We knitters and crocheters often find ourselves with leftovers and snippets of yarn after completing our projects. I tend to collect everything because I know there could be a use for it all, eventually. Over the years, I’ve found that smaller leftovers (like yarn and fabric scraps) are great for crafting, especially in making easy kids crafts. However, adults can craft with yarn scraps as well, of course!

If you have extra yarn scraps lying around from a past project or two, use them to make some beautiful handmade cards that anyone would be impressed to receive!

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Cutest-Ever Yarn Scrap Cards

Materials and Tools

• A couple sheets of heavy paper or card stock (available from any office supply store and craft store)
• Scissors or other blade cutting device such as a craft cutting knife (For this project, I used die cuts made with an electronic die cutting machine, but it is possible to achieve similar results with some patience and scissors.)
• Yarn scraps
• Some sort of adhesive (like double-sided tape or a glue stick)

Instructions

1. Cut a piece of 8 1/2-inch by 11-inch card stock in half.

2. Take one of your half sheets of card stock and fold that into a card. Cut the other half of the card stock in half so you end up with two pieces that are the same size as the front of your card. Discard one of the small pieces because you won’t need two to finish the project.

4. Place the card stock piece that now has a shape cut out of it over the front of the card and lightly trace the shape’s outline in pencil onto the front of the card. Then, completely cover the tracing with your adhesive.

7. After you’ve attached the top panel, feel free to decorate it with some stickers, stamps and doodling.

What’s the cutest craft you’ve ever made with yarn scraps?

 
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Ann is a Mixed Media artist who lives near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She is a mom of two terrific teens, wife of a very busy businessman, and servant to one fluffy cat. From sewing and most needle crafts, stamping, scrapbooking and a lot of paper crafts, to drawing, painting and working with inks, Ann is multi-skilled and never bored. She had some formal training with a short stint in fine Arts in College, many many workshops, and a lot of self learning. She also has experience workingas a consultant, teacher, and writer of various crafts. Her style is eclectic and vintage, inspired by nature and her collections of found objects and ephemera. She loves to scour the internet, magazines, and flea markets for ideas which she collects in her various notebooks and takes lots of pictures with her iPhone. Her favourite place to be is in her home studio with her beloved family nearby. Her family motto is : Live well, laugh often, and love much.

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