Re: [lace] decorating book covers with lace

2005-10-22 Thread Diane Z
As a lurker, I'll chime in on this one as I'm an ex bookcover maker. Weronika, you're right in thinking that lace is too fragile to be wrapped around the bottom of a book cover and slid over a shelf. So just skip the edges!. When I had art, or fragile fabric to use for a turned edge (glued)

[lace] decorating book covers with lace

2005-10-21 Thread Weronika Patena
I've been thinking of asking this for a while, and since everyone's complaining about the silence... I recently started scrapbooking. I have a few albums, all of which have boring single-color covers. So naturally I thought about decorating them with lace! How would you go about that? 1. How

Re: [lace] decorating book covers with lace

2005-10-21 Thread Lorri Ferguson
I personally would not use lace on an outer cover, unless it were under plastic. But decorating inner pages with lace would be great. For the cover you might use one of the many 'lace pattern' papers. Check the specialty papers in the scrap book, wedding depts. and office supply stores. I found