Tues Tutorial~ 2024 Christmas Post Cards

 So here is this year's post cards to go in the mailboxes at church. A few will be mailed to family and friends. There were 24 made today, and probably will need more. Each one does not take a lot of time to make. It's a way to use up those tiny bits of scraps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Tuesday Tutorial 

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First make dryer sheets (or whatever backing you choose) full of stitched on fabric like is done HERE or HERE without backing. For these cards, dryer sheets were covered then folded in half and cut to making almost exactly 2 cards.

 

With a word processor (I used Open Office, a free program, which I've used since 2011), make the words to go on the front of the card. Above shows the picture of the half sheet remaining. The font that was used is called "pw Christmas font" downloaded free from www.dafont.com. A rotary blade specifically used for cutting paper, aka dull blade, was used to cut the phrases apart with a rotary cutting ruler.

Experiment with special edged cutting scissors.

 

 Stitch the phrase to the fabric only.

 

 Stitch around the edge

with 

an edge foot

or any foot with a blade.

Let the blade of the foot move along

the edge of the card,

while the needle is moved to the left around the 2.0 position.

 

 

Trim

The card stock was printed using the 

"Just Cole Cursive" font

also from Dafont.