I loved this idea and now that I've tried it, I've thought of several ways to adapt this idea for gifts. For my sister-in-law, as a Christmas gift, rather than making the monogram on a cutout letter, I bought a simple frame with a 1/4 inch plywood insert.I painted the insert red, and from there I cut out the necessary book page strips, rolled (using glue) 50 strips.
It's important that you have various lengths if you want to create the letter with tapering. I used paper glue again, it seems to work well with both the rolls of paper and the wood.
As a final accent, I made two small felt flowers and attached those using a glue gun.
As an aside, I think this idea would be lovely if adapted for the first initial of a new baby's name, with suitable colours used. For the book pages, you could use a children's book (at the very least, to be sure that no inappropriate words are visible).
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