Book Page Valentines {Book Page Craft Week}

This week I am dedicating to Book Page Crafts! On Friday I would LOVE to feature some of your Book Page Crafts! Please e-mail me (firefliesandjellybeans(at)gmail(dot)com) your links/photos of your Book Page Crafts so that I can show them off on Friday!

Book Page Valentines!

Here is what you will need:

Book Pages

Red (or pink) card stock

Adhesive

Embellishment

Scissors (and Paper Cutter)

1.) Cut your card stock into 4ths (for an 8.5 X 11 card stock each rectangle is 4.25 X 5.5)

2.) Tear your book pages to fit on your cards

3.) Now you have 2 options:

A. cut out heart shapes out of more card stock OR...

B. Cut out hearts shapes out of the book pages... Both work great and look very similar!

4.) Attach your book pages, hearts and embellishments

5.) Add a cheesy sentiment:

"I love you more than words"

"Our love is like a story book story"

"Words are not enough to tell you how I feel so, listen to my hear!"

For your tweener/ teen

"Your too cool for words!"

If you really want to add some spice to your card you could tear out the saucy pages out of your romance novel! : )

Book Page Craft Week - Paper Reed Diffuser Flower

This week I am dedicating to Book Page Crafts... I have 3 (maybe 4) crafts made with book pages! On Friday I would LOVE to feature some of your Book Page Crafts! Please e-mail me (firefliesandjellybeans(at)gmail(dot)com) your links/photos of your Book Page Crafts so that I can show them off on Friday! Are you excited to start?!? So am I! Here we go!

Do you have a Reed Diffuser? I have a few on each level of my house! I am going to show you a fun way to accessorize your Reed Diffuser with a book page flower. Come on! It is easy and cheap and I am going to show you how to do it!

Here is what you will need:

Book pages

Ink

Bamboo Skewers

Scissors

Green Floral tape (I got mine from the Dollar Tree!)

Ribbon (Not pictured)

1.) Fold the corner of your page to the other side and cut off the right triangle that you created.

2.) You should now have a square. Fold your square in half and in half again to make it into 1/4ths

3.) Use your scissors to cut a curve on the OPEN side (NOT the folded side)

4.) Fold in half again... these creases will help shape the flower!

Now you should have a circular shape... it is OK if it is not perfect it will come out in the end!

5.) Ink the edges and the BOTH sides of your circle

6.) Make a smaller circle the same way and push your skewer through the middle of your two circles. (I used zigzag scissors for the littler circle)

7.) Shape your flower by pinching the bottom of the flower and twisting just a little

8.) Use your green floral tape to wrap around the bottom of the flower and around the skewer to hold it in place.

9.) Tie a ribbon around the stem to make leaves and put it in your Reed Diffuser! The skewer will soak up the oil and bring it to the flower!

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How To Make a Book Page Wreath

I am finally jumping on the Wreath Band Wagon. Have you seen all the amazing wreath out there in craft blog land?! There are so many amazing wreaths to choose from. So I am adding mine to the mix, hoping that you will like it! I call it the Book Page Wreath because I used book pages to decorate it (clever, huh?). AND I have 4 ways for you to embellish it!

Here is what you will need:

Foam Ring (I got mine from The Dollar Tree)

Ribbon (Also from The Dollar Tree)

An old book (This is a romance novel so I thought it would be perfect for this valentine craft!)

Craft glue

1. Rip out some pages in your book. The ring I used was about 8 inches wide and I used about 25 pages.

2. Fold your pages in half, make a good crease and rip them in half.

3. Now fold those paper in half, make a good crease and rip them in half.

4.place on strip of paper under the foam ring and glue the two edges to the back...

...and keep going all the way around. I found that if you put a little more glue on the ends it holds better.

Here is what it look like about half way around from the front.

Go all the way around the ring. When you are done make sure that there are no gaps. If there are just put another strip of paper over it to cover it up.

Hang it from your ribbon and you have

Option #1: Leave it plain

OR...

You could print a word on the back side of scrapbook paper (or card stock). Make sure you use the MIRROR IMAGE option! Cut out the letters with an Exacto knife and flip them over.

You can use straight pins to attach the letter to the wreath.... that way if you want to change it later you can!

Hmmmmm, that seem a little hard to read... I think I need to have the letters darker.

I used markers to color my letters red and I also outlined with black. I add some red ball tipped pins for added bling and I love how it turned out!

Option #2: Love Letters

OR...

Cut out strips of paper (Mine are 1 inch X 12 inches)

grab some buttons (never mind the Circe book pages... I did not use them)

Fold your strips back and forth and back and forth...

Glue the ends together and let the glue dry.

Flip it upside-down and push the sides down to make a circle.

Put a blob of Hot glue in the middle and hold the flower in place until the glue cools.

hot glue a button onto the front.

Use a straight pin to attach it on to your wreath and you have

Option#3: Love letters with Flowers!

OR...

Take off the Love letters and you get option #4: Just Flowers!

I am sure that you can think of even more things to do to change it up! It would be really easy to change with all the different seasons and holidays!

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