Vintage Book Candle Holder

I have so many old books so I thought....Hum, I wonder if I could make them into candles holders?  This might look good for holiday decorating?

I started by tracing around my candles

Then I clamped the book together leaving the back jacket out of the mix so I could cut through the pages, then glue the back cover to hold the candles in place

I used my jigsaw for the big hole and these red thingys on my drill to cut the smaller holes

Don't worry if they are not exactly perfect holes because you are going to cover them with sheet music or scrap paper

Now I mod podged around all of the pages and the back cover and used the old brick trick and let it dry

If you have a great looking book you could leave the book jacket on, but since mine was an old math book I pulled it off.   Then brought out my stamps and walnut ink and mod podged on a new top page, all of the details are on my post altering books

I think I'll do another one with a Christmas Theme

I put lace around the candles and tied a cord around the book

I know you will come up with great ways to alter this simple project and make it your own....I'm just the idea thrower!

Happy Creating!

Carol


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Vintage Books, How to Alter and Price

I am sure you have all seen altered books 

 When I showed you on a past post some vintage books that were selling in my booth I had requests to show you how I altered mine. 

So, here ya go!

Pick up some books at the thrift store, they don't have to be really old just look a little worn, certainly not a new book

I rip off the front and side binding, some people rip off the whole hard cover.

At this point you could do like Ballard Design, tie them up with twine and call it a day.


Or you could pull out an interesting page from the book and some old sheet music

Get a graphics from Graphics Fairy and and run the book page or sheet music through your printer

At this point I pull out my rubber stamps and walnut ink 

and kind of mess them up!

I mod podged this altered page onto the front page of the book, then fancy it up and I am finished

I price these between $6 - $10 depending on how fancy they are and which embellishments I use.  


I am still on vacation and having a wonderful time!  Yesterday I spent the entire day going to antique and thrift stores with Deb from Garage Sale Gal...Toooo Fun!  I fly home to Orlando tomorrow night and as soon as I can get my brains together I will show you pictures of our great adventure.  


Happy Crafting!


Carol