The Paper Christmas Tree

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I know, I know…you probably came here today with your grocery list in hand looking for recipes. I’m taking a brief hiatus from WTCW (one week). I’ve been prepping some guest posts and getting ready to co-host Crafty Scrappy Happy Me Thursday with my blogger friend, Jaime.
So, today, instead, I am bringing back a post from the past that I did for Emily over at Naptime is My Time. I did a guest post for her and shared how to make a paper Christmas tree decoration with scrapbook paper and Styrofoam.

What will you need?

Scrapbook or other similar paper. Double sided works best!
A styrofoam or paper mache tree.
Paper cutter or scissors
Straight pins

Ok, got all those things? I figure most of you lovely ladies {or handsome guys} have a lot of those items in your everyday craft supplies! The first step is to cut your paper into strips. Using my {or my borrowed} paper cutter, I made mine all 3/4″ of an inch wide.

Now, take your styrofoam {or paper mache if that is what you chose} tree and get ready to pin the pieces on. I simply folded mine, without creasing and then used the straight pins to attach them to the tree form.

Once you get a layer done, just do the next layer and move along up the tree form. I used different paper for each of my layers.

Once I had all of the layers on the tree, I added a cupcake topper as my tree “star”.

I also wrapped the very top of the final layer with a piece of ribbon to cover up the little pins that showed. It looks like one little pin just won’t go into hiding though…oops!