Another Spring Mantel

This is a bit unconventional and it may kind of look like a store display, but I'm really enjoying the spring colors on our mantle.  I bought a box of reader's digest books at a recent auction. I should probably say, another box of reader's digest books. :)

The covers are soooooo awesome!!  I decided I just wanted to display them for awhile.

I picked up two of these frames at the same auction.  They had some very common portraits in them.  I  popped out the old print and covered the cardboard backing pieces with burlap.  Then I arranged some book flowers I made about a year ago and added some wire accents.  A tutorial to make the book flowers can be found here. They are really fun and easy to make!

The arrangement was missing something and then I found this tutorial to make the origami butterflies.  I was so excited because I knew the butterflies were just the touch the mantle needed.  But, instead of inking the edges of the pages as Karen did, I used my daughters' water color paints to paint the butterflies shades of pastels to coordinate with the books.

It was up in the 80s today here in Nebraska!  It will be interesting to see how the rest of our spring transpires.  I hope there actually is one as I'm not ready for summer!!

I'm linking up with Donna at Funky Junk Interiors.