Scrap Tiffany Holiday Blog Hop!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here! You arrived just in time for the Scrap Tiffany Holiday Blog Hop! Thanks for stopping by! If you just landed on my blog, you will definitely want to start from the beginning at the Scrap Tiffany blog so that you don't miss one stop on this amazing journey of Holiday inspiration!

I decided to make some Christmas trees out of magazines and an old paperback book. You could just leave them plain and they look great that way too, but you know me, I always have to add a little bling! I decided to add decorations to mine. (Click on photo to view larger.)

The large tree was created with a magazine and the two smaller trees were from a paperback book already in the donation box! I made the two smaller trees from one book and still have pages left over.

I think the white one is actually my favorite!
I actually sprayed my trees with white spray paint and just a touch of matte silver metallic spray paint. I then sprayed with adhesive and glittered and glittered also adding some glitter stars. Again, you don't have to spray paint, you could just leave plain and they look really cool that way too.

I added a white bird, some tulle, some white feathers and more. I love how silver bead garland looks on the tree.

For the red tree, I just added some more of the berries from the Christmas pics I picked up at Michael's, added a ribbon and some wire with bling!

The black tree was created by just using different sizes of black brads. I didn't have any black balls or berries so I went with what I had. white bird, some tulle, some white feathers and more. I added black tulle at the top, again with wire and some beads.

Ok, so you wanna know how to make them???

It's actually very easy! I'll show you how...

Step 1:

Start with your magazine. Make sure to bend the spine open and break the spine. Something you would normally NEVER do, I know, but it's important for this project!

Step 2:

Begin by folding the page down meeting at the spine to form a triangle.

Step 3:

Fold down again meeting spine to create a necktie shape.

Step 4:

Crease and fold bottom flap hanging over edge of magazine.

Step 5:

Tuck under triangle.

Step 6:

Continue folding through entire magazine.

Step 7:

As you continue, you will start to see the tree taking shape. Continue until the magazine is completely folded and the tree is completed. If you like you can glue the back page to the front page to keep it's shape although it usually isn't necessary.

Step 8:

Once folding is complete and tree is shaped, you can spray paint and glitter if you like. Then just decorate how you choose. I used Christmas picks found on sale at Michael's. You can embellish as much or as little as you like.

I have to say, this definitely got me in the Christmas mood very early. I have been creating with Christmas music and now I'm ready to decorate....might have to wait a bit on that!

Well, you better get hopping on to the next stop, but before you do, make sure you leave me a comment to be entered in the drawing for my giveaway! I have a variety of items I'll be packaging up for the winner! Take a peek at what you can win....

A package of Glimmer Chips, a bottle of Glimmer Mist, alphas, Sassafras Chipboard, SEI rubons, Jenni Bowlin banner stickers, and more....

Also a stack of papers including several from Studio Calico, Basic Grey, Melody Ross and more.....

A few papers from Glitz Designs with matching rub-ons and journaling cards...

And a few papers from My Little Shoebox with matching die-cuts and overlays....Just leave me a comment and I'll post the winner on Wednesday morning!

Now you better get going so you don't miss any of the great ideas from the other Scrap Tiffany designers....

Next on the hop is the amazing Abby....

Thanks for participating in the Scrap Tiffany Holiday Hop! Don't forget to leave a comment...

***Wednesday morning update: Feel free to still leave a comment however winner has already been chosen. Thank you.