Botanic Bleu: Christmas Eiffel Tower Book Covers

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Have you ever been to France and

tried to buy Noël (Christmas) themed

books, cards, or postcards?

One late September, early October

I was in Paris and tried to find

Noël-themed items.

No luck.

Sales clerks looked at me quizzically,

with a puzzled look that said,

"Don't you know it is not Noël season?"

They tsked, tsked as they shook their heads

and said, "No, we do not have any Noël

__________ (insert children's books,

postcards, greeting cards)."

So, what's a French-loving, Christmas-loving,

girl to do?

Make her own!

Christmas Eiffel Tower

Book Covers

My friend, Debbie at Confessions of a Plate Addict,

showed how she creatively covered some books

with an Eiffel tower print.
See Debbie's excellent instructions
if you would like to cover books, also.

Of course, I pinned her covered books to my Pinterest board called Design Ideas,

thinking one day I'm going to cover some books like that.

Then I discovered the Noël-themed Eiffel tower print at
the Etsy shop, Graphicals.

A Noël-themed print...just what I was looking for in Paris.

The books I used are all the same height, but vary in thickness.

The Eiffel Tower print I used is asymmetrical,

but works just as well as a symmetrical print.

The white iron Eiffel Tower can either be a bookend for the books or

the books can elevate the Tower.

The paper used to cover the books is white craft paper from Michaels

that has a subtle textured white-on-white striped design.

The celery-colored twine that binds the books together for stability

is from the Container Store.

Instead of adding a wax seal directly to the book cover,
I created a wax seal on a piece of kitchen waxed paper and
carefully lifted it from the waxed paper after the seal was cool.

The fleur-de-lis wax seal is glued to the twine so that the seal will
not break when the twine is moved.