Use this sewing tutorial to make a DIY gift card sleeve from fabric scraps or layer-cake-size fabric. The gift card holder is the mini tote bag style for a DIY tree ornament idea.

Purse Style Gift Card Holder Idea

When you have a stash of too many fabric scraps, turn them into this gift card holder purse. It resembles a mini tote bag using the ribbon as the strap.

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Even though it is for a Christmas gift card holder, you can use it for any other occasion all year. The gift receiver can reuse the tiny tote bag for the next gift-giving time.

Supply For Making Mini Tote Bag For Gift Card Sleeve

Use the fabric scraps or one piece of layer-cake-size fabric. The light-weight fusible interfacing is also optional.

Use ribbon or make a thin bag strap from the matching fabric adapted from this fabric strap tutorial.

• 1 piece of 9″ x 6″ fabric
• 1 piece of 9″ x 6″ lightweight fusible interfacing
• 2 pieces of 5″ long ribbon
• Disappeared ink fabric marker. I use this dual-purpose fabric marker.
• Pins or quilting clips
• Thread
• Ruler
• Chopstick
• Scissors
• Sewing machine
• Clothes iron. This cute steam iron is great for small sewing projects.

Tutorial To Make Gift Card Holder Bag

The video tutorial is also available. Click this link to watch the Gift Card Sleeve Tiny Tote Bag tutorial on my YouTube channel, and subscribe for more videos.

Fuse the fusible interfacing on the wrong side of the fabric using a clothes iron.

Fold the fabric in half lengthwise with the wrong side of the fabric on the inside.

Pin the ribbon ends on both short sides of the fabric, with around 0.5″ between both ribbon ends, to resemble a bag strap.

Unfold the fabric with the right side of the fabric facing up. Fold the fabric again lengthwise with the right side of the fabric on the inside.

Pin it or use quilting clips. Sew along the fabric raw edge with a 0.25″ seam allowance, and skip 2″ for the opening gap.

Clip all four corners to reduce bulk. Turn the fabric right side out. Push each corner with a chopstick.

Fold the opening gap inward, and press the fabric with a clothes iron.

Fold the fabric half widthwise, press it with a clothes iron if needed, pin it, and then topstitch along the left and right sides.

The cute little tote bag is ready to use now as a gift card holder.

The Size Of The Gift Card Holder Pouch

The gift card holder is around 2.5″ x 4″ and will fit up to five gift cards.

If you want to make the tiny tote bag ornament larger to fit the original packaging of the gift card before snapping it in half to separate it, measure the dimension of the whole original gift card packaging, multiply by two and add 0.5″ to the length and the width.

The total length and width are the size of the fabric and fusible interfacing that you need to make one gift card holder bag.

To put the gift card tote bag on the tree, use the tree ornament hook or attach the ribbon strap directly to the tree, just like the ornament.

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Quick And Easy To Make DIY Gift Card Sleeve For DIY Tree Ornament