Our fabric scrap pile is growing out of control. We have recently started sorting our scraps by colour into shoeboxes in an effort to organise them better and hopefully use them in more projects. We seem to generate scraps faster than we can use them! Our quick craft this week, is a great scrap buster project.
We have made fabric cards featuring letters cut from our favourite fabric scraps, and fused to cardstock with double side appliqué web (such as steam a seam or vliesofix).
Using our computer and printer, we printed out the words we wanted using a fat font printed to fit our cards. (We used Brittanic Bold font, 128 point – available on Microsoft Word). We traced the letters in reverse onto the back of the appliqué web, cut them out, and fused them onto the back of our assorted scraps. For a scrappy look, we used a different fabric for each letter. We cut out the letters using sharp embroidery scissors, and fused them onto a good quality, textured card stock.
This was a quick and easy, no sew project. It is a fun way to get a new lease of life out of some of your smallest scraps. We were planning to stitch around the letters using our sewing machine, but they turned out really cute without any stitching so we didn’t worry about outlining them.
You could use this technique to make cards for any occasion. Fabric cards are so versatile.
You can check out more of our Quick Craft projects here.
Lovely! Like you I’ve a mountain of tiny scraps I can’t make myself throw away so I definitely want to try this.
They are lots of fun to make Ann, Have a great weekend.
So cute! I will try this with all my fabric scraps! Thank you! 🙂
Thanks Sara – we are planning on making some more and have come up with a long list of words for various occasions.
Thank you for this tutorial. It is just what I have been looking for, as I have bags and bags of scraps of fabric that I have saved.
Thanks Sandi! It is so hard to throw away small scraps so it feels good to put themt o good use.
Those smallest scraps tend to pile up faster than anything! Cute project to put them to good use! I’ve got a Craft Gossip post that links to your tutorial here:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-no-sew-fabric-scrap-greeting-cards/2014/06/20/
–Anne
Thanks heaps Anne! We always appreciate when you link through to us. Have a great weekend.
Great idea!
Thanks Kate.
What a great idea! My scrap heap is growing out of control.
If you didn’t have the fusible web you could stiffen your fabric with watered down white glue, run small squares through a sticker maker then trace your letters on the sticker release paper, cut them out and then stick them to your card. Thanks for the inspiration I see some scrap busting in my future!
Great idea Lori! I have a sticker maker in my craft room.