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How to Make Collage Cards

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Splash on fabric accents for a gift card unlike any other.

Splash on fabric accents for a gift card unlike any other.

Photo: Scott Phillips

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Step 3: Use your sewing machine!
Use all of the fancy decorative stitches on your machine. With the right side facing up, sew over and around the fabrics and papers in a loose pattern.

Add fancy stitches with your machine.

Step 4: Add beads or buttons
Glue on three-dimensional objects: beads, buttons, or even shells and charms. If you plan to mail your card, make sure that the items will fit in your envelope and won’t be crushed.

Add 3-D objects for added dimension and texture.

Step 5: Cover the stitches
You might like the look of the stitching on the inside cover of your card. If not, simply glue a rectangle of decorative paper over it.

Hide the inside stitches with paper.

Make Custom Envelopes:
If you don’t have an envelope into which the new card will fit, just make one. Take apart an old envelope to use as a pattern.

Step 1: Create and cut out a pattern
Take apart an old envelope. Enlarge or reduce the envelope across the width or length as needed. Trace it on decorative paper, and cut it out.

Create a more interesting envelope.

Step 2: Add decorative stitching
If you want to add decorative stitching to the envelope, sew it while it’s cut out but still flat and unglued. Then fold it, and glue.

Tips:
If you used a large button or delicate beads as accents, wrap the card in bubble wrap or tissue paper before you put it in an envelope to mail it.

Photos by: Sloan Howard

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