Materials:
plain album. Cheaper is better.
1 yard fabric. you might be able to get away with a little less.
1 pieces of fleece the size of the album.
cardboard. I used a cereal box. Ensure it is clean!
hot glue gun and lots of glue sticks. I used a low-temp, but I think hot would work better.
embellishments if desired. I used ribbon.
1) Take apart your album.
2) Cut your card board. It should be about 3/4 to 1 inch smaller than the cover.
3) Iron your fabrics and ribbons. Once it's on there it will be too late!
4) cut your fabric. You will need 2 pieces per album. 1 piece should be about 2-3 inches bigger all the way around the album. the other piece should be about 2 inches bigger than the cardboard.
5) Cut your fleece. This will pad the cover and help hide a multitude of sins. It needs to be just barely bigger than the front of the cover.
6) Now we start glueing! Start with the fleece. Trim the corners and pull it snug. run a bead of glue along the spine edge to keep it down.
7) Line up the spine edge. It needs to wrap around once. Trim the outside corners of your fabric. Glue it down on the top and bottom, leaving a little room around the spine side. Tuck the raw edges of the corners under as you glue the outside edge.
8) When doing the spine side, ensure to leave some extra fabric to make it easier to bend the corners. mark the holes for the posts. cut a small X into the fabric where the marks are. put glue around the holes (to help prevent fraying and moving) and press the fabric down. now glue it down the rest of the way. Be VERY careful to minimize the amount of fabric and glue that will be caught in any folds or bends of the cover.
9) Now we attack the piece of cardboard! glue down the top, bottom and outside edge, trimming the corners. Before you glue down the last side, size it. You should find that you need to pull the fabric to the the inside of the album a bit. So, you'll have a bit of fabric without cardboard. Figure out how much and glue it down.
10) Attach any ribbon you want. I did a simple wrap around.
11) Glue the cardboard down on the inside to cover the last of it!
12) Save some fabric to use as binding cover. I'll add some pictures of this when I get new posts, the ones that came with the album were crappy and are alreay stripped...
Yay!! Perfect for my wedding pics!
The #1 thing to be aware of is the bulk in the folds of the album binding. I wasn't and it probably won't close nicely on it's own. I'll probably add ties of some sort so it stays closed.
So, go out and give it a try!
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