I'm Gillian, a Scotland based home & lifestyle blogger. Follow along as I navigate this new journey sharing my life from home.
Today I have joined up with some fun gals to bring you a There for the Making: The Zero Dollar Challenge craft project. The goal of this challenge is to create something using what you already own. So, it’s all about upcycling and repurposing items in your craft stash. I don’t know about you, but I definitely have a lot of items in my stash just waiting to be used!
One of my favorite mediums to work with is book pages. Anytime I come across books whether it be at a thrift store, garage sale, or freebies from friends, I grab them up! I love recycling book pages into pretty crafts. For this challenge, I decided to use one of the books in my stash to create a book page flower. I have seen these pretty wreaths all over Pinterest and decided it was my turn to give it a go. Instead of a wreath, I wanted to make a flower, so I filled in the middle instead of leaving it open.
It’s the perfect piece for my new office/ reading room/ craft room space that I am redoing for the One Room Challenge.
Book Page Flower
Supplies:
Thrifted Book
Tape
Hot Glue Gun
Round Piece of Cardboard
Instructions:
1. I started with a piece of cardboard from my recycling bin. Using a paper plate, I traced the plate and cut out the circle in the cardboard.
2. Tearing pages from the book, I began rolling and stapling them. After doing a few this way, I found it easier to just tape them, so I switched to that method for the rest of the pages.
3. To begin assembling the flower, I hot glued one cone at each of the quarter marks on my circle. From there, it was easy to begin glueing and overlapping the cones to make the outer circle.
4. Next, flatten your cones down and assemble a secondary layer slightly lower and closer to the middle.
5. After three layers, I folded my final circle of cones in half and glued them to fill in the middle.
6. Fluff it and hang with a small wire or pop can tab hot glued on the back of your flower.
Here’s a sneak peek of it hung on my new chalkboard wall in my office. I’ll be sharing more of this cool feature wall on Thursday when I update my One Room Challenge space for Week #3!
To continue the Earth Day inspiration, be sure to check out my fellow participants in this months There for the Making challenge. Each of them created a beautiful project without spending any money, and all of them have something to do with repurposing – perfect for Earth Day!
There for the Making: Earth Day Edition!
2 Bees in a Pod | Wire Spool Plant Stand
Flourish & Knot | Painted Geometric DIY Flower Pots
Green with Decor | Chalk-Painted Table
My Creative Days | Painted Galvanized Planter
My Life From Home | DIY Book Page Flower
Personally Andrea | Rustic Three-Tier Wood Slice Stand
VinYet Etc. | DIY Copper Terrarium
To life feeling like home!
XO,
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April 18th, 2017 at 8:16 am
Hey Amy – we love book page projects and your flower is adorable! The frame is an excellent choice too 🙂
April 18th, 2017 at 8:31 am
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April 18th, 2017 at 9:01 am
It looks so good, Amy! It makes for great variety in your gallery wall display, and I think it would work so well as decor for a party or shower, too. What a lovely way of recycling an old book.
April 18th, 2017 at 11:12 am
I LOVE these wreaths Amy, yours is simply gorgeous especially on that beautiful green chalkboard backdrop. 🙂 I’ve never made one, your tutorial is so doable, thanks for sharing that… putting this on my to-do list.
April 18th, 2017 at 12:31 pm
I love book page projects and this is so adorable!!!
April 18th, 2017 at 3:41 pm
You know I love any kind of book page project! It looks fabulous!
April 18th, 2017 at 7:37 pm
I love the 3D and texture of this! It looks so good in the frame and on your chalkboard wall… thanks for your great tutorial, I might have to give this a try! xo
April 19th, 2017 at 5:20 pm
Thanks so much! It was so easy. I’m not sure why I never made one before.
April 18th, 2017 at 8:58 pm
This is so cute, I really love it! It’s perfect for your house!
April 19th, 2017 at 12:09 am
This is so cute! I love that you put it into the frame!
April 20th, 2017 at 9:42 pm
I never get tired of book page crafts, I love how you styled this on the vintage frame!
April 23rd, 2017 at 8:17 am
I love this bookpage flower. I never realized how easy they are to make. Now if I can bare to cut the pages from a book.
April 23rd, 2017 at 9:06 am
Me too! I was doing some research and was surprised at how easy it was to make this project! Definitely glad I tried it!
April 23rd, 2017 at 6:13 pm
I love projects using repurposed old books, and this flower is just darling! 🙂
I’d like to invite you to share this at the brand-new Farmhouse Friday Link Party! To celebrate the kick-off of this party, I am giving away a $50 Amazon gift card. I will also share your linkup on DIY Farmhouse Style Facebook group where I admin, which at this writing has over 130k members!
I hope to see you there! 🙂
Michelle
The Painted Hinge
http://www.thepaintedhinge.com
April 24th, 2017 at 9:07 pm
You KNOW I adore this! 😉 It looks fantastic in that frame on your chalkboard wall!
April 26th, 2017 at 8:29 am
That’s beautiful Amy!
April 26th, 2017 at 9:29 am
Amy,
I spied you on “Oh My Heartsie Girl” this morning. I must say, what an interesting concept for creating paper flower decor! Thank you for sharing your cleverness with us. Have a good day!
~Curious as a Cathy
Art Sketching Through the Alphabet “V” (Violin & Victorian Women)
April 27th, 2017 at 9:47 pm
Thank you!! It was a fun little project. Glad you liked it!
April 28th, 2017 at 6:20 pm
I love a zero dollar project! Good tutorial too. Thank you for sharing at the Snickerdoodle Create~Bake~Make link party!
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April 30th, 2017 at 4:27 pm
What a lovely project – congrats – you’re one of our Featured Guests at Inspire Me Monday at Create With Joy this week!
May 1st, 2017 at 7:23 pm
Awe! Great news! Thank you so much.?
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May 2nd, 2017 at 2:15 pm
i wanted to know how to make the book page flowers, so I found this post most interesting. I have a problem finding a book to tear up but, will try hard to do that. I really want to make that.
Glad I found you
Janice
May 11th, 2020 at 1:14 am
I LOVE these wreaths Amy, yours is simply gorgeous especially on that beautiful green chalkboard backdrop. ???? I’ve never made one, your tutorial is so doable, thanks for sharing that… putting this on my to-do list.
June 24th, 2021 at 9:20 am
Very nice vintage looking flower! Thank you. The pop up ads almost made me abandon this pursuit. Glad I stuck it out this time. Im definitely going to try this.
September 16th, 2021 at 12:27 am
Very informative
October 1st, 2021 at 5:46 am
Very informative