My friend Lova made these lovely paper lanterns both from an old damaged book as well as beautiful new art papers.

From Lova: “When I was at Brimfield Market with Paul I found a storybook called The Yellow Princess. It was in bad shape. I bought it and combined the pages with other papers I had lying around and made these cute paper lanterns. They are fun to make and you can easily vary the shapes. Smooth papers will bend smoothly and papers with more fibers in them will give a rougher look.”

Search out old books at flea markets and garage sales -- if the cover is damaged but the pages are intact, you can use them for craft projects!