Wreath Craft - Book Wreath

Have an old book with yellowed pages hanging around? If so, you can make a fun wreath out of it, newsprint crafts are SO HOT right now. (If not, a quick trip to the Goodwill might help you there!)

I even had gold paint, so I painted around the pages edges while the book pages were still together to give it an extra-antiqued look. Turned out great! But I forgot to take a finished photo! Will have to do that and update this post soon!

Please enjoy a half-way there photo!





Hot-glue that sucker. Surprisingly fast!

What you need:

-Old book with yellowed pages, preferably not too long. The book I used was about 7 inches tall.

-Cardboard cut into a circle with diameters of 5 inches (inner) and 7 inches (outer). I just used an old box sitting nearby.

-Gold paint is optional.

-Hot glue gun and lots of glue sticks.

Roll your paper uniformly and it will look good. Do three rows. For the innermost row I did a fancier pointed roll facing outward to give a lovely "sunburst" effect.

This craft ended up looking like one of those cool sun or mirror clocks that looks so great on the wall, the sunburst. I want to put a circular mirror on mine and hang it over the mantel or something!

Looking down the barrel of a gold-tipped wreath.

Thanks to Oliver Twist by Dickens. (I have another copy, so the superfluous one got crafted. Kinda like being pwned! Crafted!)

Baby Towel Tug and Chew Square

I really don't know what to call one of these things. But I made one for a friend who is having a baby. During both of their ultrasounds, the baby wouldn't show his/her parts so they have no idea if they are having a boy or a girl! Kinda wacky and exciting! So I tried to stay gender neutral, and I heard later that they are doing a duckie theme in their nursery, so the yellow will fit in extra well! :-) Congrats Jess! Have some useful crafts!




How to make:

-Soft flannel, I got non-pill forming kind. About 1'x1'.

-Pieces of ribbon. I hear that grosgrain works great for this, but I don't have a lot of that kind of ribbon. 3'' or 4'' long.

-I did an inside-out kind of trick with the ribbon so that when I turned out the towel toward the end the ribbon was good to go.

Do I think this is the prettiest one? No. I would totally improve it and make it better and cuter. Learn from me and make yours amazing!

Quick and Fun!