Christmas Card Holder

Create your own Christmas card holder during the Holidays with Joy® embroidered letters!

You will need:

• Joy® Iron-on embroidered letter sheets - White, Bubble
• 2 Glittered felt sheets
• Fancy chenille pipe cleaners
• Web fusing
• Iron and parchment paper
• White paint pen and a paper piercer
• Permanent colored marker
• Bells or other holiday baubles
• Hot glue 

Instructions:

 1. From the felt, cut as shown, the front and back of the greeting card holder.

2. Use the web fusing and a hot iron to seal the sides and bottom of the pouch.

3. Add details to the pouch with the paint pen.

4. Color your letters to look like mint candies. 

5. Arrange your letters onto the pouch.

6. Make sure the iron is set for cotton, then use the parchment paper to heat press the letters.

7. Add the rest of the details with the hot glue. Use the paper piercer to poke holes in the felt when you need to attach some embellishments.

You can find Joy® embroidered, iron-on letters and numbers at your favorite craft stores.  If you need a special color, white letters are custom dyeable with markers, paint, dye and more!

Embossed Oly-Fun Bookmarks!

I'm so excited to share with you this new Metallic Oly-Fun Fabric from Fairfield!
 I have used their colorful fabrics in many projects and just love the ease of it's use.

Whats great is that the Metallic Oly*Fun™ is a Multi-Purpose Craft Material.
To add shimmer, sparkle, and shine. Easy to cut and sew.  Does not fray.
Can be sewn, glued, stapled, tied, knitted, crocheted and more!
 Great for indoor and outdoor decor!

To make bookmarks like these, you will need the following:

• Metallic Oly-Fun fabric
• Scissors and or paper trimmer
• Any die cutting machine
• Die cutting platform and plates
• Any embossing folders
• Brightly colored permanent markers
• Wide double stick tape or spray adhesive
• Cereal box cardboard

1. Trim your cereal boxes to the actual size of the embossing folders.
2. Glue the metallic fabric to each cardboard with the tape or adhesive.

3. Get creative with small squares and strips.

4. Following directions on the platform, place the covered cardstock in your folders and run through the machine. Play around with how you want the embossed design to be, raised or depressed.
5. Color the embossed designs with your markers.
6. Use your scissors or paper trimmer to cut the bookmarks.

 I absolutely love anything metallic and I use a lot of it in my Mexican Folk Art projects!

 

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