How to make recycled book page flowers from the new book Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book By Jason Thompson

Check out this super cool tutorial from the new book

Playing with Books: The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book

that shows you how to make paper flowers from recycled book pages and a stick.

 

This is so pretty I thought I'd try it but just a bit different.

I got out my Quilling Fringer tool and a page from a book and started fringing strips of the book page.

I wrapped the fringed strips around the tips of the branches.

 

The effects were different based on where the type was on the paper. I could also "sculpt" the flowers differently, flat, slightly curled, leave some straight in the center and the outsides spread out. Lots of different looks could be achieved.

 

I think they ended up looking a bit like tiny fruit tree blossoms. My porch bunny liked it!

If you like altering books and playing with the pages you will positively love this book, packed full of great projects and inspiration!

Playing with Books:

The Art of Upcycling, Deconstructing, and Reimagining the Book

By

Jason Thompson

In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated an extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art.

The content encompasses a wide range of techniques and step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique, upcycled objects. The book combines in equal measure bookbinding, woodworking, paper crafting, origami, and textile and decorative arts techniques, along with a healthy dose of experimentation and fun.The beautiful high-end presentation and stunning photography make this book a delightful, must-have volume for any book-loving artist or art-loving book collector.

Jason Thompson is the founder and president of Rag & Bone Bindery, and author of Making Journals By Hand (Rockport Publishing 2001). He is highly regarded as a book designer with integrity who creates unique handbound books and other fine bindings, as well as a popular blogger who writes about bookbinding, book arts, artist books, and paper craft.

To see more inside peeks into Playing with Books pop on over to this post at Jason's blog.

Comments

[mary]

Oh...dreaming of a bouquet like this for my office!

I love your fringig/frilling gizmo!

[Janel]

These flowers would look adorable on top of my book shelf! I recently paged through this book and I have to get it!!

[Suella]

This looks great. I've just ordered the book. I can see using some of the techniques with fabric as well. Whee!

[mothers day flowers]

This really looks nice. You get to recycle stuff and make it an art or a simple gift even for your mom specially if she's a bookworm.

[Cindy@ silk flower arrangements]

I'd love to make project like this, but do you have any using alternatives to "Quilling Fringer tool"? Anyway I love the little branches with small paper flowers above. Thanks for this lovely inspiration.

[Karen Sellers]

Thank you for sharing this tutorial. Your flowers are incredibly lovely!.

[Cris@ flower delivery Sydney]

Wow, how cool is that :) It takes some artistry and creativity to produce something like this, from a junk into art, isn't it amazing?

[Lecuyer Bobo]

Thanks for the tutorial. I have so much learning that I gain from it.