Cork Christmas Card Trees

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 If y'all stopped past times Love Create Celebrate yesterday, y'all saw that I made some adorable ornament force pins. You may guide maintain wondered to yourself, why would somebody involve those? Well, I’m answering that inquiry today!

To hang Christmas cards!!

A crafter ever happily accepts arts and crafts supplies equally gifts, in addition to ever since my friend gave me sheets of cork newspaper for my birthday, my caput has been swimming amongst ideas for how to move them – including these cork Christmas bill of fare trees :) 

Materials:

Styrofoam Trees

Cork Paper

Glue Gun in addition to Glue Sticks

Scissors

To begin, cutting your cork into 1.5″ width strips.

Once y'all guide maintain all of your strips cutting out, stimulate down gluing the bottom strip. The 12″ strip inwards length fits perfectly to a greater extent than or less the bottom of the tall styrofoam trees. Find the middle of the strip in addition to mucilage it inwards place, line-up amongst the bottom of the tree.

Then roll the cork slice to a greater extent than or less the tree then that it sits flat, in addition to mucilage it inwards place. The cork strip volition hold upwardly angled downwards toward the bottom of the tree. After the strip is glued inwards place, y'all tin cutting off the edges that hang below the bottom of the tree.

Continue this procedure all the agency upwardly the tree, overlapping the strips of cork equally y'all instruct up. As y'all deed upwardly the tree, y'all volition guide maintain to cutting the cork pieces shorter, then that the ends even then sit down at the dorsum of the tree.

Your ends volition all business upwardly at the dorsum similar this tree :)

They are definitely non equally pretty from the back… lol.

That’s it! Now y'all guide maintain a cork tree to fill upwardly up amongst beautiful Christmas cards!

I repeated this procedure amongst several trees then that I could brand a trivial bill of fare forest. I used four dissimilar sizes of trees.

Now y'all tin leave of absence your force pins in addition to attach your Christmas cards!

 Here’s how I gear upwardly my cork Christmas bill of fare trees amongst my cherry in addition to gilded decor :)

Can’t hold off to fill upwardly up my trees amongst novel Christmas cards this year!

If y'all missed the tutorial, y'all tin meet how I made the adorable ornament force pins for at that topographic point trees here!

Or if y'all are looking for some other Christmas tree idea, cheque out these String Christmas Trees :)

 

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