The Christmas tree has long been a mandatory attribute of the New Year holidays. Some plant real trees, while others prefer artificial ones. Sometimes several small decorative green beauties are placed around the house. You can buy them or design them yourself. The article will tell you how to make a Christmas tree topiary in several ways.
Manufacturing tips
If you want to quickly make Christmas decoration, then use the following method. Install a fluffy twig from the Christmas tree in a suitable pot, and strengthen it with pebbles or other weighting materials. For the manufacture of the base, you can use fast setting compounds. This is alabaster, gypsum and stucco.
To build a successful Christmas tree topiary with your own hands, it is important to remember one nuance. The diameter of the base of the container should be equal to the diameter of the crown of the future tree. Only in this case a harmonious and stable New Year's composition will turn out.
It is customary to decorate decorative Christmas trees in accordance with the style of the holiday. Suitable symbols of the year, Christmas garlands, miniature toys, candies, cones, tinsel and other decor. In principle, to make such a souvenir, you do not need step-by-step instructions. But the article will nevertheless present several master classes.
Christmas tree topiary - features of creating capacity and crown
As a basis for a decorative Christmas tree, you can take a vase, a pot, a beautiful jar or a glass. If nothing suitable was found, try making a container yourself from old newspapers and plasticine using the papier-mâché method. The process is so simple that even a child can handle it. The desired shape of the container is formed from plasticine, and then a newspaper is glued, torn into small pieces. The more layers you make, the more durable the papier-mâché will become.
Traditionally, the crown of the topiary has a spherical shape. But for the Christmas tree you have to make an exception by making it in the form of a cone. A round Christmas toy, tennis balls or a balloon is suitable as a basis. It can also be made of cardboard, cut out of a piece of polystyrene or a frozen mounting foam.
Consider how to make Christmas tree topiary from sisal. It’s worth starting with preparing the necessary materials.
Sisal product: materials
For the future New Year tree you will need:
- Two sheets of cardboard in A4 format.
- Sheet sisal (but also suitable for bundles).
- Rags, scraps of cardboard.
- Small cylindrical capacity.
- Wooden stick or thick floristic wire (5 millimeters).
- Glue gun and rods to it.
- Thin wire.
- PVA glue and "Moment" (it is better to take the "Crystal").
- Gypsum.
- Artificial snow.
- Various ribbons, beads and other decor to taste.
It should be noted that in some cities it is very difficult to find sisal for sale. But do not despair. For example, it can be replaced with thin tulle. Cute New Year tree-topiary will also come out of this material.
Base for sisal topiary
It’s better to start creating a topiary from the base on which the whole decor will be attached. Most often, foam cones are taken for sisal trees, but they are not sold everywhere. Cardboard sheets will come to the rescue. Using a compass on one of them, you need to draw a semicircle, and then cut it out. Roll the workpiece into a cone and glue the sidewalls with “Crystal Moment”. You can cut off the top of the cone, literally two millimeters, so that later it would be easier to decorate the Christmas tree topiary.
The basis for the crown of the tree must be reliable, so it needs to be slightly heavier. For this, fragments of a corrugated cardboard or some rags are suitable. It is necessary to fill this cone, trying not to mash. In parallel, you can use glue. It is better to start from the walls, and to finish with the center. Somewhere in the middle of the process, you need to insert a thick floristic wire into the base and secure it with the “Moment”.
On another cardboard sheet, make a hole in the middle, stretch the wire and circle the base of the compass. To do this, you will have to hold the cone a little on weight. Next, draw denticles to the circle so that it resembles the sun, and cut the workpiece. Attach the base of the tree cone to it. Bend the drawn cloves and glue the “moment”.
Work with capacity
The future Christmas tree topiary needs to be strengthened in the prepared container. For example, it can be a small plastic bucket or a cup from children's dough. Previously, you can decorate the capacity so that it has a New Year's style.
In a separate bowl, dilute the gypsum. To do this, it is recommended to take about two parts of water. Stir well and pour the mixture into the prepared bucket. Insert the wire with the cone in the middle and hold for several minutes so that the gypsum grip a little. Wait until it completely hardens, and only then can you start decorating.
Sisal tree decoration
This is the most interesting part of creating a decorative beauty. Insert a thin wire into the crown of the cone and glue it well. Now you can lay sisal. It is better to start from the top, while bonding with glue. As a decoration, you can add satin bows, tiny balls or pearl half beads.
Gypsum is also necessary to decorate. To do this, you can use artificial snow, cotton wool or decorative pebbles. So you made a Christmas tree topiary with your own hands!
Coffee Tree Materials
New Year's coffee topiary is a stylish, spectacular and fragrant decoration. To make it, you need the following inventory:
- Cardboard or thick brown paper.
- Coffee beans.
- Ball of twine.
- Glue gun.
- Wooden skewer.
- Capacity for stand.
- Building plaster.
- Bronze gouache.
- Sponge.
- Satin ribbon bow.
- Scotch.
- Decor for decoration (small toys, garlands, tinsel, beads, etc.).
Making a frame for a coffee tree
Form a cone from brown cardboard and cut its lower part evenly. Fix the edges with adhesive tape.
Now you can start making the Christmas tree trunk. On a cardboard, draw a circle so that it closely fits into the lower part of the cone. Cut the workpiece and stick a wooden skewer in the middle. Insert the circle into the cone. For reliability, glue all joints with glue.
In a separate container, dilute the gypsum and pour it into the prepared container. After insert there a wooden skewer with a cone. Hold the workpiece until the binder has hardened. Now you can decorate the Christmas tree topiary made of coffee beans.
Coffee tree decor
Glue the cardboard cone with coffee beans. To avoid gaps, it is better to make two or three layers. Place each seed in the gaps between the previous ones. It is recommended to take suitable in size and shape so that they stand up like a mosaic. If all the gaps do not close - it's okay. They are camouflaged by decor.
Apply bronze paint to the sponge and gently tint coffee beans. When everything dries up, glue a satin ribbon bow onto the crown. Crown to decorate to your taste. For example, you can glue cream bows and half beads under pearls.
In principle, everything is done. But to make the crafts more tender, imitate snow. Apply glue to the brush and smear the crown in a chaotic manner. Sprinkle on top with semolina immediately. Paste the stand with sisal, cones, confetti or Christmas tree needles. Now the winter Christmas tree topiary is ready!
Christmas tree made of tinsel
Such craftsmanship is very fast. This will require the following materials:
- Tinsel of different colors.
- A small pot with a hole in the middle.
- Cardboard cone.
- Little christmas balls.
- Flax thread.
- Wooden skewers (about four pieces).
- Scissors.
- Glue.
- Adhesive tape ordinary and double-sided.
- Clay.
How to make topiary from tinsel?
Put the wooden skewers together and carefully bandage them with linen thread. It is important that the winding is tight and does not go against each other. Paste sticks into the hole in the pot and cut off all the excess. Can be bonded with glue.
How to make a cardboard cone, you know. Put it on sticking sticks, and glue the joints. Attach Christmas balls in a chaotic manner to the surface of the cone using a transparent tape. You need to decorate the Christmas tree topiary in this order, otherwise everything will fall off in the future. Now cling to the whole cone with pieces of double-sided tape. Gradually remove the film from it, starting from the top of the tree, and wrap the crown with tinsel.
Pour clay into a pot for stability. You can lay cotton wool on top to simulate snow. Cover the top of the pot with double-sided tape and decorate with colored tinsel. Craft is ready!
Now you know how to make your own Christmas tree topiary for the New Year. Make some of these trees and decorate your house with them for the upcoming holiday!