I've never even seen these trees. How lovely! It's Jan 2023 now. This is when I plan arts and crafts activities for the year. We have a cute little retirement cottage with no room for arts and crafts. I gather all my activities and do them on my shaded patio in spring and summer. I'll soon be making a trip to Salvation Army and pick up some books for trees!
Wow 😮 fantastic 🎄🦋🧚🏻♂️🧚♀️ great ideas ,I loved it.i have my book 📚 ,good for children 👶 I will try it .thank you so much for sharing your beautiful paper Christmas 🎄,.🦋🙏
This brought back memories from my childhood of making book trees out of Reader’s Digests and painting them. We also glued macaroni on them and my mom spray painted the trees.
Oh my gosh, Linda! You just took me back about 40 years! When I was in 3rd grade we used Readers Digests to make Christmas trees and angels! After folding the pages, our teacher sprayed them (I don't think she trusted 3rd graders with this part) the colors that we requested. My mom saved my sister's and my projects for years and years. Thanks for sharing this idea; it brought back fond memories.
I have a Bathroom Book of Great Literature we have read and cannot donate (it was in the bathroom). So I will do what you did with this book (500+ pages). I started 3 days ago. I used scissors, pinking shears, a rotary cutter, and sandpaper. Not as leafy or as gorgeous as the two you made for sure! I went to bed at 5:20 am this morning and my floor is not carpet and is covered in the tiniest of scraps from the paper. I painted the sycamore balls with Craftsmart classic gilding, and I am going to hotglue the sycamore balls on the book. This morning, the day after Thanksgiving, I took a small magazine and did the same process with scissors (no rotary cutter, sandpaper or pinking shears!) and was finished in 30 minutes instead of days! I was not so proud of my 500+ page book. It felt like 1000 pages, and it does not look as beautiful as your books at all. Maybe I will make one more with 200 pages. . . .
Thank you I just watched you New England Christmas and asked about your tree. It is really great. You might put it in the window to let the sun yellow it. It'll yellow with age anyway.
I went to a book folding class at my library about a year ago and made a piece that said JOY. I can't wait to pull that out for my Christmas decor. I also folded a Christmas tree, made a heart for my adult daughter for St. Valentine's Day, and a sailboat for my mom's birthday. These all had patterns found on Etsy. I am so glad I took advantage of that class since they can't have it this year. It really is a relaxing craft and a nice way to repurpose old books. Thank you for sharing 💗
I remember making poinsettia with the old punch cards (I forget what you call them) but mom would bring home a box of them and we would make wreaths and poinsettia flowers spray paint or she would have glue and glitter and let us have fun for the holidays. So much fun and memories. Thank you for reminding me of those memories
Great project. TYFS. If you have some heavy gauge floral wire you could make wreaths or smaller ornaments in any shape you desire and hot glue some cinnamon sticks or star anise around. You could also tie strips of fabric around the wire or wrap the wire with fabric or yarn. Thrift or recycle an old plaid shirt or sweater or use some ribbon you have.Stay safe and healthy everyone ❤️Happy Holidays
I too made one of these as a young girl. Mine was spray painted gold and had a wooden angels head and wings for Christmas. My mother kept that thing for at least 20 years. Lol. I like yours better. 😄
Love your videos! Have always been intrigued with New England! An added bonus are the gorgeous sunsets you include! Happy holidays from Subscribed in SC!!!
I think these are beautiful in their own unique way, so rustic; yet elegant!😍 I love the tattered look! Now... Off to the Goodwill for a book haul!😊 Blessings, Vancouver, Washington State🌲
Thanks for sharing this idea.....like most we made trees with old books when we were childern, but I love the idea of clipping and shreading... looks very natural and I think better...
I love this tree! I took an actual workshop at my local library on book folding crafts. There are endless patterns for creating nearly anything by folding book pages. I really like the rustic organic look of yours!
Love this, I have to say, this video was so satisfying to watch, the transformation, amazing! I love the look of the paper trees with the plates, it’s as if they go together. Well done! 👍🎄⛄️🛷❄️❤️
Thanks for this great share, Linda! I have some old books and I hate to throw them away, this is a great alternative and also makes a unique Tree! Have a happy day, friend!
I absolutely loved this, you have a beautiful gift of decorating and making us laugh , the dog tree topper caught me off guard, and I really needed a laugh today. again thank you Linda and god bless.
Saw this in your video when you created your lovely pine cone tree and had to see how you managed to get such a lovely effect on a folded book page tree. I think it is gorgeous and will try to do one too. Always looking for new ideas. Thank you.
Thank you so much for providing the name of the music in this video. It is, indeed, the tune I asked you about after an earlier video. I hope you will continue to provide the music names, as I seem to share your taste!
Very nice!! Crafting is all about trial and error! I have had of my most successful craft's by doing something, thinking there's no way this is going to look good and in the end l have love how it turned out. 🙂🍁
Many thanks for sharing your book tree project! I love how they turned out, and want to add to my 2020 Christmas decor projects. (I have a few discarded books which will come in handy.)
That’s the part that I’m on is fluffing and I used a book that was over 300 pages.. my hand is so sore.. lol.. but I was just cutting the fold. I actually folded the that bottom tip up under the flap.. but it will take me long time ( hoping my hands hold up) thank you I love it..
Awesome tree, it gorgeous.. I was one that made my tree from Readers Digest. But this puts a whole new spin on a book tree and absolutely I'm going to try your way, thanks..
I went to a book folding class a year ago and made a lovely piece of Christmas decor. My son said "Did you look at the name of the book?" I hadn't bothered to look, I was so into learning a new craft. Well I ended up gluing Christmas ribbon over the spine because it was something about a s*xy divorcee. 😁
