diy: instant christmas decors
Written by designfolder on December 19, 2011 – 12:23 pm -
Suddenly it’s Christmas at home!
As usual, I have no plans of decorating the house for Christmas. After spending the first couple of weeks of December making Christmas decorations for clients, I have no energy left to decorate our home. But because of the red flowers that I brought from my brother’s wedding over the weekend, the house got an instant Christmas makeover!
Inspired by the decorations I made for a Petron station, I made three additional tabletop Christmas trees from old magazines, spray painted them in red and gold, and finished them off with a sprinkle of gold glitters. You can find a video tutorial from Martha Stewart here. The project is quite time consuming, but you can easily make them while watching tv.
Above is a variation of the magazine Christmas tree. By alternately gluing (or stapling) three points of the folds together, you can create an accordion pattern for your tree to make it look more fancy.
To give my trees a bit of height, I simply placed them on top of my ceramic candle holders which functioned as a base.
Total cost: P0.00
I just hope the flowers will last until the 25th. 
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Tags: christmas, decor, diy, flowers
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By kathy farnam on Dec 29, 2011 | Reply
beautiful! I love your site. Could you possibly give more instruction on making the accordian tree? I have made several of the others and can’t quite figure out how to do it….is the gluing done as you are folding each page or is it done when the entire tree is finised?
Happy New Year to you!
Kathy