Plastic, and Nothing But

Fused plastic has been a great medium to work with in my crafting endeavors. But I'm lazy, and handstitching, while awesome to see on my projects, takes a long darn time. Time for a new innovation in my crafting:

 No-sew fused plastic awesomeness!





Started with a rectangular piece of plastic (which in previous projects I have folded in to thirds and sewn up on the sides), and this time decided to make a single pocket wallet with an ID holder.

To make the ID holder I cut halfway in to the top fold...

...cut out a piece of parchment paper to serve as a placeholder for a credit card/ID...

...and ironed to fuse the edges.

(Pardon the gratuitous D&B card in these pictures, didn't want to possibly melt my license or credit cards!)






Next thing to do is make the bottom part resemble a wallet.

Just like the credit card slot, an appropriate size of parchment paper needs cut out and used as a placeholder so only the wallet edge fuses (pretend this dollar is parchment paper, don't actually iron money!)

Once the edges are fused, you may need to trim the edges if things did not line up perfectly when ironing it all together.








Aaaand here is the final wallet. Look Ma, no stitches!

Of course, it's a wallet, so you're going to need to fold it...

...once...

...aaaaand twice!








So there you have it, a super simple wallet made out of nothing but plastic! Unique idea for a bar wallet - interesting talking point AND it's just big enough to carry an ID and cash if you want to travel light. And it is also waterproof...should you decide you need to go swimming with identification...(hey, you never know)

In total the project took only 20 minutes to fuse, cut, and iron. Impulse crafting at its best!