DIY Christmas fringe trees
Thursday, December 13, 2012 at 10:44AM 
Adorable right? You may have noticed these little trees popping up in my Christmasy apartment tour earlier this week. I was originally inspired by these guys over at West Elm by Confetti System (remember how I'm kind of obsessed with them?), but they are actually kind of small (the tallest one is only 12") and I knew I could make these guys for way less than 30 bucks a pop. So here's the breakdown...
Supplies:
heavy cardstock or thin cardboard
scissors
pen/marker
metallic wrapping paper
tape or hot glue gun
Step 1: Draw a triangle shape onto your cardstock. I freehanded mine with a straight edge- draw half of the triangle, cut that out and then flip it over so it will be symmetrical.
Step 2: Cut out the first triangle and then trace and repeat this two times so you end up with three triangles that are the same size.
Step 3: Tape or hot glue your triangle pieces together to make a three sided pyramid.
Step 4: Once the pyramid is nice and secure, cover all sides with metallic wrapping paper. This will ensure that no cardstock is seen underneath the fringe and everything is nice and shiny from every angle.
Step 5: Now it’s time to add the fringe. Cut the metallic wrapping paper in 2” strips. Note: It helps if the wrapping paper has a grid on the reverse side. Then cut the 2” strips into fringe. The fringe can be as close or as far apart as you would like. Note: Creating a couple different trees with different sized fringe makes for a neat effect.
Step 6 (optional): Bend each strip in half. This will create some texture in the fringe so it doesn’t lay against the pyramid too perfectly.
Step 7: Starting at the bottom apply the fringe strips with tape or hot glue to the pyramid.
Step 8- Work your way up the tree, each strip shorter than the last. Layer the strips so they overlay to show only the fringe and not the solid wrapping paper portion at the top.
Step 9- After strips are applied to every side, go back and trim the corners of the fringe to clean things up a bit. You can also use your fingers to fluff up the fringe to give it even more texture.
Step 10: Woohoo- you're done! Set it on an entry table, mantle, or in a centerpiece to Christmas things up!
A few fun facts:
- I spent about $10 total on this project which got me three trees...and quite a bit of pretty metallic leftover paper to use on gifts.
-Little Phoenix was wrapped up against my chest fast asleep in his Moby wrap during this photo shoot.
-Can't think of a third fun fact, but only two bullets felt awkward.
{Photo Credits: Emily Kiel}
Reader Comments (2)
Nice. I really like the pyramid shape that the tree has. I also just posted a DIY Christmas tree post and didn't even think about different shapes!
Thanks Sydney, I thought about doing a cone shape, but that seemed trickier than just attaching the fringe to flat sides. Yours turned out great though, love how you used a Free People catalog!