Cedar City Craft Fair Book Wreaths
Today me and my pal Tawny Caldwell (tawnyleigh.blogspot.com) are doing a local craft fair. I decided to post a few of the crafts that we would be selling there. A special thanks to my sister in law Ashley who helped me get some supplies. So along with the pics I'll give you instructions on how to do them yourself. Enjoy!
I love book wreaths! I think they are fun and unique and very beautiful. There are tons of different styles too so that you can make it your own.
This one is made to be a wall hanging more than a wreath. The form that i used was really simple and cheap: an empty ribbon spool! The taller they are the more full your wreath will be. Also when you hang it, I used a push pin and simply hung it from the hole of the ribbon spool. So the bigger the hole in the spool, the easier it will be to hang it up. Another thing that is cheaper than the foam wreaths ($5) is pipe cleaner from home depot. It is 97 cents, and strong enough to hold the pages without braking. Plus you can make 2 wreath forms with the one tube. personally I like the ribbon spools better because they are easier to hang, but if you want a wreath, with an empty center, use the pipe cleaner. The other thing you will need is a thick book you can rip up. I got mine from a local Deseret Industries. It was 50 cents for about 250 pages. Each book wreath uses about 50 pages, but it depends on how full you want it. To put it together you will need a hot glue gun.
Step 1: cut the top edge of the ribbon spool off so that its equal with the center cylinder. This makes it so you can form the front of the wreath with the sides easier. Also, I usually put cute scrapbook paper over the part of the ribbon spool that will face the wall, just so its a little more elegant.
Step 2: rip the book pages out and roll them into the shape you want. There are a lot of different ways; s shape, heart, circle are my favorite. This step can be pretty tedious but just roll or fold the paper to the shape you want then hot glue it so it stays. The heart wreath below I cut the time in half by after gluing the heart shape, I folded the whole roll in half. This makes the wreaths circumference smaller, but it goes by faster, and you use less paper. On this wreath I also used the pipe cleaner, so that there was space inside the center. I just hot glued a small piece of ribbon to hang it.
Step 3: Gluing the pages on. This can take up to 2 hours if its a big, full wreath, but it is easier if you have an organized system. If you just start gluing them on, it will drive you crazy trying to make each side look even. So. with the wreaths I glue them on in windows. so do one bottom layer all the way around (I start with the edge that will be next to the wall) and space them right next to each other. Then build the layers just the same but in the windows of the previous layer. When I am done, I usually go back in and fill in places that need more.
Thats all folks! hope the directions were helpful!
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