Tutorial: Cute Christmas felt gift card holders

December 18, 2015 by Anne Weaver 1 Comment

We’re now just a week from Christmas, and Christmas shopping panic is getting real for many of us. If your last minute Christmas shopping includes gift cards, you can make the presentation of them super cute with these felt gift card holders. Jessica from Cutesy Crafts has a tutorial showing how to make them. They’re fast to sew up, which is good when you’re hitting the week-before-Christmas crunch. Her tutorial includes a Santa suit, a snowman, and an elf outfit.

Click below for her tutorial:

Felt Christmas Gift Card Holders, by Cutesy Crafts

[photo from Cutesy Crafts]

I am a big fan of gift cards, I know lots of people find them impersonal but being able to purchase what YOU need or what YOU want is far more logical than receiving random gifts and stocking fillers that you may not use. Especially with all these Netflix programs telling us to downsize, declutter and or course Konmarie everything. The only disappointing thing with gift cards is not being able to shop for items, if you are like me and enjoying shopping for special gifts then maybe consider shopping for smaller stocking fillers or fun ways to wrap or gift the gift cards. One year I added the gift cards to some pretty wide mouthed water bottles that have been filled with little trinkets. We also featured this Giftcard Christmas tree idea on the blog here.

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Jessica @ Cutesy Crafts says
December 18, 2015 at 8:37 pm
Thanks for the feature! 🙂
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Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.

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[photo credit: Melly Sews]

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