Handmade Christmas Cards 2 by Judith Baines

As I am in hospital having “spectactularly” broken my left leg I am afraid I can only share with you a couple of techniques that I already have on my laptop!

1. Iron Christmas fabric onto Bondaweb
Cut out any Christmassy shapes – eg, bells; snowmen; trees; stars; etc, and then iron on to a suitable plain background.
Embellish with stitching, sequins or beads.

My example shows a bauble made with three third-circles of different fabrics joined with machine zigzag with a little gold jump ring as the hanger.

2. Buy some enchanting stuff called Angelina Fibres.  You will find sources on the net.  This you tease out thinly onto baking parchment, place another sheet of baking parchment on top and iron fairly briefly.  You will then be able to peel off a delightful thin sparkly sheet of “fabric”.  The colours can be mixed and the fuzzy edges can be very useful.

Using some nice dark backing fabric – midnight blue silk dupion is lovely – cut shapes from the Angelina fibre and apply.

In my examples I cut cloud shapes that overlapped edges and used star sequins of various sizes to stitch them to the background.