heart pencil toppers

February 08, 2011

My sewing teacher had a hunch that I need a break from learning to sew. So, she introduced me to my new best friend, Heat’n Bond. It makes playing with my fabric super fun and easy. I made these cute pencil toppers for Valentine’s Day . . .  although, I’ll probably have them on my desk year round. Here are the instructions.

Heart Pencil Toppers Supplies:
– fabric (3 inches x 7 inches)
– Heat’n Bond iron on adhesive (3 inches x 7 inches)
– iron
– scissors
– cardstock paper

Heart Pencil Toppers Instructions:
1. Print out heart templates (small and large) on card stock  paper. Cut out shapes.
2. Place fabric on top of the sticky side of Heat’n Bond.
3. Iron fabric piece to Heat’n Bond
4. Using heart templates,  cut out small and large heart from fabric piece
5. Peel off the back of Heat’n Bond from small heart
6. Iron fabric/Heat’n Bond to the small paper heart (this will make it more sturdy)
7.  Peel off back of Heat’n Bond from large heart
8. Place pencil in the middle of heart in between the fabric pieces
9. Iron around the heart and leave a space for the pencil to be inserted
10. Trim off any excess pieces

(photos by Ann Kelle)

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