Gift wrap bookmarks for gift cards

We are having a Climate Change Fashion Show with the GrammaLink  group at Sunnybrook United in Red Deer and I am preparing some environmentally friendly merchandise to sell there!!  

These are little fabric bookmarks I made recently which are also a way of packaging a gift card that leaves no waste!!!!  I am calling the concept "It's a Wrap".  I have several other ideas that will with work as gifts and will also gift wrap a gift card.  

As you can see above the gift card tucks very neatly into the pocket on the bookmark!!!  It could be placed inside a previously read book and presented to a book lover for any occasion with a gift card to their favorite book store.  With a little hanger of crochet thread it could be hung on the tree for Christmas!!! ( I will likely add those).  The brochure can be turned over and used as a tag and then recycled.  It leaves no waste!!!         

It was totally wonderful to be sewing again and I expect I will make a few more of these.  I have been using scraps which have been sent my way during the sorting for our fabric sale.  I made a rectangle about 16" to 18" long about 2.75" wide and flipped the top down and the bottom up after I hemmed the edge.  I stitched a slot for a piece of cardstock to be slipped in the inside before I flipped up the bottom and stitched it down. I did add some little strips of fusible webbing to the edges so they would be less likely to fray.  I stitched across at about 3.25" or so to create the pocket for the gift card.  Some of these are headed to my grandchildren when we see our daughter tomorrow.  The others will be available at the Climate Change Fashion Show.       Therese

 

Climate Change Fashion Show

You are all invited to join us for a very different fashion show created by a member of the Calgary Grandmothers group with the emphasis being on Climate Change!!  We will have some fun and the opportunity talking about how we can all participate in the process of reducing our impact on climate change.  

There will be environmentally friendly merchandise for sale and we will all enjoy refreshments as well.  

Hope to see you there!!!

Therese

 

Denim tote bag with a raw edge applique of triangles embellished with vintage metal buttons

My second bag for the weekend!!! Another one created with old blue jeans.  I created the border by sewing the triangles to the rust rectangle with straight stitch really close to the raw edge.  I then stitched this piece to a dark piece of denim.  I then added this dark piece to several pieces of patchwork denim to create the outside of the bag.  I used yellow thread to do my decorative stitching on the bag and the handles.  The back of the bag features a piece of denim with a pocket still intact and makes a great pocket for the outside of the bag.  I created a rust and brown pocket for the inside of the bag.  I added a little piece of rust fabric with two triangles to the back near the pocket.  I stitched the vintage metal buttons with yellow thread before I sewed in the lining which is a striped fabric.  Easier to find "stuff" when the inside is light.  The bag is 17.5" wide by 15" tall with a 3" bottom.  Therese