Recycled Clutch Tutorial

This clutch is made form fused plastic bags from stores, like Walmart, Food Lion, Target and so on. The idea came from the magazine Cloth, Paper Scissors. you cut the handles off and the bottom. then you place 2 or 3 bags between parchmant paper, top and bottom because these bags will melt.
then you set the iron to medium. iron slowly over the parchment paper. I painted mine with Alcohol inks, an it dries fast, then I painted with decoupage finsh to seal when that dried, then I cut the melted bags to the size I want, then I heat set it between the 2 pieces of parchmant paper again, just run iron over it slowley, it kind of sticks to the parchment paper but peels right off in a minute or so.
Now you just cut a fabric liner the same size as plastic and sew edges together, you can sew over the whole thing to decorate and do any kind of embelishment you wish. I just flod mine in 3rds, sew up the 2 sides and have a flap closure.
I am doing these for a swap in "FAT" you can find the link to the right.

fused azalea postcard tutorial

I fused some of my azaleas between two pieces of heat and bond on 2 pieces of fabric, the top piece of fabic is organza so you can see through it. first you put the heat and bond on the fabrics, the background I used white, then I put heat and bond on the organza being careful not to get the heat and bond on anything else and not melting the organza, then you lay the heat and bond side up for the background fabric, then arrange the flowers and leaves on top of that (kind of pushing them as flat as you can) , then lay the heat n bond organza on top of those layers but be sure the heat and bond is facing down, then put a piece of parchment paper on top and bond then iron all together, the fused heat and bond seals the flowers.