Creative Help: DIY Book Decor?

I have never done this but looks really interesting.Maybe this will help you. https://www.pinterest.com/lindsayjwhite/old-books-into-art/

I remember seeing one that was like a hut or similar to round bird cage. For readers digest size book. You fold all the top corners back to center of book. Glue back to front and add hanger to top. Some people spray paint them. Considering how thin RD has gotten you might have to use 2 or them. Also for larger pages, 3D snowflakes. Need 6 pages each. Square them up. Fold diaganal, corner to corner, then fold again corner to corner. Triangle has 2 folds on one side and one on other, with page edges at bottom. Cut straight across from single fold toward double folded side. Most of way but not all way. Carefully unfold. Start in middle and roll edges toward each other. Place small piece of tape to hold. Flip over and do next the same way. Flip and do the third one, flip again and do last one. Do all pages same way. Take 3 and pile one on top of other, holding by corners. Staple the 3 together at corner. Do the same with other 3. Now put two halves together at corner and staple. Gives you a 6 pointed snow flake. Pick which way looks best and hang with fishing line. If you can figure out origami you could hang a few birds. Or just go back to paper airplanes. The dresses you have are cute.

I make "book stack" lamps to order from discarded books with "faux" covers and spines put on with Mod Podge. Here's an example: with a custom shade too.

If You go to Etsy you will find pictures/patterns to make Designs by folding pages on your books, its called Book art/Book Folding

Those look so cool!

I love the dresses garland

I repurpose into wreaths, trees and a few other designs.

Winter project is creating a half bedroom into a work room. Instead of painting one wall, I plan to use my evening leisure hour to color in the new adult coloring books, one sided, using markers. They will cover the wall eventually, attached with spray adhesive I found at Wal-Mart. It really is like spray super glue. Don't touch. When the wall is covered, I will spray it with a water proof acrylic. I have an old dresser that is my first project from DIY Hometalk. It will be my newly refinished, hinged front storage cabinet. I can't wait to get started!

Tool catalog 700 pages folded and curled.

One of my favorite ways may be the simple one. I modpodge pages to the sides of boring waste paper containers. Picture burgundy trash can with gold trim with the pages from Poetry book edged with gold then mod pogged on. or you could use song book, novel

Maybe use deep picture frames? Would also keep dust out of your books.

Instead of buying matched boxes and containers for my craft room, I used book pages on all kinds of boxes to tie the room together along with black and white contact paper and tissue paper. I also use it for details in furniture redos.

Stack large books (coffee table book size) on top of each other for a great end table. Everyone that sees it loves it and wants one :)

Pinterest has several folded book page projects and YouTube has gobs of videos from basic to very advanced. For Christmas, most basic is find center of thinner book, fold top down to spine, then fold same page against spine again to a triangle shape. There will be a small overhang at bottom. You can either fold it up even with bottom or cut off. You need to do this fold 15-25 pages both directions from the center, depending on how full you want your tree to be. You can then swag with ribbon, thin strand of beads, etc. Add a small wood star at top. Some stamp on either side with carolers, nativity scene and then words on opposite one. It's very cute!

Thank you, Nancy. I believe you are right! I got some of the spray adhesive on my hands and nothing would take it off, not even nail polish remover. That always works of sticky stuff but not this. Those coloring pages would be up there permanently! Probably a "What was I thinking?" project that needs more thought so it doesn't become an "OOPS!" project!

I ended up getting it off my hands by washing them when needed for several days and using my finger nails, scraping it off. Everything I touched stuck so several days of scraping finally worked.

Thanks Susan. I think ya'll are right. The big wall may not be the place for them. Maybe poster board in a thrift store frame is safer. Thank's for the input!!