crafty question

[Magic Mom]

This is a question for a school project DD is doing. She has to make a scrapbook for social studies. Before we start, DD is doing the project, the graded part. This is just about the cover. She is stumped at how to make one (so am I) and I am not about to BUY a scrapbook for a school project. I don't mind buying some paper and maybe a few decorative details that she wants, but I am NOT buying the whole scapbook. So what can she use to make the cover? She found some heavy cardboard, but how should she cover it?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

If you have fabric and batting you can make it fancy just like a real scrapbook in the store.

 

[Magic Mom]

That's an option. The fabic store is a good drive away, but we could make the trip.
Thanks.

 

[java]

You don't even have to go out to buy stuff- check drawers for outgrown tee shirt- you can make the "cardboard" puffy with batting- or even another plain tee shirt or leftover socks.
Is she going to three hole punch it? To connect all the pages together? If so make sure you make those holes in the fabric too.



"your scrapbook cover must be thicker and harder than the average scrapbook card stock page.

Some materials that can be used to make a scrapbook cover are:

Thick card stock (24lbs or harder)
Chipboard
Cardboard (from home: consider using your cereal box covers!)
Vinyl/Plastic
Thick Acetate
Lexan
Acrylic
Custom cut chloroplast
Wood
Leather
Stitched Materials (over card stock)
Etc. (Honestly – as long as the material is thick and durable you can use it to make a scrapbook cover).

Then you have to worry about binding. The easiest approach to binding is to punch wholes in your scrapbook cover materials (and ensure that all of your internal scrapbook pages can be punched in the same way). *If you are working with rare materials that are not readily available in your home…you will probably want to get a professional shop to punch for you.

(Print shops have many of the supplies (from numbers 1-8) and should be able to produce the wholes for you as well).

That said…once you have the wholes it’s time to finish. O’ Rings are the most flexible for sure and will give your scrapbook album and scrapbook covers they need to open and close with ease. If you tie ribbons around the rings you will “fashion” your scrapbook covers up with just right amount of eye catching material needed to evade the look of those plain silver rings).



Read more: http://scrapbookingdirections.com/2009/scrapbook-album-scratch/#ixzz0jUCDLMak a few ideas from the web to get your "ideas" flowing."

 

[pezheadmeg]

What size paper does the project need to be?

Staples, Kinko's, and Office Max can bind with coil for a few dollars. If you do that with a vinyl cover, you can put the cover materials right on to the vinyl. Just use clear labels for the text.

 

[Disney Doll]

What dimension does the actual book have to be? Does it have to be biiger than 8 1/2 x 11?? If not, why not just get a 3 ring binder and then decorate the front and back covers? You could still cover the whole thing with batting and some sort of fabric or whatever.

Instead of spending money on cotton batting, see if you can find cotton in rolls instead of cotton balls. Our grocery store sells both kinds near the first aid stuff. Roll out a couple of rolls of cotton, cover it with some sort of material (as a PP suggested, you could even use an old t-shirt or a cheap pillowcase ro something) and it's "poufy".

 

[jenlynn0808]

I had to make a 'book' for a college class. I used cardboard and covered it with left over wallpaper (my parents had just finished wallpapering the kitchen). She could also use wrapping paper, contact paper, or have her tear an old gift bag and use that. If she wants to keep it simple and decorate it up with the title, she could even use a paper grocery bag (the kind we used to make book covers out of, way back in the 80's ).

Oh...how about a doutang (sp?) folder (depending on what size paper she is using). You can find them (Target) with or without the pockets and she could decorate the cover herself then too.

 

[Magic Mom]

I had to make a 'book' for a college class. I used cardboard and covered it with left over wallpaper (my parents had just finished wallpapering the kitchen). She could also use wrapping paper, contact paper, or have her tear an old gift bag and use that. If she wants to keep it simple and decorate it up with the title, she could even use a paper grocery bag (the kind we used to make book covers out of, way back in the 80's ).

I think this is what she will do. Print some pictures and make a collage on cardboard. She didn't think the fabric idea fit the theme.

Thanks for the ideas everyone!!

 

[tommya60]

D had to do this for a class project, I provided cardboard in the size they needed, the group covered it in wrapping paper, then decorated the cover. I have a rolodex punch and rings, so they used that for binding, but you could just three hole punch everything and used binder rings from the office supply store to hold it all together.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

you can also use some watered down elmers glue and a foam brush and cover the cardboard with paper.

another fun album is one using cup cozies from starbucks. A friend just did that as it was so cute, but small.

 

[MnMomtoboys]

I'm gonna guess that she is in 4th grade and is doing a state project. Am I right?

 

[Magic Mom]

No, close though. 5th grade- Civil War.