Day Five - It's coming up paper roses

Novel paper roses

As you know, I did an altered book yesterday and loved it so much, I did another one in the middle of the night last night on Ambien and it turned our pretty freaking cool. But I still hadn't had enough of the book art. I bought two Unfinished Desires novels at the Dollar Tree when I made the novel wreath the other day and only used one for the wreath. So today, I made roses for another wreath, or wall art - I don't know. We'll see where it takes me. However, I need more time for a finished product. This is very easy and fun, but labor intensive.

I had several shades of pink paint left from the Ombre wall art I did a few months back and pulled out the jars. I used foam brushes and tinted the pages four different shades of pink before I cut each page in half to made the rosettes.

Spirals

Round the corners, then begin to cut in a spiral until you get a small round tab in the middle. Now you start rolling from the outside in (you will see the rosette form), then put a dab of hot glue on your tab and press into bottom of rosette. The tutorial I got it from on Pinterest gives much better instructions. You can find that pin on my Knitting & Arts & Crafts Board as well as my 365 days of Pinterest in my life Board.

Tinted pages