I've been seeing a lot of these paper pinecones around Pinterest lately - don't you just love Pinterest!
Last weekend I decided to devote a bit of time in making my version of the paper pinecone - I found the process of punching paper, scoring, and folding the circles of paper to be so relaxing - meditative really.
Plus - it gave me a chance to play with glitter {gosh, I love glitter!}
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I posted a similar image on Instagram as part of Kim's new #mystillsundaycompetition - lots of awesome images in that feed!
I used one layer of Kim's "Belize" and "Avery" textures on the image above.
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This is how I made this version of Paper Pinecones:
- The paper pinecones start with a 3-inch round styrofoam ball (squish it a bit to make a pointy-like end).
- Glue a loop of ribbon on non-pointy end. I used 10-inches of ribbon so that I could have a 3-inch loop (which takes takes up 6 inches of the ribbon) and I then had two inches, on both ends, to glue in place.
- I punched out a bunch of 1-inch circles of paper - heavy paper that is printed on both sides (I ended up using a little more than two 12x12 inch squares of paper for these three pinecones).
- I scored each circle with a "Y" shape and folded along the scored edges. (Put aside a few circles without folds to start and end the pinecone.)
- Use hot glue to glue down a circle of paper on the pointy-like end. Then begin gluing the folded circles around the styrofoam ball in overlapping layers.
- Keep gluing circles until you reach the ribbon end. To finish, cut a slit in the center of a paper circle, slide the ribbon through the slit, and then glue down.
- I added glitter to the tips. The glitter that I had is very fine, white, and sugar-like.
I may make more of these - maybe with white paper and silver glitter. Wouldn't a nice scripted paper or an aged sheet-music paper look pretty?
I hope your day is awesome!
Be Wonderfully Odd!
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