Hitting the Books ............

 HITTING THE BOOKS is our theme this month at Anything But A Card which is a trifle difficult for me as I normally do in most of my projects!  So for something different I thought I would make a hanging ball ornament from folded die cut papers.

I have done this before with the Dress Form Die but thought it would be fun to try another shape - although finding a concentric die is not easy - so I resorted to a circle! I cut my circle die twice and cut one in half, then glued them together to make a segmented ball shape (sorry no photo!).

I die cut circles from an old book and folded them in half.  I used Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges of the papers and the segments of the ball shape.

Then I started glueing the papers together, four or five at a time and then glueing them in to the circle segment.  I find it easier to do it this way rather than trying to stick them all individually into the segment.

Not a great photo but here is the finished ball.  It was a difficult shape to work on but there is always something useful to hand! The kitchen towel roll made a great stand.



Then it was down to decorating - some handmade flowers and metal squirls and altered leaves from Hobbycraft which I sprayed with Broken China spray to soften the bright green.

I hope you will join us this month in our challenge - just think about using papers or books in any way you like, just not in a card!  Click the link HERE to go to the challenge post and see the wonderful DT makes and the super entries so far.

We have made some changes at Anything But a Card which we hope you will like and find a little easier for joining in.  



Challenges are now monthly rather than two-weekly as I am sure all of us (including the Design Team!) found the challenges coming around a little too quick!  


Watch out too for our monthly mini challenge spotlighting one of the Design Team.  This month Julie showcased some of her wonderful journals.

Thanks for looking x