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Quick Fabric Cards

June 14, 2014 By A Spoonful of Sugar - 16 Comments

Make cards from your fabric scrapsOur 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).

Quick card to make

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.

Easy cards using fabric scraps

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.

Make card using fabric scraps

You could use this technique to make cards for any occasion. Fabric cards are so versatile.

Cards made from fabric scraps

Quick cards to make 1You can check out more of our Quick Craft projects here. 

Filed Under: Paper Crafts Tagged With: card making, gift tag, quick craft, scrap buster, scraps

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Comments

  1. Ann says

    June 14, 2014 at 4:04 pm

    Lovely! Like you I’ve a mountain of tiny scraps I can’t make myself throw away so I definitely want to try this.

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      June 14, 2014 at 6:53 pm

      They are lots of fun to make Ann, Have a great weekend.

      Reply
  2. Sara says

    June 14, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    So cute! I will try this with all my fabric scraps! Thank you! 🙂

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      June 14, 2014 at 7:01 pm

      Thanks Sara – we are planning on making some more and have come up with a long list of words for various occasions.

      Reply
  3. Sandi says

    June 14, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      June 15, 2014 at 7:16 am

      Thanks Sandi! It is so hard to throw away small scraps so it feels good to put themt o good use.

      Reply
  4. Anne says

    June 20, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    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

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    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      June 21, 2014 at 7:48 am

      Thanks heaps Anne! We always appreciate when you link through to us. Have a great weekend.

      Reply
  5. Kate says

    June 20, 2014 at 11:19 pm

    Great idea!

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      June 21, 2014 at 7:48 am

      Thanks Kate.

      Reply
  6. LeAnn says

    July 4, 2014 at 6:42 am

    What a great idea! My scrap heap is growing out of control.

    Reply
  7. Lori Stillman says

    September 30, 2014 at 9:59 am

    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!

    Reply
    • A Spoonful of Sugar says

      September 30, 2014 at 4:16 pm

      Great idea Lori! I have a sticker maker in my craft room.

      Reply

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