Fancy This: Tree Topper

My daughter could not wait to put the tree up after Thanksgiving this year. I was pretty anxious, too. So, the morning after Thanksgiving, off we went to select our tree. We spent the rest of the day decorating the house, listening to Christmas music, and putting the ornaments on the tree. Once the ornaments covered our tree (or at least covered the bottom half - you can tell little hands helped), we put on the star. It's always the last thing we put on. My husband always lifts my daughter up so she can reach to put it on top. The finishing touch.

Check out this beautiful tree topper Nikki Bellish created. She never could find one she really liked, so she made her own! And you can too!

 

Tree Topper

Products used:
Happy Holidays: Candy Cane
Happy Holidays: Tree Lot
All Fall: Penmanship
ink pad (brown)
die cutting machine
thick, but bendable metal rod
hemp

Instructions:
1. Glue two 4 inch stars together to make it thicker, and then shape them by bending edges to make them more dimensional.
2. Ink the stars edges and bended parts.
3. Use a craft knife to cut out a tree from the Happy Holidays: Tree Lot paper.
4. Use a die cutting machine to cut out letters from Happy Holidays: Candy Cane paper.
5. Cut two, 3 inch strips of Happy Holidays: Candy Cane paper, then fold paper back and forth.
6. Connect the two folded strips together creating a circle.
7. Glue the star to the two folded strips.
8. Cut a very thin strip of paper and folded over once.
9. Wrap the thin strip around a pen to curl.
10. Place where you want it.
11. Tie a bow with hemp.
12. Bend metal rod into any shape that forms a cone... (I made mine in a square shape)
13. Attach metal rod that you bent to make the base.

Comments

[Beth W]

This is gorgeous-more copying and pasting!