Fabric Embellishments

Learn to Make Fabric Embellishments

Fabric embellishments add a special dimension of art to your scrapbook pages that can be unique, elegant and eye catching. Thanks to Charmedgirl77 for providing clear instructions in this video about how to make them, you, too, can learn to construct fabric embellishments in any shape you want. It’s a simple technique, it’s inexpensive and will help you exhibit your genuine inner creativity.

By using Mod Podge decoupage adhesive to give body to the fabric design you cut, you can make a substantial piece of art that can be molded, shaped, sewn, colored, written upon, folded and gathered; whatever you need to do with your design to create the embellishment you desire! The simple car design she’s working with in this demonstration is fancied up with complementary fabrics, buttons and thread. She tells us that she made the artwork to enhance a scrapbook page that she was making to commemorate a family trip to DisneyWorld. The humorous cartoon-like element give a child’s perspective to the page, and what could be more appropriate for a fantastic trip like that?