Fabric-Covered Guest Books

I wanted every item that had to do with the wedding to reflect our personalities. So as I was browsing around looking for guestbooks, I couldn't help but notice that most of them were pretty plain and boring. Instead of the usual guestbook, why not cover it in a pretty fabric that matches your wedding colors and perhaps add some fru-fru details? I do this to cheapo plain scrapbooks and photo albums as well. I covered our guest book in a black, satiny fabric, added a black and white damask strip of fabric folded accordian-style, kept in place by a silver scrapbooking accessory (found at Hobby Lobby). This is our guest book:

I played around with some other albums and this is what I came up with for them:

Tips for fabric-covering books:
-Use a hot glue gun to make sure your pretty work stays put.
-Wrap the fabric around the cover of your book similarly to wrapping a present in gift wrap, folding down corners, etc.
-Run a line of glue down the cover of the book where it's bound, but keep the rest of the glue to the inside cover, folding the fabric around to the inside
-You might be tempted to pull the fabric super-tight to smooth your fabric cover, but make sure you can close the book and that it isn't pulled too tight
-Cover the ugly remaining fabric ends on the inside covers of your book with either a pretty peice of cardstock, cut to fit, or a contrasting piece of fabric with the edges either hemmed or glued under
-In order to be able to open the book, you'll need to make 2 small cuts in the fabric down the center of it where the binding of the book is, just cut until you get to the book, then you can fold the fabric in like wrapping paper and glue
-Be funky, unique, and creative: your guestbook, album, scrapbook, journal, etc. should reflect your awesome personality!