Over at Craftberry Bush there is a tutorial on how to make a book page pumpkin. Donna of the blog As The Card Rack Turned decorated hers a bit differently. She also shared a another tutorial.
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Over at Craftberry Bush there is a tutorial on how to make a book page pumpkin. Donna of the blog As The Card Rack Turned decorated hers a bit differently. She also shared a another tutorial.
These adorable egg cups will have all your Easter guests asking how you made them! When you tell them it was simply hot glue they will be astounded. I also bet if you change the color of the “drips” to red these could easily be transformed into a Halloween decoration. Pop on over to the blog Fixasjalv for the tutorial on how to make hot glue Easter egg cups.
The Craftberry pumpkin (and apple) tutorials seem to have been inspired by Lucy’s memories of helping her dad create a phonebook seat.
Her very nice post reminded me of a great-aunt’s recycling of the big old fat Sears and Roebuck catalogues – which she methodically folded, page by page, to create doorstops.
Having taught high-school math, she was my algebra tutor. I did not absorb the math, but did learn how to make the doorstops.
She folded each page diagonally – down from the outer corner to the center and when she was finished, the doorstop was shaped like a tiki hut. The front and back catalogue covers were simply glued together, to form a cylindrical or conical shape.
A reader at Craftberry wondered how to make the phonebook stool. It may have been a similar process, but probably required an extra fold – to remove the point (which is fine for a tiki hut, but not good for sitting).