Vintage Christmas Card Bunting

It just goes to show that sometimes hanging on to things of sentimental value might just be of value to someone later on down the track. Going through my Mum’s things this year, I came across all of her Christmas cards she got before she was married. There were also all of my birth greeting cards (I’m the eldest) plus engagement, kitchen tea and birthday greeting cards all from the 1950’s and 1960’s. I decided to create this Vintage Christmas Card Bunting from the old Christmas cards.

I couldn’t stand parting with them but knew it would be too much to hold onto all of them. I gave some away to Facebook friends and then made myself and my two sisters each their own Christmas card bunting. It will be a great thing to bring out each Christmas to remind us of Mum and her remember her value of sentiment.

The cards are so cute and were in perfect condition. Most of them still had a lot of glitter on them. I just used some vintage bias binding, also from her collection to hold them all together and sewn on the sewing machine.

A simple easy decorative item with sentimental value and it won’t take up much room in the Christmas decorations box.

PS.  Not that my photos were ever much good but my phone is in being fixed and that’s what I use for most of my photos these days. I’m using my son’s iPod at the moment.

Fabric scrap Christmas tree card

You can call me “Ms Last Minute” from now on because that’s the way we do things around here lately. I want to share how I made this ‘last minute’ fabric scrap Christmas tree card.

I’ve always got the kids to make their teacher’s a Christmas card. Just a piece of A4 card stock folded in half with some kind of drawing or collage pasted on. I’m ‘pretty’ organised around this time of year and usually have done this but not last week. Boy, last week of school and I kept saying to the kids, “we’ve got to make those Christmas cards, we’ve got to make those Christmas cards”. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, they were made at around 8pm the night before the final day of school. 

This is such an easy project. Choose whatever fabric scraps you have. I think the more colourful, the better. I just stuck with green because I wanted it to look like a Christmas tree. If we would’ve done it earlier, I would’ve let the kids pick their own colours. I just grabbed a few pieces of green fabric, ripped it into strips and then the kids pasted it onto a sheet of A4 paper. Once it was dry, cut into a triangle shape, top with a star sticker, button or brad and its done.

Just remember, if you’re like me, use fast drying glue! (The teachers loved them. The cards had that look of “boy, you put a lot of work into this”. If only they knew.)