How To Make A Book Cover Out Of A Paper Bag

Brown Paper Bag Crafts: 15 DIY School Supplies

You lot don't need paper grocery bags to make any of these cute, DIY Book covers!

So you can't make a brown newspaper bag book cover because you lot don't take whatever brown newspaper bags?

More power to yous, my friends!

I do have to acknowledge that I have a soft spot for that costless kraft paper, amenable to then many crafty uses, just it is past no means the only material available for creating a sturdy temporary embrace for your books.

We are resourceful, nosotros are recyclers, and nosotros can make ourselves an awesome book cover out of practically anything.

Some of us, however, have accomplished new heights in the realm of DIY book covers, and this round-up is an homage to a few of those crafters who not simply crafted an awesome, eco-friendly book embrace, but who likewise lived to write about it:

1. If you lot're any kind of fangeek, check out the post at La Carmina showing off books covered with pages from J-Pop fan mags. It makes me long for a Teen Beat with a few Corey Haim vs. Corey Feldman glossies.

2. For a straight-upward cloth book cover that looks and behaves a lot like a paper bag book cover, try out this fabric volume embrace tutorial by Natalie Jost. It's got the math to enable you to encompass any size book that you want.

3. This sewn patchwork volume cover from V and Co. is a stashbuster'south fantasy. It's quick and easy and the math is relatively pain-free, and after yous make a large project, you tin can use up merely a few of your throwaway scraps to make your subway reading materials suitably mitchy-matchy!

4. This paper patchwork book encompass from iHanna's blog is definitely Not removable, just yay for scrapbook paper! And if you know you're going to read that Sherrilyn Kenyon Dark Hunter novel over and over and Over again, why bother pulling off the book comprehend when you're done? Might every bit well brand it permanent!

5. A murphy chip book encompass from Make and Takes is an excellent way to requite a picayune shout-out to your favorite brand, even when you're not currently munching. Of course, my Master'due south in archival librarianship is screaming in my head at the thought of fifty-fifty a washed and dried greasy chip bag snuggling upwardly side by side to my paperbacks, and so I'll just mention that the silver inside lining? Would look GREAT facing out!

Other awesome book embrace ideas?

I'm a writer, crafter, Zombie Preparedness Planner, and homeschooling momma of two kids who will hopefully someday transition into using their genius for good, not the evil machinations and mess-making in which they currently indulge. I'm interested in recycling and nature crafts, nutrient security, STEM education, and the DIY lifestyle, however it's manifested--making myself some underwear out of T-shirts? Done it. Teaching myself guitar? Doing it right now.

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