Blogger's Challenge

Wow! It has been 5 days since my last post. Sorry about that but I am sure you all know how it is when life gets busy. That is my longest break yet. Anyway, this weeks challenge comes at a perfect time. We have been challenged to use designer paper and during November Stampin Up! is offering a great special on their designer paper so get your orders ready -- and call me, lol! I created a pretty large Christmas decoration for my craft room. I hope you like it. I had a really hard time with the picture, I should have set it up better and cleaned up around it but was in a rush so this is what I got.






This is a close up of the top of the tree.




All of the designer paper used is from the Winter Brights Simply Scrappin kit. I also used Real Red, Bashful Blue and Wild Wasabi card stock to alternate. The garland and ornaments have been in my craft room for years -- nice to finally use them. As was the paper tree I started with. All of the papers are just folded in a loose loop and stapled together before attaching to the form. This project is usually done with a Styrofoam cone which would have been much easier because you could just use pins to adhere the paper loops. This took about 7 different adhesives, lol! There were a lot of uneven areas on the tree as it was really textured to start with.


Here is a link for where I got the idea. I did not use these cones though. My tree is two and a half feet hight!