Book Page Leaves

Can you stand another post involving book pages?  I suppose that question makes about as much sense as:  Can you stand another post involving spray paint?  Don't be silly, right?

I was all set to do a post that was more Christmas themed, but decided to eek this one in, so you could plan around it for Thanksgiving if you wanted.

Like, I'm so sure, you're waiting to see what I'm up to before you finalized your Thanksgiving planning.  

You can probably figure out what I did.  Being the good bloggy buddy that I am, I'll be thorough and tell you anyway.  You will need:  Book pages, floral wire, a leaf template (I Googled one), hot glue, branches, vase or container.

First find your leaf pattern.  Place it on a stack of pages and cut around it.  Next, cut floral wire.  I used 12" lengths, but that was really too long.  Eight inches might work better--you can be the judge.

I just placed the floral wire about 3/4s up the back of the leaf and kind of "zig-zagged" the glue over it, pressing the wire into the glue with the tip of my glue gun, if I needed to.

Scrounge up some sticks in your local stick-scrounging spot.  Place your sticks in a vase.

Now comes the fun part, wind your wired leaves in place on your sticks.  I suppose you could glue the leaves right to the sticks, but the wire gives you more options and you can reuse them or move them later if you'd like.  You could distress the leaves with your distressing ink pad if you wanted--that would be really cute, too.

This project goes from "to do" to "ta da" in just a few minutes!


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