Card Pocket for Little Cards

Business cards, gift cards, loyalty cards- they all need a place to go!

With the holidays usually comes an influx of gift cards. How about a cute way to contain them in your bag, along with all those loyalty cards and business cards that accumulate? Here’s a truly easy and fast little pocket tutorial to help you out. It also makes a simple way to present a merchandise card you’re gifting to someone. Made of felt, there’s no need to line it, and you can even use a bit of a felted sweater or felted fabric. Add a couple buttons from the bottom of the button box (they don’t even need to match) and a bit of cording or string, and you’re ready to get started.

If you’re lucky enough to have in hand one of my fold-over business cards, use it as a pattern to help you cut the felt and find the right place for the bottom button.

Here we go!

Materials

• a piece of felt at least 4″ by 9″. You can use purchased felt or it’s especially cute to use a felted sweater or fabric you’ve felted yourself

• two buttons – mine were about 5/8″ in diameter. They don’t have to match, be creative!

• a piece of thin cording, string, pearl cotton, etc, cut to 9″ long

• matching thread and a sewing machine (although you’re welcome to sew it by hand as well. A blanket stitch would be beautiful)

Instructions

1. Cut a rectangle from the felt, 3½” wide and 9” long. If you have my business card, you can use it as a pattern by folding the felt in half, placing the unfolded card on top of the felt so the fold line marked on the card is about ½” away from the folded edge of the felt. Cut around the card leaving the fold of the felt in place. That should give you a rectangle that is 3½” wide and 9” long.