Pine Cone & Book Page Wreath {Tutorial}

A couple of months ago, my sweet friend A and I got together one afternoon and made two pine cone and book page wreaths. We were making them for Fall but then we decided that our new wreaths were perfect for Christmas. My friend brought the pine cones and I had the old books. Last week I showed you how I incorporated this wreath into my magical mantel.

I can’t even tell you how much fun we had making these together….not to mention how inexpensive and gorgeous they turned out!

Beautiful, right?

Supplies You’ll Need:

• Pine cones and fir cones
• Books that you can rip pages out of
• Glue gun and glue sticks
• Foam board
• Scissors
• Spray paint.
• Elmer’s glue
• Glitter
• Burlap or ribbon to hang wreath

Gorgeous cones!

Books – I used an old hymn book and literature book.

It almost felt wrong to rip out the pages, but I did it anyway!

I bought foam board at Hobby Lobby on 50% off for 0.99.  Then I cut a “wreath form” out of it and spray painted it brown.

Then heat up the glue gun and get started rolling up book pages.  Glue page rolls closed and then glue the page rolls to the wreath form.

Continue to glue page rolls all around the inside and outside of the wreath.  See those gaps between the page rolls? Don’t worry because once you do one layer of page rolls, you’ll do a second layer and fill in the gaps with more page rolls.

When you have two layers of book pages complete on the wreath form begin adding pine cones around on top of the book pages.  This step requires a LOT of hot glue because you want it to be very sturdy.

Fill in any gaps with fir cones {they are skinnier and more feathery than pine cones}. I love how the fir cones add a different dimension and shape to the wreath. Keep adding pine and fir cones until the wreath looks full and balanced.  It helps to hold the wreath up and stand away from it to see where to add more cones.

To make the pine cones sparkle we used Elmer’s glue and glitter.  You could also use a spray adhesive, but you’d need to be very careful not to get it on the book pages.  Unless of course you want the book pages to be all glittery and sparkling.  Drizzle Elmer’s glue over the pine cones and sprinkle glitter over the glue.  Be generous with the glitter!

A and I used three different glitters. Ooooo La La! Gotta love the bling!

Elmer’s dries clear so don’t freak out about the white glue.

Once the glue dries, you’ll want to shake out the extra glitter so it doesn’t shed all over the place. Unless of course you like finding glitter pieces on your face at the most inopportune times. Ha!

I added a piece of burlap fabric to my wreath so I could hang it.  After I tied the burlap on, I added a few book page rolls to the reverse side of the wreath to fill in where I covered book pages up when I tied on the burlap.  Does that make sense?

I love how the different textures of the pages and cones blend.  SO beautiful!

And so frugal!

A and I made two wreaths for less than $10!!!

One last look at my Pine Cone & Book Page Wreath!

{swoon}

I’m so excited y’all because I have SO many fun, crafty posts coming up!  The next two weeks are going to be jam packed with cuteness!  Stay tuned….

Have you ever made a book page wreath?

Linked to:

• Centsational Girl’s Crafty Party
• Weekend Wrap Up Party

Tagged as: book page, christmas, decor, pine cones, tutorial, wreath