December 11, 2007

My Paper Pine Cone

Inspired by all the wonderful paper trees and ornaments I have been seeing in "scrapland" and "stampville"... I thought I'd create a paper pine cone.

I wish I could tell you who makes this paper... I bought it at Target. It has a wonderful, flocked scroll/vine pattern. A 6" tall Styrofoam egg serves as the base. I used my Stampin' Up! oval punch to make the pine cone scales. I partially folded each oval to help give some dimension and tapered the size of the scales to a smaller oval close to the top of the egg. Small pins hold the scales in place.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a fabulous idea. Great job. Love the color combo.
Dawn B.

Anonymous said...

I love this! Had to send it on to my daughter... she has the oval punch but it is on MY christmas list! :) HINT HINT COURTNEY! Thanks for the great idea! Pam

Tracy said...

Sarah~This is awesome! I can't wait to try on myself! Thanks for the great idea.

Jules said...

Bravo Sarah another fabulous creation!!!!

bethtrue said...

Sarah - this is just gorgeous!! Very nicely done; and that paper is awesome too! Thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas!

Anonymous said...

Great pine cone - great idea. TFS

Anonymous said...

Wonderful idea - kudos to you!

ann

Marnie said...

This is just lovely what a great idea!

Cathrine StClair said...

Sarah!! This is lovely. Great job.

Heather said...

Nice job Sarah! What a cool idea to make a pincecone. The pattern in the paper keeps your pine cone from being too heavy (if that makes sense?)

Connie Babbert said...

This is GORGEOUS! What a great idea to use the oval punches!

Anonymous said...

totally inspired! this is great and what an ingenious use of stuff we all probably already have layign around! Good stuff!

Apricot Andie said...

You have so many cute ideas my head is going to pop!

Debbie Olson said...

LOVE, love the differently-shaped scales on your version--fabulous!