10MSPC meets Phone Book

Only one thing better than using phone book pages as patterned paper. And that would be the scraps they produce. I'll be making many, many more of these little cuties to give at all the graduation parties that are coming up this week. I can probably make like 20 cards in less than 30 minutes... sweet.

I can probably make something like 20 of these in less than 30 minutes... sweet. I could also make a load of phone book flowers in 20 minutes. And since so many of you have asked exactly how to make those flowers, here's a quickie little tutorial.

{Honestly, they are so super quick and easy that I could probably just post the pics and you'd get the idea. }

First up, punch out a circle of cardstock. Smaller circle = smaller circle and so forth.

Cover the circle with dry adhesive. {I used a Glue Glider Pro with High Tac Adhesive by Glue Arts.}

Then just stick a strip of phone book paper down on the edge... like so...

Then just start folding and sticking, folding and sticking {pretty easy if you ask me}. Keep adding strips when you get to the end of one.

If you get to a wonky spot like this one where the strips meet but don't really match up...

Just give one of them a little haircut and keep going.

If you finish a row and still have some of the strip left, don't cut it; just keep going with that one as you move down into a new row.

I tend to keep adding adhesive around each layer... just add it right on top of the last layer.

The center ends up looking something like this...

Fun times. And don't forget... Paper Crafts is having a super fun Phone Book Challenge!

Upload your project using some phone book paper to this Flickr gallery for a shot to win!

Fun times, fun times.

Later, friends!