Christmas Jingle Paper Tree

Christmas Jingle Paper Tree

This paper tree will be a beautiful decoration in your home during this holiday season.  It also makes a wonderful gift!

Supplies:

• Berry Christmas stamp set (Holiday Mini catalog)
  
• Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit
• Very Vanilla card stock
• Bone Folder 
• Classic Stampin' Pad: Old Olive 
• Paper Snips
• SNAIL adhesive
  
• A box of pins (check your sewing supplies!)
  
• 4" diameter x 9" height Styrofoam Cone (from your local craft store)

Directions for Tree:

• Cut an entire sheet of 12"x12" double sided paper from the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin' Kit into 4"x1" strips.
  
• Curl up the ends of each strip using your bone folder.  (Note: When I curled my papers, I alternated which pattern faced up on each row.  This is optional.)
  
• Pin the curled strips starting at the bottom of the tree. Do the entire bottom row.  You are working your way from the bottom to the top.
  
• Keep adding rows until you are halfway up the cone.  You may need to cut a few extra strips of 4"x1" paper to get your desired fullness.  I used 41 of the 4"x1" strips.
  
• When you are halfway up the cone, switch to 3"x3/4" strips of paper and continue pinning strips until you reach the top of the tree.  I used 18 of the 3"x3/4" strips.
  

 Directions for Tree Topper:

• Stamp 4 snowflake images from the "Berry Christmas" stamp set using Old Olive ink on Very Vanilla card stock.
• Using your bone folder, draw score lines down the center of each snowflake.
• Use paper snips to cut out all four snowflakes.
• Fold snowflakes in half and adhere the four snowflakes together using SNAIL. 
  
• Gently stick the bottom tip of the combined snowflake into to the top of the Styrofoam tree.  You may want to use a bit of glue to make it more secure, but I didn't do that for my tree. It also occurred to me after I was done with this project that I could have adhered the snowflakes onto a pin, instead of sticking the card stock directly into the tree top. Oh well, there's always next time!
  

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!  This project was inspired by another paper tree that I saw at my local craft store this week.  

Click here to order the supplies used to create this decorative paper tree!