Anyhow, Casey took me to Craft Warehouse! It's basically like Michael's BUT better! There's fabric and decorating ideas and tons of scrapbooking and jewelry making supplies - unbelievable. What I love best is they show so many examples of things to do! For example, with the display of glass blocks they'll have 2-3 glass blocks that they've used stencils and twinkle lights to show you ideas of how to use them! It's fantastic! The only bad thing is trying to find time and money to do all of the ideas yourself! I did treat myself to some things - one idea was to take cardboard cones and make Christmas trees using looped scrapbook paper - here's how the project turned out:
I painted the three 'trees' brown but the example at the store was painted green. I picked brown because of the color scheme of the scrapbooking paper that I chose. (My Mind's Eye - "Believe")
Some of the lovely scrapbooking paper... reds, muted greens, aqua, brown
Next, I cut the paper into strips about 1 inches wide, then cut them lengthwise about 4 inches long
then I folded those in half and stapled them - I used this size of 'bough' for 90% of the tree
then using my trusty glue gun, I glued each bough in rows - changing up colors and papers (each scrapbook page was double-sided with a different print)
adding more rows...
...and more
for the top of the tree I curled a strip of the cut paper to make a point - this part was tricky...
hard to see but the top few rows I cut each bough in half lengthwise to make them skinner - easier to glue around the top part of the tree as it got more narrow. Then at the top I wrapped a strip or two more around to cover the top boughs. (rather than stapling the more narrow boughs, I glued the loops together then glued them onto the tree)
The finished project!!! I ended up with two on my mantle and one on a shelf in our dining room - they look fantastic! I'm really happy with the colors - so festive in a different color scheme than traditional bright red and kelly green.
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