Two or three books of similar size and color comprise the bulk of this week's tutorial. This took me a good three hours or so to make, primarily because I kept getting glue from my new high heat glue gun on my fingers and hopping around in circles! So, if you go from a low heat to a high heat glue gun, get ready for some blisters, because there sure is a difference between the two!
Tools:
- Scissors
- Glue gun
Supplies:
- Glue gun sticks
- Packing tape or duct tape
- Two or three old books
- Ribbon or rope
- A few stick pins
- Leftover piece of foam pipe insulation
- In order to make the wreath form, use scissors to cut the pipe insulation into the size of wreath base that you want.
- Tape the two sides together with packing tape or duct tape and you have an upcycled wreath form!
- Tear the pages out of the books.
- Taking one or two pages at a time, loosely fold them back and forth in your hand. Avoid creasing- unless you want sharper lines of course!
- Press the "folded" page together at the bottom and apply glue in between each of the folds.
- Fold a small tab at the bottom of the page and set in desired spot on wreath.
- Continue around the wreath in a circle, making more rows as desired.
- In the center, I cut some of the pages in half lengthwise and continued as I did with the full size pages. I don't really like how that portion turned out for me, so let me know if a different technique worked for you!
- Once you have the wreath mostly covered, come back and insert a page where there is an open spot. Be sure to apply glue to both sides, and you won't need to "tab" these.
- Cut a desired length of ribbon to make the hook.
- Glue the ends of the ribbon together.
- When the glue has dried, attach the ribbon to the back of the wreath with glue and a few stick pins.
- Share your pictures and comments of your version of the wreath right here!
Leanna is Hipcycle Scholar at Hipcycle. In her spare time, she enjoys finding new uses for her garage sale finds, particularly anything to do with the written word. She would love to hear from you at [email protected]!
