Easy Book Flowers- Not Just for Corsages

After making more than a few of these Easy Book Flowers, they can become sort of an obsession! They are SO easy, and SO good looking, and SO eye catching, that you start exploring using them for more than just corsages.

Book flower glued to headband

Decorative accents jump to mind, and they are perfect for embellishing gift packages or making wreaths, but they can also add a hip look to hair clips, headbands and hats.

NYT Best Seller Makes for a Fashionable Chapeau. Note that the circles to make this flower were cut with scallops to make lobed petals.

Just a small bit of tulle or other millinery trims can turn the simple Easy Book Flower into High Fashion.

Almost every time I travel, I wear something with a book flower on it, and it is a rare trip that someone doesn’t notice the flower and want to talk about it…

They Are Not Immortal

ONE LAST WORD ON THESE EASY BOOK FLOWERS: Not to be a Debby Downer about this, but have no misconceptions about these book flowers. Like the trees they were fashioned from, the pages that make up these flowers are ephemeral, and are not designed to last forever. Yes, you probably COULD soak them in some sort of concoction that might extend their “lives”, but why bother? You can easily make another one…. one friend who was wearing one got caught in a gully washing thunderstorm, and her corsage fell off and was never seen again…. she grieved over losing it, but she got another one, which has been just as much fun as the first one!