Cord Christmas Trees
Craft Christmas cone trees using cord and pearl embellishments on parchment baking paper where you can add battery operated Christmas lights inside the cones or just place them anywhere on you Christmas decoration.
Cover the cones with parchment paper, secure with pins and continue adding pins around it in various places. Do not fully push to the surface of the cone the head of the pin.
Begin from the bottom and go around pins, stretching a bit the sequings gimp Christmas wire, connecting them.
Continue the same with the cream jute twine.
Start covering with textile glue to the twine and the wire.
When it dries, remove the pins and add the star string.
Continue adding pearls and stars covering the joints – where pins where and in other place you prefer.
Place battery operated lights inside for a night decoration.
Option: put some fabric glue in a small bowl and place the cord/strings inside before stretching them on the parchment paper. When the glue dries you can slowly remove the parchment paper and have plaited Christmas cones.
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Nice job. I had my husband make cones out of chicken wire and then decorated them and they look similar to this.
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Do you have a pic of your chicken wire tree. I would love to try it
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I love this! Great project if you need to make several for gifts.
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Lovely! Would make great gifts.
What kind of battery operated lights did you use for night display?
Maybe i missed something? You started out covering a cone with paper, pushing pins into the cone to attach the wire and cord.
In the finish pic you said you put lights inside the cone. Did you remove the inside foam cone , just leaving the outer paper cone?