I may have mentioned before that I have a bit of a book addiction. I lurve, lurve, lurve them. So much so, I am a librarian and an author, so when I saw these some amazingly beautiful roses made from book pages I knew I had to give them a shot.
The tutorial is from a wedding site called The 100 Layer Cake courtesy of the talented Valerie Lloyd (FYI, if you don't feel like making your own, she sells them through her Etsy shop). The instructions were clear and easy to follow--not to mention beautifully photographed.
For mine. I used an academic journal that a university was going to recycle, and it was pretty perfect. The paper was nice and stiff without being too thick (I think card stock would be too thick), was a nice creamy color, had no pictures (though I did have to dodge a few graphs), and, of course, free. The only change I made to the original design was to add the red tips. I thought it'd look nice if the petals "popped" a bit. I used a mixture of scarlet and burnt sienna watercolor to give it that vintage-y red color. The only thing I didn't like about these, were that each one took FOREVER to make (especially the painting). If not for that, I would have made a bower over baby-girl's crib :).
The tutorial is from a wedding site called The 100 Layer Cake courtesy of the talented Valerie Lloyd (FYI, if you don't feel like making your own, she sells them through her Etsy shop). The instructions were clear and easy to follow--not to mention beautifully photographed.
For mine. I used an academic journal that a university was going to recycle, and it was pretty perfect. The paper was nice and stiff without being too thick (I think card stock would be too thick), was a nice creamy color, had no pictures (though I did have to dodge a few graphs), and, of course, free. The only change I made to the original design was to add the red tips. I thought it'd look nice if the petals "popped" a bit. I used a mixture of scarlet and burnt sienna watercolor to give it that vintage-y red color. The only thing I didn't like about these, were that each one took FOREVER to make (especially the painting). If not for that, I would have made a bower over baby-girl's crib :).