Make a Fabric Covered Mouse Pad
Original post by Sarah @ Renewed Upon a Dream, please visit her website for more great ideas!”
I’ve been using the same mouse pad at my home computer for years (and years and years). I believe I got it when I started college. It may have been free… I’m not sure, but I haven’t been too keen on it for quite some time. But, it’s just a mouse pad, so I never thought I should replace it, it just didn’t seem like a big deal. Well, over the weekend, I was thinking about what kinds of things I could do with some extra fabric I have laying around. One thing I thought of was the St. Patrick’s Day wreath I showed you yesterday, and another thing I dreamed up was covering my mouse pad with pretty fabric so that it is not so funky/scary anymore!
Genius right? I know…
Ok, probably not, but I was happy about it at the time. I went about making my dream of a pretty mousepad a reality. First, I picked a fabric & cut it to size, just using my mousepad as a template & cutting around it with some extra around the edges so that it would fold over to the back. Then I covered the front of my mousepad (the part with the picture) with Mod Podge & stuck my fabric onto it. Flipping it over, I hot glued the edges of my fabric to the back of the mouse pad, carefully folding in the corners.
Then I stuck one of Brendan’s medical books on top of it to make sure it stuck & dried good
Once that was taken care of, I applied 3 more layers of Mod Podge to the top of the mouse pad over the fabric to seal it & make sure it held good in place.
I waited about a day to start using it so that I could be certain that the glue was all good & dry. I love my new mouse pad now!
It’s so cute & the fabric covers it very well! I will be keeping this in mind in the future if I ever get sick of this fabric & want to replace it with another, but for now, I really like how this looks! It’s such an improvement from what it was before!
See what I mean, kinda… different. And old. I’m so glad I thought of doing this! Do you use a mouse pad? What does yours look like?
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