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| Halloween & Christmas book crafts, 2011-ish |
This wasn't my first foray into book pages crafts. - I did a fun Christmas tree book craft and a Halloween "ghosts popping out of a book" paper craft a few years ago. I displayed both of them on the front desk of the library I worked in at the time. They were fun, so I knew I'd be into the pumpkin one when I saw it.
The pumpkin book page craft wasn't too far off from the Christmas tree project. - Same basic concept. I found somewhat mediocre step-by-step instructions over at Creations by Kara. You can get the directions here. There are other sites with better directions, but the project isn't too terribly difficult once you get going.
I won't go into the play by play of the process since there's a link to instructions above, but the basic premise is to cut out a pumpkin template, which you then use to cut the book pages into shape.
5-7 pages at a time is a good estimate for how many pages you can cut at once. Any more than that and the cut outs get a little distorted, or the pages are too thick to get a scissor through.
I only made one pumpkin so far, but I think he may need a smaller friend. I used green ribbon I already had in my crafting stash, and the stem is a stick from the yard that I cut down to size. Just like the how-to directions, I spray painted a light coat of orange around the outside to give it a more pumpkin-y feel.
One of the more annoying parts about the way it turns out is that it takes a little bit of coaxing to make the pages stay where you want them to. They didn't really fan out the way I wanted them to, but I managed to mess with it long enough to get it to look okay. Maybe fewer pages would work better. Overall, turned out cute! Kind of a fun, literary autumn centerpiece for the table.
Ta-ta for now.
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