Show your love by making your own Valentine Fabric Postcards! Fabric postcards are little pieces of art that the recipients can display and enjoy, and they are so fun to make!

One (1) fabric postcard

How to Make Fabric Postcards

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Active Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Beginner

Estimated Cost: $1

Quick and easy project that also can be a stash buster, while making little pieces of art to show your love for friends and family by making them fabric postcards. Sometime people refer to them as quilted postcards, either way they are fun to make!

All you need are some fabric scraps, some Fast2Fuse or other very stiff double sided fusible interfacing and some lightweight double sided fusible web like Wonder Under.

Materials

4" x 6" piece of double sided heavy fusible web like Fast2Fuse or TimTex
5" x 7" piece of fabric for the background
5" x 7" piece of muslin for backing
Scraps of fabric to fuse on background
Fusible web, like Misty Fuse or Wonder Under
Thread

Tools

Sewing machine
Iron
Ironing surface
Teflon mat or parchment paper

Instructions

Have your Teflon sheet or piece of parchment paper handy on your ironing board. Place the Fast2Fuse on the Teflon sheet and place the 5" x 7" piece of fabric on top and press until fused together.

I like to use a background piece a bit larger than the fusible and then trim it down at the end. This makes a nicer edge finish. And, if your fabric was just a little off, you don't get fusible on your iron. I've learned this from experience!

Next, take scraps of fabric and apply Wonder Under or other double sided fusible web. Cut out a heart shape, peel off the paper. Fuse the heart to the background fabric, again on the Teflon sheet or parchment paper.
Head to your sewing machine and use your free motion foot. Lower your feed dogs and stitch unevenly around the heart three times. I learned that I really like the uneven stitching better than even stitching. Feel free to stitch evenly and try for perfection, if that is the look you like. It's your postcard - do what you want!

Lay the postcard on the Teflon sheet with the heart down. Put the piece of muslin or white fabric on the side of the Fast2Fuse that still has the fusible. Press to fuse the muslin backing to the postcard.

Trim the background and backing fabric to be the same size as your Fast2Fuse.

To finish the postcard, stitch about 1/4" in from all edges. Here are some finished Valentine Fabric Postcards.

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Can you send fabric postcards through the mail?

Yes! Ready to write a sweet note and address!

Make sure to place the address correctly on your postcards, the right half of the back of the card. Put a stamp on it and mail some love to someone! I

f you have embellishments like beads, I put them in envelopes. Note: you might need extra postage. I take mine into the post office to mail to make sure there won’t be any postage due.

Valentine postcards 2024 work in progress

For this year, I stitched randomly with white on black for the background, and painted fabric for the hearts. I cut them into squares which required them needing to go into envelopes. I added some confetti to the envelopes before sealing to make them a bit more festive!

Here are some of the finished Valentine’s.

Group 2 of finished Valentine's for 2024

They are so much fun to make and send as a little surprise and hug in the mail!

Another year, more fabric Valentines! These aren’t 4×6 and ready to put in the mail; they are 5×5 and will need to go into an envelope for postage and mailing.

I have been having fun playing around with different textile paints and different ways to make marks on fabrics. It’s almost embarrassing how much fabric I’ve made, and not cut into. 🙂 Now is the time! I started with a piece that I loved, but knew it needed to be cut up into smaller pieces to be used. So I used it for the hearts.

Start by fusing your favorite fusible web on the back of your heart fabric.

Then cut out your stiff fusible like Fast-2-Fuse or Timtex to the finished size of your fabric card.

Fuse one side of the fusible to your background fabric. I made this hand painted fabric from textile paints, intentionally mixing blue, green and white to make the background vary. I then layered white dots printed with bubble wrap on top to add more visual interest.

Put the fusible web pieces on a Teflon sheet, like Goddess Sheets, or parchment paper, then layer your background fabric on top, cover with another Teflon sheet to protect your iron and press. You don’t need a good fuse, just enough that the layers stick together while you work on them.

Cut the now-fusible pieces of the background fabric to the size of your cards. I like cutting first, then fusing to the other layers, as I can control everything. You could just fuse a big piece of your stiff double-sided fusible heavy weight to the fabric and then cut to size — your choice!

Once these are cut out, I spread out the backing fabric and put the fusible side of the cut cards down on the backing fabric. I used white muslin for the back of my cards. Then place the hearts on your background and press.

Pressing the hearts on the background with backing

Now cut the backing/muslin fabric to match the outline of your cards.

Valentines all fused and ready for stitching

Now is the time to stitch! I like messy stitching – I think it adds character, and you don’t have to try to be perfect! 🙂

Here is start of the stitching around the heart. I use my free motion foot and lower my feed dogs.

I like to go around 3 times and make sure the lines are wobbly. Because I like the look. But, you go with what you like!

Then, I put on my 1/4″ foot and do a border stitch to finish off the card.

Final edge stitching on fabric Valentine

Now they are ready for a personalized message added with an acrylic or permanent marker on the back, put in an envelope and sent to those you love and care about!