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title: 'Best Out of Waste - Festive Envelopes from Old Wedding Cards |  DIY'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y5TMcrsCiQc'
video_id: 'Y5TMcrsCiQc'
date: 2026-07-27
duration_sec: 655
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# Best Out of Waste - Festive Envelopes from Old Wedding Cards |  DIY

> Source: [Best Out of Waste - Festive Envelopes from Old Wedding Cards |  DIY](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y5TMcrsCiQc)

## Summary

This DIY tutorial demonstrates how to create five unique festive envelopes using old wedding cards, transforming waste into beautiful gift holders for occasions like Diwali and Lohri. The host walks through step-by-step processes for each design, emphasizing that anyone can replicate these using simple materials.

### Key Points

- **Upcycling Wedding Cards** [00:02] — The video starts with the idea of using old wedding cards to make unique envelopes instead of boring ones, especially for the festive season.
- **Jharokha Style Envelope** [00:43] — A window-like design is created on a standard envelope by cutting a window and adding a door, using golden accents and lace for decoration.
- **Dholak (Drum) Envelope** [02:51] — Two paper cups are covered with wedding card paper, a pocket is cut for money, and a string is added to mimic a dholak. Decorative lace is used.
- **Kite-Like Envelope** [05:00] — A square envelope is folded with a cut design on top, featuring a kite-like flap. Decorated with cut mirrors from It's Bits, a craft store.
- **Diya (Lamp) Envelope** [07:05] — A circular envelope is folded into a semi-circle wallet shape, decorated to resemble a diya with lace and mirrors, perfect for Diwali gifts.
- **Handbag Envelope** [08:46] — An envelope shaped like a handbag with a handle, featuring a plastic kalash (pot) decoration. Money is placed inside the bag.
- **Parting Tips** [10:43] — The creator suggests making additional diyas from leftover cards and encourages viewers to share which design they liked best.

### Conclusion

The video provides creative, eco-friendly envelope designs that can be easily made from old wedding cards, adding a personal touch to festive gifting. Viewers are inspired to reuse materials and explore their own creativity.

## Transcript

old wedding cards will be used, where are you going to distribute them, oh Mannu, these are not my wedding cards that I will go around distributing them, look the festive season is coming, so look the festive season is coming, so
how boring it would be to give shagun in these boring envelopes, right? So Mannu, there should be something new in it, right? Yes, yes, let's make it, so look, three-four years ago, a video of mine about an envelope came out in which and you guys liked that video very much, so those were very
normal and simple envelopes which you will find in the market as well, but today we will make some such envelopes which will look very unique to you and you will not find such envelopes in the market as well, so today we will make all the envelopes in some different styles, we will
make something unique, so this first envelope is a Jharokha style envelope, so although I am showing in the video how to make this envelope, but if you have even a little confusion, then you can  You can check out Part 1, where I've
explained how to make a simple envelope with complete measurements and details. To super high-tech glue. Our envelope is ready. Now, we'll create the window portion. There were some similar designs on another card, so I
took that and made markings on it. cut it like a window on the top. Now, we'll paste this window on top of our normal envelope. If
you think the window is ready, it's not like that. There's still a lot of work left. So, first, we'll take another card and cut a window on it. But its window will be slightly different.
We'll cut this one too. Now, it's not necessary that you have the same design and color. You can use whatever design and color you have.  The we will cut it from the middle, so we have made it like a door in this way
and now we will stick it, this idea of ​​Rokha looks good, for the first time you have used so much brain Manu, are you praising me or insulting me, I am not able to understand but anyway, I have cut a circle from the golden colour card, I have made a cut
in the middle of it and we will stick it in this way, you will know later why I am doing it, I will
add some more details, our plain paper, I have highlighted it with golden colour like this, so see, it will open like this and you can also close it like this, now put the money in it and give it to me, I will put the money Mannu, but I will
not give it to you at all, so in this way you can put the money here and stick it on top with glue, you can put the money here and stick it on top with glue,
anything, oh Dholak means Dholak  If we want to make an envelope like this, first we need two disposable cups and now I am using a wedding card to decorate it, so first we have to paste it on it, so we will have to mark it, so in this way we will
mark it from both the sides and then we will paste it on the cup, so here I am taking golden colour paper, you can make it of any colour, it is completely optional, you can make it as per the wedding card you have, now
I have made it till here but I was thinking where will I put the money in it, so to arrange for that I am making a cut on the side here, that is, I have made a hole like a pocket and from here I am
using a pink colour wedding card on it and will cover it from above, so to cover it, we will first mark it and cut a circle of the same size and now see cut a circle of the same size and now see how I am pasting it, on
but on the other side we have made a pocket in it, so we are pasting it in such a way that it can open from one side also and after doing this we will cover both the paper cups  We will stick them together and to give it a dholak like look, I am using a string here because dholak
also has a string attached to it, so we will make this also in the same way [Sangeet] So after attaching the string, now we will decorate it with laces. If you do
n't have laces, then you can cut the wedding card here also in thin strips and stick it in the middle and on both the sides.
we are making that also. So I have made its string using the same thread that was used for the string here. And now we will show you how to keep the money in it. We had made its opening side, from here you can put the money and
here you can put the money and stick it here.
So now for the next year we can again use a wedding card of any color and use this back part. So in this also first you have to make a normal square envelope. So here I am mentioning the sizes because this is what I have done.  I've
made it a little smaller than the rest of the envelopes. If you want, you can make it normal size. You can keep it as per your requirement. There's no need for that, but it should be square. So, we'll do the same no need for that, but it should be square. So, we'll do the same
fold it from both sides, then cut it and glue it cut it and glue it [music]. So,
it looked quite simple, so I cut a design in the opening part on top. Now it looks a little unique. So, we'll looks a little unique. So, we'll make the upper part in this way. And look,
I've cut a piece of it and attached it, which will give it a kite-like look. You have to pay money, not fly a kite. Hey Mannu, you wo n't actually fly a kite. Actually, we'll pay money for it, but we're decorating it a little bit because, look,
we mostly fly kites on festivals. In our place, the day after Diwali is our place, the day after Diwali is Or you can also make this and give it to someone on Lodhi, it's
quite beautiful.  It will look like a kite, so it will look unique. We'll just decorate it a little. To decorate it, I've used cut mirrors from It's Bits.
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You can check the rest of the details in the description. So now, next, we'll make another very festive envelope. You would
made, because you won't find such unique ideas in the market. We can think of these ourselves. The marketers won't think so much for you. We
can think of them too. It's not that I'm the only creative person born in the world. There are many other creative people too. So, I do n't know what I'm saying.  So look, first of all we have cut a circle and we will trace the remaining part in this
way and then we will fold the circle from the middle like this, so it will become a semi- circle type and this second part which we have traced and cut, we will stick it inside the main part, now you see how we
that it has become like a wallet, that is you can easily keep money inside it, but now we will decorate it a little more, you might not be able to understand what this is, but actually we are making a diya because right now there are festivals and we will
give envelopes on festivals, so it is Diwali and on all the other festivals like Navratri etc. we light diyas, so this will look very festive and if you give it to someone on Diwali, he will be very happy too, so now we will decorate it in this way
and on the inside side I am putting this lace so that it looks like a frill and this entire decoration process is complete, whatever is there is optional  Like, if you don't have laces, you can use something else.
Instead of mirrors, you can use decorative stones. You can do anything like that. can do anything like that. [Music] So, let's
make our next envelope. You've already made so many. Let's do it. Yes, Mannu, I thought I would just make three or four envelopes. But while making this one, I started having so much fun. And as I was making it,
another idea kept coming to my mind. So, I thought, let's great idea and I didn't make it. Now, this envelope is a bit like a handbag, so I ca n't explain it verbally, but
yes, you can understand it very easily by looking at it. And while I'm showing you the process, let me tell you one thing: I've made a lot of envelopes. Like, I must have made more than 100, 200 envelopes, which we  I always give them to people
but I still have a lot of envelopes made, so that's why Mannu was asking how many are you making, you already have a lot, but if you ask, I will show you that collection, I probably still have two boxes,
so if you want to see, I will show it to you in a short video, and I made all these envelopes using wedding cards only, I have not bought anything from them, so you might also find it interesting to see, you
tell me, to give it a hand bag shape, I have give it a handle look, and today my neck is a little not right, I don't know why, it was
fine till now, as soon as I started doing the voice over, it got spoiled a little, so now because I have already shown a lot of artistry in the rest of the envelopes, so this
plastic kalash which is attached in the front, I removed it and pasted it in the front, and in this way we have made it in this  We have to keep the money and this envelope of our bag is ready, so now you guys tell me which one of these envelopes did you like the most,
these cards which are left now, throw them away, we can make more divas with these, wow, now who will explain this to him [music]