I wanted to craft something on my day off, but being that it was my day off I didn't really want to leave the house. So I rummaged through my craft stash and found the awesome buckets I got on sale at TJ Maxx about a month ago. The wheels started turning and I grabbed a garage sale book, Styrofoam balls, which I don't even know why I had them, skewers and paint.
I bought the buckets for the tag on the front, but 7 means nothing to me, so they would undergo a change. I gave the buckets a coat of blue craft paint. Spray paint would have worked better, but again I was not leaving the house, and blue spray paint was not in my cupboard.
Then came the time consuming part. Pull out pages, accordion fold, fold in half, repeat. Til I had a huge pile. Or so I thought. That pile you see was barely enough for one ball. So...back to pull out pages, accordion fold, fold in half, repeat.
After hot gluing on the pages it looked pretty sad. I started to think this was a total waste of time. But I pressed on and continued to fill in the gaps and tried to "make it work," as Tim Gunn would say.
Once I was finally done gluing and folding, I mod podged some scrapbook paper over the number tags, stuck a skewer in the ball and put it through the cardboard barrier I put in the bucket. To cover the cardboard I made a big rosette and called it good. The book-page topiary's now have a place on the tv stand.
*you'll probably see this here and there.
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It looks great. :) I've seen the book page crafts but don't have the patience to try them. lol I'm a very lazy crafter. ha ha thanks for linking up. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great day off and cute project. Glad I found your blog. Love your ideas.
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SOOOO SOOO DARLING, love this so much. WELL DONE. The blue tins and tags are so cute too. I made a Halloween cupcake liner topiary over the weekend I am featuring it tomorrow, can't wait. Thanks for linking up too. Jen
ReplyDeleteSo cute and clever and what a creative twist on book page crafting! Love the texture! You are one smart cookie.
ReplyDeleteReally Cute! I love all the fun things that can be done with pages!
ReplyDeleteLove these! It took time - but was a cute result. Great way to reuse books. I am hosting a link party on my blog this weekend about words/quotes (The Weekend Word Search). Please consider stopping by! Your project would be a great addition.
ReplyDeleteOh! I really like how those turned out! Can't wait to see what other lovelies you create! I'm your newest follower!
ReplyDeletesmiles!
How cute. I need to share this with all my bookworm buddies.
ReplyDeletethis is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThese are so so cute! Now I need to find a book I can tear apart!
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower - this is super cute! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteA book page topiary - nice, so original - I haven't seen one before. Thanks for linking.
ReplyDeleteCLEVER! CLEVER! CLEVER! Thanks for linking this one up too! Can't wait to see what you do next :)
ReplyDeleteHow absolutely cute are these? Totally of course.
ReplyDeleteBernadette
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How fun! I've seen book page wreaths but I like this even better!
ReplyDeleteYour creativity has been featured at CraftOManiac.blogspot.com Thanks Jen
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun twist on the Paper wreaths that are all over (including my wall!) Thanks for linking up to Topsy Turvy Tuesday's!
ReplyDeleteThis is so neat! I'm going to feature this over at Life As Lori! If you would like to stop by and grab my I was featured button please do so!
ReplyDeleteVery cute. I may have to make one...I have a huge book that I tore apart for my birthday chandelier and there are about 400 pages left waiting for a craft!
ReplyDeleteluv luv it..
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