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Homemade Vintage Music Book Page Wreath

December 4, 2012

A Homemade Christmas

I am back with another post in our A Homemade Christmas series!  I hope you have been catching all of the other posts in this series… if not check them out at the bottom of this post.  My mouth is still watering from Heather’s homemade Pecan sticky buns recipe from yesterday.  Yumm!

Today I am going to share a tutorial for a wreath I have been wanting to make for some time.  I have always loved the book page wreaths I have seen all over blogland and Pinterest.  But mine is extra Christmas-ey because it is made with music pages!  I don’t know about you, but Christmas is not complete without music – all of  the beautiful, traditional Christmas carols just sets the tone for the season.  I have to confess I usually pull out the Christmas music before Thanksgiving, and then the day after Thanksgiving it is all Christmas music, ALL the time until Christmas…

Vintage Music Page Wreath

I actually had wanted to do this project during my 31 days of Pinterest projects since I knew I wanted to use it as part of my Christmas decorations. Well, I didn’t get it done then, but I did finish it yesterday and am putting the final touches on my mantel today (full mantel post coming up tomorrow.)

Vintage Music Page Wreath

Here’s my supplies:

  • an old hymnal or music sheets (I found this old hymnal for $1.00 at a thrift store and I LOVED the old yellowed pages and that it had some beautiful, old hymns.  Don’t worry, I looked it up on Ebay and it is not worth a lot of money or anything like that.)
  • a wood plaque or cardboard circle – found at Wal-Mart for $1-2
  • an ornament or something for the middle (found this pretty snowflake ornament at Michael’s – $2.00 after 1/2 price sale)
  • ribbon to hang the wreath

Vintage Music Page Wreath

Carefully tear or cut pages out of the book you are using.  Then you start rolling and gluing the pages into rolls.  This was the tedious part but it wasn’t too bad.  It probably took me a just over an hour to make this entire wreath while we watched a Christmas movie last night.

Vintage Music Page Wreath

I wanted my wreath to be a be pretty big and very full so I started out gluing the rolls on the outer edge of the circle.  I made sure that the tips of the outer roll were all facing the same direction.  I find if I space them out at the half and quarter marks to begin with it helps me keep my rolls straight going around instead of ending up on a slant.

Vintage Music Page Wreath

Glue a layer all the way around.  Then begin a second layer. I just moved the rolls farther into the middle and still only glued the inside point to the wood circle.

Vintage Music Page Wreath

For the last and 3rd layer, I had to cut off the small tips to make the rolls shorter.  I would make the roll and then cut about an inch off the more pointed tip.

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These rolls got glued on top of the points of the 2nd layer.

Vintage Music Page Wreath

For the center part I used 4 pages and folded them accordion style, glued the edges together and then trimmed them a little big to fit the inside space.  I glued that to center and then glued the tips of the ornament to this middle piece.

Vintage Music Page Wreath

I glued a black satin ribbon from my stash on the back of the wood base and hung the wreath over a DIY chalkboard that I made for the centerpiece of my Christmas mantel.  I will share a tutorial on the chalkboard later.

Vintage Music Page Wreath

I LOVE the vintage feel of this wreath!

Vintage Music Page Wreath

Vintage Music Page Wreath

The color of the pages are perfect for the colors I am using for Christmas this year too.

Vintage Music Page Wreath

And the center ornament with the pearls, glitter, and silver accents help tie in the mercury glass I am using as well.

Vintage Music Page Wreath

Vintage Music Page Wreath

I will be back tomorrow to show you my completed Christmas mantel!  I am loving it!

Christa will be up tomorrow in our A Homemade Christmas series – can’t wait to see what she has planned.  And here are links to all the projects in the series (if you are reading in an email or reader, you will need to click over to the actual post see them all.)

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  1. Nikki says

    December 4, 2012 at 2:37 PM

    Wow, such a pretty vintage statement piece!! LOVE!!!

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  2. Christa @ BrownSugarToast says

    December 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM

    this is beautiful, Christina!!!!! love it!

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  3. Molly says

    December 4, 2012 at 3:57 PM

    Beautiful!

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  4. Stacey says

    December 4, 2012 at 10:24 PM

    That turned out very pretty! You make it look very easy too.

    Reply
  5. Deb says

    December 4, 2012 at 10:43 PM

    Christina, I love the wreath. Thank you for the tutorial. I saw a wreath similar to this a couple of months ago and got an OLD classical music book that a friend was giving to Goodwill to use. I want to use it in the new music-themed bedroom for the twins. 🙂

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  6. Tonya @ Love of Family & Home says

    December 5, 2012 at 10:50 AM

    This turned out beautifully Christina!! Can’t wait to see your mantel!!

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  7. Karen says

    December 6, 2012 at 9:46 PM

    It is stunning, I love the way you did the center with the rosette and snowflake.

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  8. Karen says

    December 11, 2012 at 7:47 PM

    Very pretty. I made one with book pages and a little different technique. I might have to try this one too. It’s beautiful!

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  9. Julie says

    December 13, 2012 at 9:04 AM

    This is so beautiful! I’m sharing this morning on my FB page…Merry Christmas 🙂

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  10. Betty Jo says

    December 13, 2012 at 8:24 PM

    I really do like them all – – BUT today’s music wreath blew me away! I am new to this and simply don’t know what is right and what is wrong!

    Reply
  11. lacey says

    January 17, 2013 at 12:18 AM

    what kind of glue did you use?

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    • Lise says

      November 21, 2017 at 8:03 AM

      I wondered the same thing and found another tutorial that used tacky glue, then secured the points with a layer of hot glue. She said after making several she switched to stapling them. Here’s the link: http://alishagratehouse.com/hymnal-wreath-tutorial/

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  12. Debbie says

    December 4, 2013 at 9:26 PM

    I love this wreath! I’ve made book page wreaths but not in this style. I’ll have to try it, thanks for reposting this, I missed it last year.
    Debbie 🙂

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  13. Mary P. Martino says

    December 2, 2019 at 6:19 PM

    What size wooden circle did.you use?

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