Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

How to make a scrapbook wrap

by Cyndi on February 12th, 2008

Technique Tuesday!

Like I told you yesterday, I can’t complete this wrap until the album itself if finished, since I don’t know how thick it’s going to end up being. So what I did was to cut a piece of base fabric several inches longer than the current width of the entire album when it is opened and laid face down. I want my wrap to…well, to wrap around the album when it’s done. This isn’t meant to be a traditional book cover with nicely mitred corners and all. It’s kind of messy, which is what most Guatemalan fabric lends itself to.

First, I cut a piece of lightweight striped cloth that was meant to be a tablecloth. I cut it to wrap the album, with the stripes going up and down. Next, I cut pieces of heavier weight placemats, only as wide as the top of the album, and spread them over the surface, with their stripes going horizontally.

I used a large zig-zag stitch and sewed down the face of the wrap in five spots to anchor the strips in place. Then I sewed each strip of fabric horizontally to the base fabric along both their top and bottom edges.

When the album is finished, I’ll create some type of tie or bungee thingie to hold the wrap together.

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