When my downline, Pam, suggested having a class focused on using the designer fabrics; I thought it was a great idea. She was looking for more ideas on how to use all the cute fabrics and I needed the kick in the pants to start cutting more into my fat quarters. So, I organized a fun afternoon where I shared “no sew” ideas and Bethani, another of my downline, brought an awesome card for everyone to do as well. Since two of the cards used Sale-a-Bration stamp sets, I thought I’d share them first.
So Happy For You Butterflies
For this card, we use the Sizzix Multi-Purpose adhesive sheets to put adhesive on the back of the blue and red polka dot fabric (we didn’t put any adhesive on the multi-colored polka dot fabric). Then we ran both fabric pieces through the Big Shot using the butterfly Bigz die.
Tip: Place the fabric on the adhesive sheet prior to running it through the BigShot. It not only will make it easier for you to have an exact shape match without having to try to line anything up, but the BigShot will provide all the pressure you need to ensure a no-bubble seal between the fabric and adhesive!
We adhered the cardstock and then ran a piece of cardstock vellum through a crimper for a fun little touch (ok – and really I somehow completely forgot the vellum at home and so the ladies used whisper white paper and it looked really good too). I adhered the crimped paper in the center only. Then used the big butterfly with the adhesive back as the main adhesive as I layered it over the crimped paper.
Then we used glue dots in the center of the little butterfly and the button to layer them on top. By only using adhesive in the middle of the small butterfly and the vellum, it gave the card a little extra dimension and/or movement. Finish it off with my favorite sentiment set right now – So Happy For You from the Sale-a-Bration catalog
Sweet Summer Flowers
This is the card that was designed and taught by my downline, Bethani Semple. Isn’t it so fun looking! I think she did an awesome job and though I changed my version up a little by wrapping the ribbon around the Old Olive cardstock, I now think her original version that wrapped the Night of Navy taffeta ribbon around the cardbase was better. 
Anyway, for this card, we took a strip of the Sweet Stitches Fabric and twisted it (kind of like how you twisted a towel when you were a kid and were going to “snap” someone in the kitchen). So, once you had the twisted strip of fabric, we curled that around a small stick – in this case a paper piercer – to form the flower head. When you were finished coiling, you tucked the end of the ribbon up through the center of your flower. Then, add some hot glue to a punched out circle of cardstock and squish in your flower head. Ta da! Your very own custom accent. Totally fun, huh?
In this case we used the ribbon flower as a head for one of our Sweet Summer flowers, this set is also from the Sale-a-Bration catalog.
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