{"id":691,"date":"2014-10-03T01:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/?p=691"},"modified":"2014-10-03T01:14:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T05:14:20","slug":"the-raven-book-pages-halloween-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-raven-book-pages-halloween-wreath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Raven Book Pages Halloween Wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on my recent post about Halloween Crafts<\/a>, here is the big item I made. I was inspired by this Halloween Edgar Allen Poe Wreath<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I ended up with!
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To make it, I used the general directions on the link above. I started with a foam wreath form I got at Michael’s. And I picked up a trade paperback of Twilight at GoodWill for $1.34. (Hey, it had to be a book I didn’t mind destroying!!) Layers upon layers of pages both front and back of the wreath. Then I also tore strips to fill in around the inside “ring” of the wreath to hide the white foam in the center.<\/p>\n

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I then curled up pages and tied them with string and glued them on to the top. I filled in with more pages as I felt I needed. I did a little bit of watered down brown “aging” to the edges of some pages and tinting some of the pages as well just to give it some depth.<\/p>\n

Then I added a little bit of craft moss and finished it with a raven figure I also picked up a Micheal’s. The feet were wired together, so I cut it and straightened the wire and pushed it firmly into the foam frame. That was enough to hold it solidly in place.<\/p>\n

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To hang it, I finished with a decorative ribbon .<\/p>\n

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It took probably about 300 pages of the book. Keep in mind, these are larger-than-regular paperback pages too, so plan on using up pretty much ALL of a book in making this. It took me about two weeks total work time. I would do it in stages since it was very time consuming and there’s only so long you can work with hot glue at a time without burning yourself and calling it a day! LOL<\/p>\n

I found it best to prepare the pages in batches because it always took way more than I thought it would and when the hot glue was flowing, I didn’t have time to stop and fold pages after each glued in piece.<\/p>\n

I was so pleased with how it came out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following up on my recent post about Halloween Crafts, here is the big item I made. I was inspired by this Halloween Edgar Allen Poe Wreath. Here’s what I ended up with! To make it, I used the general directions on the link above. I started with a foam wreath form I got at Michael’s….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[1256,1260,1144,1251,1261,336,1139,1263,1252,1262,1264,1265],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-general","tag-book-pages","tag-book-pages-wreath","tag-diy-halloween-wreath","tag-edgar-allen-poe","tag-edgar-allen-poe-wreath","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-wreath","tag-handmade-wreath","tag-the-raven","tag-the-raven-wreath","tag-wreath-from-book-pages","tag-wreath-made-from-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phoenixfiredesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}