Old book page wall art

I've seen old book page wreaths in stores,

and I love them.

I already had an old book

and was using the pages

 to create mixed media art.

I used the rest of it to make this

flower/wreath below.

I just used what I had...

a piece of foamcore board,

an old book, and

a pinecone for the center.

I just tore the pages from the book,

rolled them into cones,

and hot glued them onto different sized circles

that I drew on the foamcore.

I used at least a hundred cones for this one.

Then I hot glued the pinecone in the center.

Doesn't take long really,

once you get used to making the cones.

Also be sure you have a good hot glue gun.

Mine quit working in the middle of this project

and I had to manually push the glue through the gun.

This project can be done many different ways,

and I'm sure there are plenty of how-to's

to be found.

Try making one yourself,

and let me know how it turns out!

Savor the day!

Yvonne

Tea with Lemon Photography

Happy Valentine's Day to all.

Herbal (my own mix) tea with Lemon, my all time favorite.

Happy Tea on Tuesday!

For Valentine's Day I'm having it

 in a tea cup that my husbands great aunt painted

back in the 1980's.

No hearts,

but pretty flowers are on it.

Yep, tea with lemon...

I thought I would Google those words

and see what happened.

Well ....

I happened upon a website called

Tea with Lemon Photography.

I went to take a look

and noticed she makes altered books,

drinks tea, sews, loves photography and more.

My kind of blog.....

http://www.teawithlemonphotography.com/

Hope your day is a happy one!

Savor the Day!

Yvonne

Altered Book

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

 and has time enough.

       ----Rabindranath Tagore

This is a little altered board book.

I wanted to share with you

how I altered a childrens board book

very inexpensively.

This book measures about 4 inches square,

but they do come in many sizes.

I bought the childrens board book at the thrift store for 19 cents.

I found quite a few board books for less than 39 cents a piece.

I then gessoed the pages,

added watered down acrylic paint and let it run where it may.

After the paint dried

 I added some butterfly stickers

that I also found thrifting.

To add to it I decided to put in some

butterfly quotes. 

I found a lot of them in my quote collection.

This is one of the inside pages.

I put the largest butterfly sticker I had on the front cover.

Lastly I sprayed matte acrylilc sealer on all the pages and the cover.

I could continue to embellish this little book,

but decided to call it finished.

This little book went to my daughter Amy,

 as part of her birthday present.

She's not a little girl anymore, 

in fact she will be getting married this year.

 but she still loves butterflies,

and so do I.