraphy is the part that's gonna vary depending on how much room you have on your address on your envelope so if you've printed off the envelope template like I have and you've cut it out you can just put this right over top and this is gonna help you with your address now you have the exact same spacing for all of your block letters in these lines and that center line is gonna tell you where the middle of the envelope is now if you're using an envelope that is not this exact size it's totally fine too you can either use a ruler and a pencil to mark out your lines and to measure everything out beforehand just do it in pencil really lightly so you can erase it afterwards or let's say you had a really big envelope you could just move this around wherever you want it these lines are what matter that they're all equally spaced so as long as you put them where you want them on the envelope it's fine so you could even put it angled like this whatever you want to do for these ones specifically though for me I want to move this down a little bit and the reason is if you look at this template you'll notice that that top one is a little bit bigger and then the bottom three are smaller and that's because the top one is technically for the person's name now if you're not doing calligraphy if you're just doing block letters this is perfect you can leave it exactly where it is but if you're doing calligraphy might actually want to move the template down a little bit so that you're closer to the bottom and it leaves you more room for your calligraphy so I'm gonna line this up fairly close to the bottom here and just hold it in place now again the first name I'm doing is Kate Hodge and I'm doing her address while left-justified so this one is pretty straightforward you're just gonna start at the left and work your way to the right so I'm just gonna go jump in and write her address left-justified one thing I often get asked about with this is how to get better block letters I went to school for this not for block letters but in school I had to learn very precise block letters and so if you need help with that I've actually filmed a video with my best tips for getting better block lettering and I'll link to it up above for you then once you have your address written on in pencil you can see exactly how much room you're going to have left for your calligraphy name now at this point you're gonna take your ruler and draw yourself a guideline wherever you want it along here and then you can just start using your pencil to write out the person's name and whatever size you want to for me though this is where my secret weapon comes in because I don't necessarily love putting pencil marks on my page so I have what's called a laser level this is just from the hardware store it's just a really simple laser level it's called a Johnson hotshot and I'll link to it down below but any laser level is fine and the great part about this is it's just gonna shoot a straight line right across you can measure points on either side of the envelope if you want but I just eyeball it and instead of drawing a pencil line on there I just follow this line and there you have it so that's pretty much exactly what I want it to look like now if you wanted to do anything fancy you've got a bit of room down here so you could even take your G and you know put a flourish on it or something like that so that it fills up that space I'm not a huge flourishing person so I'm just gonna go ahead and take that out of there and again in future videos I'm going to show you a little bit more of embellishments so you would maybe even put like some florals or something down there but for now I'm pretty happy with this the one thing that I don't really love is that there's a tiny bit more space over here then over here so I'm just gonna do something really simple and take that front part of the K and make it a little longer just really tiny tweaks to make it perfect and then once you're happy with it just go over it in pen you'll notice that I'm sort of going over this again this is just because I'm using a very small tip pen and I want it to look a little bit more bold so I'm just carefully going over the edges here one more time this is totally optional style choice then of course once you're finished doing that you can just erase any pencil marks that might be showing through and there you have your left justified envelope this is definitely the easiest one next we're gonna do the right justified envelope so this one we're gonna line up sort of similar closer to the bottom like not having it perfectly centered as it would be if you just fit it right to the envelope same thing as the last one we're gonna move it closer to the bottom but this time we're working from the right over and so for this one you're actually gonna write backwards with block letters that's not actually very hard because you're still writing the exact same way you're just writing it in the opposite direction so it helps to have the address written out in front of you so you can just look at the letters instead of having to spell it backwards in your head but we're essentially doing the exact same thing so for this one this is for my friend Mary Mary is fake but yeah I'm gonna start from the right and move over so all you're doing is writing the address the exact same way from the back with this one you might end up having to do a little bit of erasing so you want to write really lightly with your pencil so now I'm gonna do the name and the same thing as before I'm going to use my laser level but if you don't have one you can just use a pencil line and that's it for the right justified okay the last one is by far the most difficult and it's hands-down the most common question I get about envelope addressing and that is centering my number one tip for centering addresses is to actually print out a copy of the address and use the centering function on your computer to see how the letters should line up so this is just a thought that sorta looks like my block letters and I have centered it on the computer and printed it out so I can keep it as a reference beside me you can measure it out with your ruler if you want to and mark where the centre line is or you can just eyeball it but it's really helpful to be able to see sort of which letters and numbers stack on top of each other to get them to be perfectly centered so I'm going to keep this off to the side while I'm working on this centering with this one I actually want you to start your address in the middle so I'm gonna start with 2150 Johnson Street and I know that about here is the middle so my H this the right side of my H should line up perfectly with that center line so I'm going to start that right here and then I'm going to do the rest of my word around it and with posts postal codes or zip codes I'm in Canada so it's called the postal code but with zip codes if you're doing a u.s. sip code it's always five digits which means that Center one is always going to land in the middle so you can actually if you wanted this to be spread out a little bit more you could do that to just start with the five in the middle and then the other numbers are gonna go on either end and they're always going to be five digits so that's pretty easy for centering all right so that's my number one hack for centering your addresses now centering is not always going to be that simple let's say you were doing calligraphy words that would be a lot harder but it ends up just getting kind of it's kind of something you just get used to and you start to eyeball things a little bit better and you know how big your lettering is specifically what's helpful is just always having a center line so you know exactly where that is and you can write it out on a scrap piece of paper first and figure out exactly how big your writing is going to be and how the letters would stack then for the name I'm gonna do the exact same thing as before use my laser level and this one is for Sarah Brown and there's your centroid version so now you know how to do left justified right justified and centered in my next version my envelopes 2.0 video which will come soon I'm gonna do a lot more embellishment things like how to add banners how to add florals all that kind of stuff and how to kind of fill up space if you notice that there's any big bald spots so for example on this mary jane mise one I would probably add like a fun banner or something on here and it just kind of adds a little bit of oomph to your envelope addressing so again if you haven't grabbed that envelope template it's linked down below that's gonna be key you can also make your own so if you're doing a stack of like 500 envelopes and they're all gonna meet address the exact same way it's really helpful to make one of these but I hope this gave you a good overview and give you some good tips for doing left justified right justified and mostly centered and again I am gonna do a 2.0 video and I put out two new tutorials every single week so make sure you hit the subscribe button down below and don't leave without downloading your free envelope template and I'll see you next time