Cover for children's birth certificate

With the birth of your little son, you begin a completely new life and become responsible in life not only for yourself and your spouse, but also for your newborn son. Every mother wants the best for her child, so she tries for this and does everything possible and impossible. A newborn child is born and receives the status of a citizen of the country in which he was born, which is supported by a document called a birth certificate. This is the first and important document until the age of 16, until your son grows up to receive a passport. Now the birth certificate is of a completely different type, not the same as it was before in the form of a book, so it is very important to keep it safe and neat. The size of the birth certificate is 17*24 cm, so it requires a non-standard large cover.Buying such a cover is probably even a problem, but perhaps finding something made to order, but every mother will be able to make an interesting soft cover for a certificate herself, as soon as she gets acquainted with this master class.

So, to sew the cover we take:
• Binding cardboard two sheets 19*26 cm;
• Sintepon;
• 100% cotton fabric in two colors with stars, one fabric on a blue background, and the second on a blue-gray background;
• Paper for scrapbooking from a children's set, two sheets 30*30 cm;
• Printed card “My first documents”;
• Blue die-cut napkin;
• Picture with Mi the bunny in blue;
• Silver-look metal corners, 4 pcs;
• Metal pendant cubes;
• Blue metal brads;
• Thin gray hat elastic;
• Salad eyelets and eyelet installer;
• Blue cut flags;
• A strip of white cardboard;
• Glue stick, double-sided tape;
• Adhesive “Scotch tape effect”;
• Curb hole punch;
• Scissors, a simple pencil, an ink pad for toning paper and a ruler.



So, first we need to make a hard cover. To do this, we need to connect two sheets of binding cardboard with a strip of white.


We cut a strip of white cardboard 6.5 * 26 cm. We divide this strip into three parts, 3 cm * 0.5 cm and 3 cm, respectively. Now we draw two bending lines under the ruler.


Using a glue stick, glue this strip on both sides of the cardboard, thus connecting the cover into a single whole.


Now we draw lines with scissors so that the cover closes well. Cut the padding polyester onto the open cover.


We glue strips of double-sided tape and glue the padding polyester.


We have softened the cover, now we take the fabric and cut three pieces.We immediately make provisions for cutting so that we can tuck the fabric later.


We iron the fabric and sew the pieces together. Now we lay it out and place the binding base with the padding polyester down. We smear the edges with a glue stick, wrap the fabric and glue it, carefully wrap the corners.


This is what our preform looks like, covered in fabric.


Now we cut out a strip of 6.5*25.5 cm from scrap paper and glue it on top of the white cardboard.


Now we need to design the cover inside.


Cut out two rectangles of 18.5*25.5 cm from scrap paper.


We also need to cut out two rectangles for the pockets. We punch holes in both of them.


Apply a glue stick to the edges and glue the pockets onto the endpapers of the cover. Sew both rectangles along the edge.


Now we cut out a rectangle 11*14 cm from scrap paper, take a card, a napkin and a picture, and in this order we will glue and sew it onto the cover.


We stitch along the edge of the cover itself.


Punch holes in the back of the cover.


Insert and tighten the elastic band and install the eyelets.


All that remains for us is to glue the endpapers inside the cover.


We put on metal corners and glue flags inside. The cover is ready. Thanks for your attention and good luck!