Playing with Fabric Tutorial w/Stephanie Dagan

Hello Everyone, Stephanie Dagan to share with a little tutorial on making a super cute mini album! What's ultimately unique about it is that the cover is constructed from fabric. Personally, I love to use fabric on my projects! I find it to be warm and easy to work with.

To create a fabric cover of this type, you'll need a piece of cardstock. Choose whatever color cardstock you like since we'll be covering it with fabric. The paper measures at 9" x 5.5". Trim a piece of fabric slightly larger than the cut paper.

Lay the cardstock on top the fabric and fold the edges of the fabric over it as I've done above. You've a couple of options to hold the fabric in position. First, a double stick tape roller laid across all four edges. Some should overlap onto the paper. The second option is to use spray adhesive directly on the fabric - it's a bit tacky, but holds extremely well! Just make sure to spray it on lightly and with enough protective covering behind it so as to not get adhesive on your table.

Bring the cover to a nearby sewing machine and stitch a border around it. This further secures the fabric to the paper. Note that the stitching is just barely shy of the album's perimeter - less than a 1/4" inch.

Now for the interior pages. I chose three different patterned papers and vellum paper, which exhibits a title and journaling block. The pieces of patterned paper are slightly smaller than the cardstock/fabric cover.

I doubled the papers and positioned them "inside" the cover before sewing them together down the center. Consider the arrangement order of your mini album pages before completing this step. After the addition of the sewn binding, the pages are "as is".

On the back interior cover, I glued a piece of woodgrain patterned paper to hide the folded over fabric. I also positioned eyelets for ribbon to secure the album closed.

Once the structure of the album is complete, I filled the album with photos and embellishments. Essentially, I used the DIY Shop collection, which I LOVE.

In designing the album, I opted to limit the number of pages so as to get straight to the point and to share only those photos that evoked specific memories. The hardest part was choosing the right photos!

I hope to have inspired you today - if ever a moment you create a similar album, please feel free to share it with us!

As promised, we've a formal congratulations to pass along to a member of the Gossamer Blue Kit Club whom participated in this month's GB/Crate Paper Challenge! Congratulations to Katrina Hunt and her cute pup!

Katrina, the layout's vibrant color palette and unique composition captured our attention right away! We "truly" love it ~ send your info to cpblog@cratepaper.com.

A very special thank-you to all whom participated in the challenge. We greatly enjoyed seeing your creations and appreciate them so, so much!! To check out the runner-ups, visit the Gossamer Blue blog!

Comments

Love love love love the mini!!!! GORGEOUS!! And HUGE CONGRATS to Katrina!!!

Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | February 26, 2013 at 04:39 AM

Congrats Katrina. Love this page :)

Posted by: Cathy | February 26, 2013 at 05:10 AM

oh my goodness!!! thank you so much. And Stephanie, that mini is adorable. I am going to have to try something similar since I actually have my machine out right now!!! Thanks again!!! Hugs, Katrina

Posted by: Katrina | February 26, 2013 at 05:54 AM

And I have to give credit for the picture on the layout to April Turner from UTurn Studios! She takes amazing pictures of pet and was kind enough to let me use the photo!

Posted by: Katrina | February 26, 2013 at 05:58 AM