Fringe Tree

     My first Christmas-y post, and it's two days before Christmas!  Well sorry, but I guess you'll just have to wait until next year if you want to use this one.

Long strips of green paper, roughly 3/4 of an inch wide.

I don't have exact measurements for how long each piece should be, so basically decide how long you want the bottom one, then make each a little shorter than the last until you get one short enough to be the topper.

You may be wondering what that wacky looking thing is.  Those are my fringe scissors, thus the title, "Fringe Tree."  Use them as far down the piece as possible without cutting off any part.  The most cuts you'll be able to get in one one piece is two, but trust me, it still save time.  For the parts you can't get with the fancy scissors, you'll have to use regular scissors.

Please, don't cut up your hymnal!  I used the same technique here as I used in Polk-dot Happy Birthday with the flower.   This piece of paper is cut to 5 by 3 3/4 inches.  I then rounded only the top left and bottom right corners, then outlined it with red.

With eyelet setting tool, punch two holes at an angle in the top left corner of paper.

Wire rimmed red shimmery ribbon.

Tie the ribbon in a nice knot, and trim the edges.  You need not double tie it because the wire will keep it tight, plus there will be glue underneath.

It looks like this picture was randomly stuck here, but this is actually the order in which I did it.  The picture is to show how much glue to put on, and where.  It's a good idea to run it down the edges also.  Start at the bottom, with the biggest piece, obviously, sticking each one about 1/2 inch above the other.

Rhinestones colored with red sharpie.  Of course you can always just get already red rhinestones.  Place them as shown in the picture below.

I think I did the tree a bit too low down.

These are super easy.  I made three more after this one.

Get Yer Nose (or Shall We Say Fingers?) in a Book!

This card uses book paper!  I've seen so many projects various places that use book, paper, and I love how it looks!  It looks so vintage!

Lay the paper over a sort of sharp thing, and make it look the picture below.  A really dull pencil might work.  It needs to not be very sharp, so it doesn't tear the paper.

This is what it looks like after cutting, and all spread out.

Outline the flower with a thick hot pink sharpie, then lightly go over the bumps with the same.

I was intending to use glue dots for these flowers, but it urns out they don't stick very well to this sort of paper, so I went the old-fashioned way and used a needle and thread!  Which probably looks better than if I hadn't.

A scribbly border.

I guess it's suppose to look something like music notes?

I love this font.  It's another one from Cardmaker's Hand-lettering Workbook.

 

Here's a secret: I actually didn't use paper from a book.  What I did was copy the pages of a book on our copy machine, but used that type of paper so it looked like the pages of a book.  The only reason I did that instead of use a real book was that I didn't want to take the book apart.