Layered Paper Christmas Tree
This was my project for Janice's Gala Gift Exchange last Saturday. Now I have to makeone for myself! The tree is about 10 inches tall. I bought the wooden circle base at Hobby Lobby. The "trunk" of the tree is a wooden skewer. Hubby drilled a hole in the center of the base for the skewer. There are about 200 layers of First Edition DSP on the skewer — about 15 layers of each square size put onto the skewer, alternating placement of the points for each square. Square sizes begin at 4 inches at the bottom and then each layer is 1/4" smaller until you get to 3/4" at the very top. The 3 top layers are only about 10-12 of each size. Dimensionals are attached to each layer to keep them from laying too flat. I think I used about 2 packs of Dimensionals and a little more than a package of DSP. Not difficult — just takes a while. The hardest part for me was deciding what sizes to cut the DSP and how many layers of each! Let me know if you have any questions….. I'm not great at written directions — that's probably why I'm so far behind with my blog. I'm wondering how it would look with some Christmas DSP!!! I may have to try that!
Awesome.I am amazed at the creativity of some of our SU demo’s. This is a beautiful project. Great job. Thanks so much for sharing!
What a fabulous project…the tree is amazing. What dedication, cutting all those pieces and adding so many dimensionals, but so worth the effort.