No-Sew Fabric Cards

I had to make some cards for a few birthdays that were coming up so I decided I'd try something different... the no-sew fabric card as I shall call it. ;o) Nothing fancy, but fun anyway.

So I grabbed two random pieces of cardboard and joined them with a piece of tape. Also cut out a piece of fabric, about 2.5 cm wider all round:

Then it was time for my trusty double sided tape. I love double sided tape, it's perfect for sewing on buttons, labels...all kinds of things so I always have some handy.

I stuck some of the table all over the back of my card like so:

Then stick the card down on the wrong side of the fabric, making sure you stretch it a little so you don't get little bubbley things. Then stick more double sided tape around the outside of the fabric like so:

Then pop the fabric around. I actually found in the end that doing the top and bottom first and then folding in the sides gets the tidiest finish. It should look something like so:

Stick double sided tape around the outside again and stick two pieces of the same cardboard that you used for the actual card and stick on top of each side so you have a nice clean inside of a card (sorry, no photo).

Tadaaaaaaaaaa!! Grab some ribbon and things to pretty them up. You can use double-sided tape to stick ribbon onto it before you stick the inside card on.

Or get creative and use your sewing machine and use cutoffs to me something like this (except that it's not a no-sew card anymore of course):

Have fun with it, if you finds this helpful do let me know. ;o)

Easy Bias Tape

Well.. or sort of...this is the way I do bias tape and I'm no great sewer by any means but this works for me...;o)

Sooo...grab yourself some yummy bias tape and a piece of fabric and let's do this! If you have an iron handy (I don't iron much in my house but my iron is in constant use when I'm sewing), fold your bias tape almost in half (let the side with the wider inside fold overlap a little. Below the wider inside fold is on the top side of the photo).




2. Unfold your bias tape and sew on the shorter side (right side to fabric, so on top of right side of fabric..

3. Like so:

You can either stitch along the fold or just out, you'll figure out soon enough which you prefer.

4. Fold it back together and over and you'll end up with this on your top side:

5. Top Stich on the top side (where you have attached it) and in all theory it should come out beautifully on the other side. Yes, it does take one round of extra sewing but it usually always turns out looking good. Easy Peasy. I guess you could try it with pins too but I don't see it working out as well. The other way is that you sew it to the wrong side and then top stitch from the top side...whatever....


Let me know if this is confusing or whatever or something doesn't make sense. And comment if you find it helpful...

Right, I have a first birthday party to get ready for...exactly a year ago (to the minute !!) my 2nd little girl was born. How time flies!!