I am one of the least likely people you would ever find to rip up a book however.......this one was well and truly falling apart, it was a cheap paperback AND I already had another copy so....I made an exception and now have a couple of hundred nice vintage printed pages to play with. These little rolled flowers are everywhere at the moment. You can buy dies to cut them but I prefer the roughly torn version, as shown in the picture. For those that haven't tried these before: Start by tearing a roughly circular shape (don't be too upset if its not exact, that's the whole idea). Beginning at the outside tear in a spiral shape towards the middle, being deliberately "wavy" and leaving a small area in the middle as a base. Now start rolling from the outside until you get to the base, allow the rolled shape to "relax" a little, then glue it to the base. If you're using light paper like this then double sided tape will do, otherwise use something like Pritt glue or a hot glue gun. If the flower still looks a little tight, you can gently bend out the petals.
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