You can purchase paper back fusibles like heat n bond lite or steam a seam lite or wonder under at Joanne's or hobby lobby by the yard, it is fairly inexpensive. I buy it by the bolt from fabric.com, they sell it by the yard also.
You trace your applique shapes onto the paper side, fuse it to the wrong side of the fabrics, cut out the shapes on the drawn lines, remove the paper, place the applique shapes onto the background fabric, fuse into place then stitch around. I use a small blanket stitch or small zigzag most of the time.
Last edited by ckcowl; 11-12-2015 at 04:16 PM.