The Sparkling spruce
One of my favorites!
What you will need:
- 2x8 piece of wood, or whatever size fits your fancy (all depends on how large you want your tree)
- Sage colored Burlap, or clothe of your choice (i.e. white felt), cut into 3”-4” strips *we bought the left over scrap pieces they have at the cutting table so they were marked down!
- Glitter. I used silver. Spray glitter will also work.
- Spray adhesive. If you use spray glitter, you won’t need this!
- Hot glue gun with sticks.
The Steps:
- Cut a triangle out of the 2x8. The dimensions of my tree were
16”x16”x7.5” (the true width of a 2x8). I used my husbands circular saw, but a hand saw should work as well!
- Cut ~1-inch flaps in the strips of fabric. Don’t cut too deeply, however; halfway through should do the trick.
- Take your hot glue gun and squeeze a strip of glue along the bottom of the triangle. Place your strip of fabric on the glue so that the flaps hang off the wood. Then turn the wood piece and do the same on the small side, then the back, and then the other small side, so that in the end you have completed a 360, and fabric completely lines the bottom of the tree.
- Continue with these same steps over and over as you move up the tree. Make sure to overlap fabric so that no wood shows when the flaps come up.
- Optional: Once the tree is covered with fabric spray it with the spray adhesive and dust with glitter. (This would also be a good time to curl the edges of the fabric up if you want them to stand up more).
Sydney
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