Handmade souvenirs are becoming more popular lately. If you want to be in a trend, we offer an interesting lesson - making a cover for a passport from different materials with your own hands. This will not only be a great entertainment, but will also create exclusive souvenirs for relatives and friends.
Interesting ideas and design methods
Making a cover for a passport can really be a fascinating creative process, because there are a lot of options for this standard functional element. You can perform the product by the following methods:
- Knit or crocheted.
- Sew from shreds.
- Perform fabric applique.
- Create from beautiful paper using scrapbooking technique.
- Apply decoupage to decorate the finished base.
- Decorate with exclusive stickers or drawings according to your own designs.
- To make of leather according to your own design.
So, there is plenty to choose from. Each option will be more or less suitable for a particular person. As a gift, it’s good for a man to make a unique present from leather, and for a teenager who has just received a passport, a cool cover with youth drawings or stickers is suitable.
Basic materials and fixtures
Since the manufacture of a cover for a passport can be performed in different ways, the set of sources will also be different.
For scrapbooking techniques you will need the following:
- Decorative paper, cardboard.
- Ruler, pencil.
- Scissors (possible with curly blades).
- Glue.
- Curly hole punch.
- Hand embossing tool.
- Additional decor (lace, ribbons, appliqués).
To complete the decoupage cover, you will have to prepare the following:
- The basis of leather, substitute, cardboard, thick paper (you can buy ready-made or do it yourself).
- The primer is white (acrylic white is suitable).
- Napkins or special paper with images.
- PVA glue.
- Acrylic paints.
- Brushes.
- Stencils.
- Additional decor (sparkles, special gels and other compounds).
- Lacquer.
If you want to work with fabric, materials and tools you need are:
- The fabric is of different colors (it is best to work with fleece and felt, as they do not require edge treatment).
- Paper for patterns.
- Pencil.
- Ruler.
- Scissors.
- Tailor's chalk.
- Pins
- Threads with a needle.
- Sewing machine.
- Glue.
- Jewelry (beads, beads, sequins, stripes, rhinestones, satin ribbons, bows, flowers).
The amount of materials is determined not only by the chosen technique of execution, but also by the design of the cover. The option in a strict restrained style can be performed from a minimum number of items from the list without additional decor and other frills. If you decide to create a spectacular gift, then you have to buy to the maximum and work hard too. But the result will justify the cost.
Scrapbooking
This technique allows you to create very beautiful passport covers. They resemble old family photo albums. Here, on the basis of special paper with a pattern, embossing or other decor, the remaining cut out parts are pasted. Satin ribbons, flowers made of paper and fabric are also used as decorations. You can make the cover design so that it also has a window with a photo of the owner. It’s easy to come up with different ideas.
This technique is especially suitable for making a gift in a romantic style for a young dreamy girl or a couple in love. Present the bride and groom a set of two covers made in a single concept or complementing each other. By the way, this can become a wedding souvenir for newlyweds, especially since a wife usually takes her husband's name and changes her passport. That’s the reason for the new cover. This gift will be a good addition if you make in addition to it another wedding photo album or a comic book. So you get a complete set of handmade souvenirs.
Decoupage
Original and beautiful passport covers are easily made using this technique. It is also called a napkin, as for gluing you can use ordinary single-layer table napkins or specialized decoupage cards. Most often they are made with photorealistic images. The work consists of the following steps:
- Preparation of the base and its primer.
- Sticking images.
- Drawing by brush or on stencils of a pattern, inscriptions.
- Coating with waterproof transparent varnish.
Before proceeding to the next step, the surface must be thoroughly dried.
Fabric applique
Very creative passport covers can be made from fleece or felt. These materials make it possible to easily cut out all kinds of shapes, sew parts on the front side, or even glue them together. You can make a cover with fun little owls so popular now or offer options with the image of the symbol of the year, zodiac sign, etc. as a gift to friends.
Cool passport covers
This option is relevant for adolescents who have received their first passport. They already feel like adults, but still love to express themselves in extraordinary bright things. You can make cool passport covers in any of the following techniques:
- Knit or crochet the base and sew on it a three-dimensional figure of some fun character.
- Do the same from the fabric.
- Decorate the purchased cover with original youth stickers that match the interests of the teenager.
- Draw a finished pattern with acrylics in graffiti style, and then varnish.
As you can see, there can be many options for an original gift for a teenager.
Men's passport cover
By any holiday, especially by February 23, there is always the problem of what to give to the chef, father, husband, brother. Strict business or original cool "packaging" for an important document will be a great presentation option for any date.
Men's passport cover can be made in different techniques and styles. Design is determined by the preferences of the person for whom the product is made. You can prepare a funny souvenir for a guy, husband, brother or colleague. For example, by February 23, make a thematic "military-patriotic" cover in a simple style or with a share of humor.
For the winter holidays, make New Year covers for your passport. His design, an unusual approach to the design of a standard product will surely surprise a man. And most importantly - you don’t need to rack your brains on what to give, and instead of banal socks and shirts - make a creative souvenir “passport clothes”. After all, she, like shirts, can be changed to suit the mood.
Thus, the manufacture of a cover for a passport is a simple matter. The main thing is to correctly determine the size of the workpiece, choose the appropriate design and design method.