Here are the simple book page ornaments we've made for our little tabletop trees, including a punched paper snowflake garland, Mod Podged balls and these pretty little origami flowers.

In my previous post about simple, white Christmas decor, I told you I'd give you directions to make these flowers. I call them Post It Note Flowers because they work up beautifully using a 3" x 3" square of paper, so in a leap of naming logic there ya go. They are really origami kusadama flowers and they've been around forever. I'll give you a link to an origami website at the end of this post in case my instructions lead you hopelessly astray. ; 0 )





We've made ours out of vintage dictionary pages to go along with our simple white Christmas theme.
And the Live, Laugh, Love ornaments? Simply book pages cut into small rectangles then Mod Podged onto Christmas balls. I hand wrote the words on each ball with a Pigma pen, then sealed them all with clear acrylic. You could also use a Cricut or Silhouette for the words, or print them and cut them out to match the book pages and Mod Podge them on. Simple, pretty and inexpensive. We like!
Here is a link to a real origami website with great instructions and lots of samples for these pretty flowers...
And the Live, Laugh, Love ornaments? Simply book pages cut into small rectangles then Mod Podged onto Christmas balls. I hand wrote the words on each ball with a Pigma pen, then sealed them all with clear acrylic. You could also use a Cricut or Silhouette for the words, or print them and cut them out to match the book pages and Mod Podge them on. Simple, pretty and inexpensive. We like!
Here is a link to a real origami website with great instructions and lots of samples for these pretty flowers...
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/origami_kusadama_flowers
I'll be joining the parties on my sidebar beginning with the Saturday bunch, even tho I'm posting on Sunday. Yeah, I slacked a bit this week, sorry ladies. Come join the fun and see the neat projects posted this week!
I'll be joining the parties on my sidebar beginning with the Saturday bunch, even tho I'm posting on Sunday. Yeah, I slacked a bit this week, sorry ladies. Come join the fun and see the neat projects posted this week!