How to make sewn gift tags & notebooks

To complete the tea towel gifts I made for some girlfriends, I whipped up some cute notebooks & gift tags to match.

These honestly only took minutes to make and you only need a couple of materials.

• Fabric scraps & interfacing
• Card Stock
• Plain white paper
• Threaded sewing machine

Gift Tags

• Back your fabric with some interfacing, draw then cut out your shapes.  The interfacing will help when sewing the shapes to the card.
• Set you machine to a straight stitch and sew to a piece of card stock. Slowly is the key here.  Leave a small margin from the edge.
• Cut around the fabric shape leaving a little margin on the card.
• Punch a hole and add some ribbon for tying.
• The back side needs to be neat as this is where your message will go.

Notebooks

• Your notebook can be any size you wish to make it.  I cut A4 in half and then folded it in half again.
• The outer layer will be card stock, the inner pages normal copy paper but again you could use anything.
• Make your card stock outer layer a little larger than the inner pages.
• About 5 inner sheets folded in half (to make 10) is the perfect thickness to sew.
• Start with sewing on your applique to one half side of the card stock exactly the same as for the gift tags.
• Make a fold so you have a line to follow while sewing the paper and outer card cover together.
• Use the end threads to tie off into a knot.
• I used a walking foot but you don't need to.