Hi
Not too late to add some decorations to the table or mantle & Stephanie shows us her version:
Silver
Tree
'I
have seen a few of these paper trees around the internet and I thought I’d try
making one of these myself. I was going to make this with one of those foam
cones you can buy. But, go figure, when I want one I couldn’t find a single
one. So I decided to make my own cone out of cardstock.
It’s
not beautiful but it worked for what I wanted it for, lol.
I
used the “Forget Me Not Toile” paper from Meg’s Garden, it has nice shiny
silver look to it. I cut 1 ½” strips of the paper and then cut that strip into
½” strips. Take your ½” strips of paper and curl one end of the paper around a
wooden skewer (or thin paint brush) so when you remove it the one end of the
paper curls up as shown in the picture. Starting at the bottom of the cone
start gluing the paper strips down. When you get to the second row stagger the
paper strips from the row below. Do this for each row and continue all the way
to the top of the cone.
You
can see in this one picture that my cone did not go right into a point at the
top. So I cut a 1 inch circle and made a tiny cone to fit over the top of the
tree. Then I took a tiny red star that I had in my stash and glued that onto
the cap of the tree. I did spray some shimmering mist onto my tree but you
can’t really tell in this photo.
Materials used from Meg’s Garden:
Paper -
P6305 Forget Me Not Toile
Other items used:
Paper
or Styrofoam Cone (approximately 9 ½”)
Aleene’s
fast grab tacky glue (or glue of your choice)
Small
star for the top of the tree'
Text
for “Banner”
'I’ve being wanting to make my
granddaughter a name banner for at least 6 months to go in her new bedroom. I
just hadn’t found the right papers for it until I received my DT members’
package from Meg’s Garden. These beautiful floral papers from Meg’s Garden are
perfect for making “pretties” for a young girl’s bedroom!
I made the banner pieces from canvas
but you could use papers for the banner pieces. I happened to find these 12 x
12 canvas sheets from one of the dollar stores which worked out great as you
could get 2 banner triangles from each sheet. The banner is 6 inches at the top
and is 9 inches long. I took one of my flourish stamps and pink ink pad and
stamped the banner pieces. I then took 2 paper doilies and glued them down so
that one is just slightly higher than the other and each hang over the edge
about 1”.
I made the larger fan flower from the
“Ma Fleur Rose” papers. I cut the paper 1 ¾” wide and 10” long and then punched
one side with one of my Martha Stewart punches. The smaller fan flower is made
using the “A French Bouquet” papers. For this one I cut the paper 1” wide by
10” long. When making my folds on the fans I made them each ¼” wide and I added
a pearl brad, which I had cut the prongs off of, to the center of the flowers.
I cut my letters out on my Cricut
machine at 4” and glued them down on top of my fan flowers. I then took some of my handmade roses as well as the 3
layer white gardenias, Pink/Cream Open Paper Roses and the French white open paper
roses and glued them down as shown. The dark pink roses you see are actually
the French white open paper roses that I painted with some of my pink ink as
well as painting the center of the White Gardenia with pink ink. I then punched my holes, added the eyelets
and tied them together with the pink ribbon.
Materials
used from Meg’s Garden:
Paper -
P6296 Ma Fleur Rose
- 3400 A French Bouquet
gar
wh 3 layer White Gardenias
Pink/Cream
Open Paper Roses
French
White Open Paper Rose
da810
Green Leaves
Other items used:
Double
sided tape, Ribbon, Handmade
paper roses
Edge
punch, Eyelets, Paper
doilies 4 ½”
Pearl
brads for flower centers, Canvas, Flourish
stamp
These 2 projects are so different it is hard to believe they came from the same lady - well done Stephanie. Lots of inspiration here
Bye for now
Meg
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