Using Fabric In Scrapbooks
Fabric can be used in many ways to enhance scrapbook pages. A favorite fabric can be used as a background or as a border to enhance dimension and add texture to your layout. Various shapes and sizes can also be cut or punched out of fabric. These items can then be glued onto your background or borders, or turned into stickers and attached using a Xylon machine. There are so many varieties of color, texture, weave and pattern of fabric - much more so than is available in patterned scrapbook paper - allowing a great deal of creativity and imagination. So if you are ever stuck for inspiration with your normal scrapbook supplies, look further to the fabric store! Fabrics with a tighter weave will be easier to glue straight onto your page. You can also wrap the fabric around pieces of card to create an interesting raised effect and hide fraying edges. Spray mounting glue can be useful for sticking fabric down successfully. Ideas: You don't have to buy a huge amount of fabric. Quilt shops have a multitude of small pattern designs in cottons which might be suitable, and they sell them in "fat quarters" which are perfect for your needs. Think about rummaging in vintage clothes shops, car boot sales, garage sales and charity shops. You might find the perfect 1970s fabric for a 1970s themed page, for example. Just be careful of the quality of the fabric, make sure it is washed and ironed well before you use it, and be aware that the finished scrapbook page will not last forever. Some fabrics look great frayed. Cut a little larger than you require, then pull a thread across the grain where you want the fraying to stop. Using a needle, carefully tweak out the threads until you have the desired effect. This effect works especially well with hessian and other large weave fabrics. If you are worried about using a particular fabric in your scrapbook but have fallen in love with the design, you can always try scanning it into your computer and then printing the image out.
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