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!)