Recycled Cardboard and Book Page Sunflowers
These trash to treasure rustic book page sunflowers are a great way to repurpose and reuse items that are headed to the landfill! Create beautiful paper sunflowers with this easy method that includes a video tutorial!
If you are on a budget and don't have a lot of money to spend on seasonal decor, but you want a beautiful home, these rustic book page sunflowers are for you!
How to make recycled cardboard and book page sunflowers
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I was craving a little craft project and didn't want to spend any money. Using
items I had on hand, I made several of these easy book page and cardboard
sunflowers. They are rustic, have that awesome fall texture and would be so
easy to customize with paint if you want more color!
Fall is my absolute favorite time of the year! I love the cooler, crisp days,
warm colors and the cozy feel of all things Fall! If you love Fall too, don't
miss my past
Fall DIYs and decor ideas.
Supplies used
- book pages
- cardboard strip cut from box with Xacto knife ( this would work too)
- hot glue
- recycled brown paper (or use brown kraft paper)
- brown craft wire
- scissors
- optional - warm fall paint colors
Steps to make book page sunflowers
I'll share some pictures here and then describe what I did below. If any part
of this is confusing to you, please visit the
video tutorial
where you can watch the steps in action.
Make flower center
I cut a long strip of cardboard from a box and then rolled it up tightly and
used hot glue to secure it. This will become the center of the book page
sunflower. I love the texture of the cardboard, and it's great to recycle all
the pieces for these DIY flowers! I give specifics on size in the video.
Cut book pages
I carefully tore out several pages from a thrifted book, folded and cut each
page into 4 pieces. I believe I used 14 pieces for each sunflower.
Make petals
Squish one end of a page, crumple the entire thing, then add a drop of glue and press it to the edge of the cardboard sunflower center we made. Continue in this manner, overlapping the petals so the sunflower is full.Make stem
I recycled the brown paper that comes in my Amazon boxes, twisting a piece
to form a stem, and wrapping it tightly with some brown wire to hold it in
place. I created a bit of a spoon shape on one end, gluing the paper to hold
it in place. This piece is hot glued to the back of the sunflower.
If you like, you can lightly spray, stain or paint the petals with coffee
stain or acrylic paints to create colorful flowers!
I would love to hear from you if you love these or decide to make your own!
I added them to
this hanging wicker basket and a painted fishing creel basket in my studio for now.
If you love neutral Fall decorating, these rustic sunflowers made from book
pages, cardboard and brown paper, will be a beautiful (and free!) addition to
your home.
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You might be interested in these paper Fall crafts too!
Oh my goodness... these book page sunflowers are darling! Love the neutrals and their texture! SO good!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty, and rustic, Cindy! I love these! I'm happy to be featuring them in my 21 Fall DIYs post tomorrow!
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