Paperback Novel Trees and counting chrimbly numbers 18

In a small ex-industrial linear village, lined with stone terraces and squashed cottages, a little home pressed up against a shop opposite a local supermarket has the delightful view of a soulless tarred car-park. Quietly it has a very small and almost indiscernible house number at pavement level.

Paperback Novel Trees

You will need ...

Pages from a thrown away novel

Ruler

Hole punch

Wooden skewers

Small block or wood or wooden buttons

Drill (may not require)

Stars - sticky, button, hand drawn

Scissors
Extras - small vase or pots, ethically gathered moss 

1. Fold your page in half - but only pinch the top crease, try not to bend the remaining paper

2. Draw from the central top fold down to create a triangle. Some trees I made were very narrow tall triangles, others fatter and wider

3.Cut out the triangle, keep the off-cuts - they may be a good shape to make tall thin trees

4. Fold the triangle in a concertina pattern, starting from the base. Narrow folds give a nice zig-zag tree but see what you think

5. Punch a hole in the middle of your folds - you may have to do in several stages if you have a small hole punch

6. Thread your wooden skewer through the holes

7.  If you find the peak tends to tip over, which I did, you can lightly pierce the top triangle with the skewer point which works well to keep the tree upright

8.  Before you attach your tree to it's base, this is a good time to add your star to the top. I used a star shaped button and tied it to the top of the skewer. Equally a star sticker would work just as well

9. Insert your skewer tree trunks into the pre-drilled block of wood or in wooden buttons (I was lucky enough to be gifted some ages ago and never had a use for them - until now!) 

Ta-Da!

In my enthusiasm for making my Paperback Novel Trees, I ran out of bases, so I filled a little jar with moss and 'planted' three more trees :) 

If you have been inspired by my tutorial, 

please could you be so kind to link back to my blog

I would love to see your little trees :)

Linking with Julie's Advent

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