Tissue Christmas Trees

I know this isn't the first time you've seen these, nor will it be the last,

but I still wanted to share :)

I first saw this post at Spunky Junky & I instantly fell in love with tissue trees!

I copied her idea of making my own tree forms with cups and cardstock because I already had all that on hand.  Just make a cone out of cardstock, place it on top of the cup & tape it to the rim of the cup.

I wanted mine to be 3 different sizes, so I just added a second cone on top of the first, to make it taller.

To make the rosette tissue tree I cut strips of tissue paper approx. 1.5" thick.

I bought a pack of shiny gold tissue paper at Walmart for $1.00.

I twisted all those strips of tissue at one time, so the process would go faster (In all reality, this project is NOT FAST & I wouldn't start unless you want to spend a lot of time on it.)

Then I twisted them into rosettes and used hot glue to keep the shape.

I hot glued them to the tree shape. I kind of had to squish them together so you couldn't see the red cardstock. It might be easier to use the same color cardstock as tissue :)

I made different sizes of rosettes to change it up a bit and to fit in all the cracks where red was peeking through.

The red tissue tree didn't take as long to make, but it was still pretty time consuming.

I cut 1.5" x 1.5" squares & that was pretty easy with my rotary cutter.

For instructions on this tree, go here to Spunky Junky Blog.

These two were lonely on the counter for days because I was kinda burnt out on making them.

Just yesterday I got the idea of how I wanted to make my third tree. I knew it was going to be green to go with my other decor and I knew I wanted it to be different from the other two trees.

 I cut 1.5" strips and twisted them just like I did for my rosettes.

Then I simply hot glued them onto the tree shape in rows.

This is also similar to trees that are made of yarn and such. I didn't go around the tree like a continuous strip, so I kind of have this cool design on the back from where the "seam" is (at least it looks like a seam).

I just love the different textures. I think I'm going to add something more to my green tree, like glitter and maybe some other embellishment, but it's LATE and I better go to bed :)

I really do love the end result, but I will warn you again that these are not quick crafts. My husband would like to say that I spend FOR.EV.ER on these, but as you can see that's not the case because they are actually done ;) I told him they might be permanent living room decorations because of how long they took me to make.

Thanks Spunky Junky for the idea and the rest of the Internet for the inspiration!!

Feel free to browse our blog for more Christmas ideas and if you love these trees you should check out my fabric ones or these new trees. ;)

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