Crafting Ideas for Gift giving

Crafting Ideas for Gift giving: fabric covered cookbook

Using a photo album for 4 x 6 photos you can create a fabric covered cook book that makes an awesome personal gift for a friend or if you like to share recipes for potpourri, incense mix this is an ideal way to do it.It makes a good gift that is both personal, inexpensive and eminently useful.

What You Need:

plain photo album size, for 4 x 6 photos
fabric- enough to cover your album with about an inch excess on all sides
scissors
iron/ironing board
Tacky Glue- or other fabric-friendly glue
small paint brush
card stock paper or something similar like 4×6 index cards,[to write or print your recipe cards]
embellishments, optional
Directions
Lay your photo album flat on top of the fabric to measure out how much you’ll need. The small fabric swatches that places like Hobby Lobby sell in bundles are the perfect size for this project. Cut your fabric so that it has about an inch of extra material all the way around the album. Iron your fabric smooth to get out any wrinkles.
Return the album to the face-down fabric and make sure that it is neatly squared up, especially if your fabric has a pattern that needs to be straight. Use your scissors to make four small snips at the spine of the album, as shown in this photo.
Starting at the spine then moving to the front and back covers, you can now begin to glue your fabric to the album
“Wrap” the front and back of the album with the rest of the fabric, just like you would the ends of a box you were wrapping with paper
To finish the spine, you’re going to fold the fabric on itself and then glue it to the album, just like in step four, but this can be more difficult because the surface you’re gluing it to is much smaller. You may have to clip off some of the fabric before you start folding if you find there is too much. Hold this part in place for a minute to help the glue stick and prevent it from coming loose.