Fall DIY Decor: How to Make a Book Page Pumpkin (Video)
Finding the right Fall DIY Décor can be challenging, especially with all these wonderful DIY ideas out there. One superb project to try is to make a beautiful book page pumpkin. You can use old or new books for this project, depending on what you would like the outcome to look like.
Fall DIY Decor: How to Make a Book Page Pumpkin (Video)
Image via: BHG
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Supplies
- Old Books – don’t throw them away!
- Scissors
- X-acto knife
- Cardboard with a size double the size of your book
- Pencil
- Glue
- Hot glue
- Twigs or other items that you can use as a stem for your pumpkin
- Embellishments like twine, wire, felt leaves or some green fabric or ribbon
- Orange acrylic paint and brush or orange spray paint (optional)
Image via: Whimsy Workshop (Etsy)
Watch the video on how to make Book Page Pumpkins:
You can find the link to the video here.
Directions
- Fold your cardboard in half at the larger side. Using your pencil, draw on half of a pumpkin shape, making sure that the pumpkin is a little smaller than you’re books pages. With the scissors, cut the pumpkin out of the cardboard. If you unfold your cardboard now, you should have a template of a pumpkin.
- Remove the front and back page of your book, being careful not to remove the spine. The pages of your book have to remain bound together.
- Using your folded pumpkin template as a guide cut the books pages one by one with the x-acto knife. Continue until all your book’s pages have been cut to resemble half of a pumpkin. Now trim off any excess paper.
- Apply some hot glue to the spine of the book and press it together.
- Apply a good amount of glue on the outside of the front and back page and glue them firmly together.
- Apply some glue every few pages near the binding of the book and glue the pages together.
- Paint the edges of your book pages with paint and let it dry.
- Apply a small amount of glue to the end of the twig or twigs and push them into the books spine.
- Decorate the twigs with your embellishments.
Image via: Interiors By Studio M
The most time consuming part of this Fall DIY Décor project is to cut all the pages of the book, but the rest of the project is fairly easy, and the result will compensate the effort and time you will spent on it. You can make a number of different sized pumpkins to use even as a centerpiece or to decorate a mantle or small table.
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