Here’s another creative use for fabric scraps and beautiful papers: make your own fabric greeting cards, invitations, or art for the walls! It’s cheap and it’s easy. Let your imagination run wild!

Dig out some fabric scraps to make a set of brightly colored cocktail napkins. Sew them up quickly, then pass them out at your next party.  Save trees by throwing them in the washing machine instead of the landfill, using your one of a kind cocktail napkins over and over.

Why not use some of those lovely scraps of cloth you have lying around to whip-up a handful of bookmarks you can stick inside a book your giving? You can make several in an hour and then store them with  your wrapping supplies, or stick one in an envelope and send as a fun greeting card or keep them to use yourself.

For just a couple of dollars and an hour (or less!) of your time, you can create a stunning, cloth covered journal where you can keep favorite recipes, record your memories or dreams, copy down poems, or customize and give as a gift. Or use the following directions to create your own fabric-covered photo album.