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Hi -
I saw this cool card where scraps of fabric were sewn either onto the card in pieces or as a whole. I thought I saw it here. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
Where did you see the card? I would ask you to link the card or post what it looks like, but you need more posts to do both of those things. First of all, welcome! Go to the gallery and posts comments. This will bring your number if posts up and then you can share an example. I can't remember how many posts you need before you can post to a chat thread, so comment away and watch your number rise.
Lisa - I'm not sure where I saw it. THought I saved it, but now can't find it. I really thought it was from SCS. I've searched every category I could think of. No luck.
Pam - thanks for the fabric gallery hint. I looked thru all the cards there and no luck.
I'll see if I can find it again, then I'll track it down.
Many, many years ago, my mother and I, and others, made cards using pieces of fabrics cut out, such as poinsettias, or butterflies, and adhered to the cardstock with iron on fusible, such as Wonder Under, or Stitch Witchery, or other brands. Sometimes hand drawn stitches were added for enhancements. Fabrics that had metallics woven into the designs made especially lovely cards. Depending on the design, dimension can be added using pieces of cotton balls.
Brandy Cox likes to use fabric on her cards. I know she had a video last year. I will look for it to link when I am at my computer. She adds fabric with the fusible adhesive, like ozarkstamper mentioned, then added an image on top.
Thank you for that vid...I had never heard of Wonder Under and man it looks terrific!
Wait Sue...are you suggesting I can heat cling wrap and it wont burn or smell or anything? And how do you keep it from wrinkling?
If you cut the cardstock and fabric a bit larger than you need, and the cling wrap a bit smaller than the cardstock and fabric, you can make a "sandwich": copy paper/cardstock/cling wrap//fabric/copy paper. Press without moving the iron around, a section at a time, and it should turn out fine. The two pieces of copy paper help keep everything in place and avoid messing up your iron or ironing surface. The tricky part is knowing how hot the iron needs to be - every iron and every wrap is slightly different, so some experimenting is probably in order with scraps first...
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wow - interesting. I've never seen cloth cards before - I used to use the Wonder Under and Stitch Witchery for 'hems'.. I think I still have some in my craft room. Not sure if it's still good as it's probably 25 years old by now.. LOL thanks
To add to gregzgurl instructions (very thorough!), I will also use brown paper grocery bags in the place of copy paper. Another clue is to NOT use steam feature on your iron--just a dry iron. This is also a great technique to use pretty, patterned napkins in the place of fabric (be sure to peal apart any layers and just use the pretty patterned part).
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