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C is for Christmas Wreath - made of book pages

C is for Christmas Wreath - made of book pages
My hubby would say that is a bad thing... but then again he has the Beastie boys song "She's Craft" as my ring ton on his phone and he always does the shifty eyes when he talks with someone about my creativeness. LOL.

I thought I would share this easy and CHEAP way to decorate for the holidays. I spent less then $5 on this entire project.

Supplies:
1 - book (preferably paper back and one you wont read again) with aged pages
2 - small branches from a tree
3 - yards (give or take depending on the size of the next item) of yarn
1 - large 12" letter, number or symbol... either chipboard, cardboard or foam core
1 - wire or straw wreath base (if using straw you will need a piece of fabric to wrap around it till it is covered)
1 - hot glue gun and glue
1 - sheet of printable transparency
3 - clear ornaments
3-4 - public domain images from the internet
3 - glittered wire floral curls
1 - yard of ribbon
2 - yards or so of gold thread
Brown ink pad
Bronze and Gold Ritzy Ditzy Glitz
 
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Step 1Step 1 & 2

Step 1 & 2
STEP 1 - Ink all outer edges of the book pages in brown.
STEP 2 – Rip pages gently from binding and ink remaining last side of pages.
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13 comments
Nov 16, 2011. 7:41 AMjanemermaid says:
This is a brilliant idea! I made one this morning for our shop window...We are having an upcycled Christmas window this year. As we are a charity shop, we have no budget for display, but plenty of volunteer staff, so I set them to work. I made ours double sided so it can hang in the window and twist round....All that from one book that was going to go to the rag man anyway...Now I just need to find something to do with all the clothes we can't sell as they are damaged in some way. Ideas anyone?
Nov 26, 2011. 9:27 AMKLBoot says:
Love this project! Just make sure you check the subject matter of you book first. A few months ago I was making paper flowers for my sister's wedding. I realized after I cut out a few pages to start making the petals that the book was about very graphic battles of WW2. Needless to say I had to find a new book to use.
Nov 20, 2011. 11:45 AMkatket56 says:
I haven't made one yet, but I'm going to - think I'll use old magazines - anyone tried that?
Nov 17, 2011. 10:08 PMaf001 says:
NICE
Dec 27, 2010. 11:47 AMCrLz says:
Beautiful and elegant, very nice.
Dec 10, 2010. 5:32 AMnanosec12 says:
It is very pretty, and I will admit that I am not a fan of destroying books.......but I guess this wouldn't really make the same impression using another source of paper, and at least you not 'burning' the books because of all the 'bad stuff tainting our childrens minds' that you found inside of them.

Very creative !
Dec 10, 2010. 12:53 PMsupersoftdrink says:
lovely! I was so mad at my 3 year old for ripping up some books yesterday... now I can do something with the pages.
Dec 10, 2010. 11:12 AMpolettdaniel says:
Yeah, it's very funny and creative!
Dec 10, 2010. 7:27 AMpeace, love, art says:
Wow, that is beautiful! Merry Christmas!
Dec 9, 2010. 6:31 PMChrysN says:
Wow, that looks amazing and very unique.

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