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| Mark Mcgrath | by www.indystar.com. All rights reserved. | 2.04 | 6:28 |
When it comes to card design, the obvious and easiest choice is to go with paper collages, especially because there are so many delectable offerings of rub-on letters, stamps, punches, stickers, papers and photos.
I often make handmade paper cards, but this season, I wanted to try something different. So I settled on creating all my cards using fabric, yarn and thread. My mission was to create greetings that had a quilted, homespun look but were still slick enough for the recipient to hang in a frame as a decoration.
To achieve this look, you'll need to convert your photos into fabric. There are many methods, but the quickest is to pick up a package of fabric sheets at the craft or sewing store. These are pieces of fabric affixed to paper stiff enough to run through your home printer.
After printing your scanned or photocopied picture onto the fabric sheet, peel away the paper and voila! You have your picture printed onto fabric.
I went with a vintage theme with the help of old-fashioned collage sheets I found at artchixstudio.
com.
This project will take a bit of sweat and labor. If that is too much to tackle, you can settle on making one or two and then framing them and giving them as gifts, or make smaller versions for use as tags or place-card holders.
Supplies:
Photos
Color copier or scanner
White fabric sheets for the computer
Decorative-edge scissors
Assorted fabrics
Glue stick
Blank cards or cardstock cut and folded into cards
Sewing machine or a needle and thread
Batting
Straight pins
Yarns and fibers
Embellishments
Directions:
Put your photos in the copier-scanner and set the print quality to the highest resolution.
Insert the fabric sheet into your printer according to package directions (usually face down).
Print the images, cut them out and remove the paper backing.
Set images aside.
Cut a piece of fabric for the background of your card (use the decorative-edge scissors).
Use the glue stick to lightly tack fabric to the front of the card.
Sew the fabric in place. You can sew the edges in a curvy border or add dimension by sewing all over the surface of the fabric. Cut any loose strands.
Once you have the background in place, it's time to add the image. Cut a piece of batting to go under it to give it a quilted look.
Pin and then sew the image to the larger piece of fabric, with the batting sandwiched between.
Pin and then sew the image to the center of the card.
Sew designs inside the image to make it look puffier.
Sew yarn as a border, or add other kinds of embellishments.
Variation: To make your cards stand out even more, package them with frames that the recipients can use to display the cards after they read them.
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