Waste not, want not

 
I spied an amazing book of craft card in a superb variety of colours that I had to buy from Lidl (as you do!) I knew exactly what I was going to do with it.

I rarely throw any of the by-products from my sewing away. Wadding goes to a toy maker, tiny fabric scraps go into a bag for school collage.  Small useful offcuts go into my scrap box for purse linings or badges or in this case Christmas cards!

Great fun was had over a couple of evenings putting them together. Luckily I had a clear drying Pritt all-purpose glue, which when sparingly spread didn’t soak through and when dry worked like cement!

I soon realised that a smaller card was aesthetically more pleasing. The fabric prints lent themselves to a diminutive look. So just a quarter of a sheet of card was used on each one. Once I'd bought envelopes they cost about 20p per card, which I don’t think, is too bad, for something a bit different, even if, try as I might, I can't even think of a tenuous link between fabric cards and the Christmas message can you? Answers on a postcard or a Christmas card if you like!

And then I made some sets of badges as gifts and mounted those onto strips of fabric stuck to a luggage label quite a few of which were given to me from an office clearout for nuppence! Yay!

Needless to say I've left publishing this post until this week so as not to show them before they're sent out!