Fabric Flowers on Party Favors

Fabric Flower Embellishments by Kelly Wayment

I think my favorite thing about a party is the party favor—making it or receiving it.  These are some girly party favors I made where I added a fabric flower as an embellishment on the box.  (I’m a big fan of both paper and fabric flowers made with my Silhouette CAMEO.)

If you’ve never tried Silhouette’s fabric interfacing before, let me give you a few tips.  I used this 3d flower design with Clean Cut interfacing and plain cotton fabric.

In Studio, once you’ve resized the flower as necessary, draw a rectangle around the flower pieces so you have a guide for how large to cut the interfacing and fabric.  Make sure you turn off the cut line for the rectangle in the Cut Style Window so it remains a guide and doesn’t get cut.  (Because this rectangle is the size you need to cut your interfacing with scissors, it’s helpful to round up to the nearest 1/2″ when deciding on dimensions.)

Then follow the instructions on the interfacing packaging.  I always cut the interfacing exactly the size of my guide rectangle, which should be smaller than the fabric you will iron it onto so the glue doesn’t stick to the iron.  Once you’ve ironed the interfacing to the fabric, trimmed off the excess, and removed the paper backing, you have a piece of fabric ready to place on your mat exactly as you have it positioned on the screen.

match screen to mat

Also be sure to use a dedicated blade for fabric, and I get the best results with a very sticky mat, so I have a dedicated mat for fabric as well.

I removed these flowers from the mat, gave them a little scrunch for dimension, and assembled them with a glittery brad in the center.  (I only had plain silver brads so I brushed on a little black nail polish and dipped them in black glitter.)

assembled fabric flowers

party favors with fabric flower accents

Go ahead and break out the fabric interfacing for a special touch on your next paper creation!

Shapes Used:

3D Lori Whitlock Flower
Gift Bag



1 thought on “Fabric Flowers on Party Favors”

  • Hey Kelly,

    I LOOOOOOVE your favors, they are sure to be a HIT!!!

    I actually found some of said "fabric interfacing" in my stash the other day when I was shifting a few things around. I may have to attempt something with that.

    Thanks for coming to visit me too!

    Blessings,
    Barb

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