Rosette Christmas Tree Tutorial

I promised you the tutorial to  make this cool Rosette tree so here it is: 

Step 1:

Cut lots of strips of designer series paper for your rosettes.  Here are my measurements from bottom to top:

• two 2" X 12" strips for the bottom
• two 1 3/4" X 12" strips
• two sets of two -  1 1/2" X 12" strips (this will make two separate rosettes)
• two sets of two - 1 1/4" X 12" strips (for two separate rosettes, glue one tighter than the other)
• one 1 1/8" X 12" strip
• one 1" X 12" strip
• one 3/4" X 12" strip for the top

Step 2:

Glue the two strips together to form a circle.  In the top three rosettes you will just have one strip forming your rosette.

This is what it looks like when the ends are attached to form a circle.

Step 3:

I used hot glue to attach the rosette to a large punched circle.  **See photo on the above right. You may even need one circle on both sides.  I used various sized of circle punches for each layer.

Step 4:

I was trying to save a bit of time even though I wanted a taller tree.  So to avoid making more rosettes I added stacked dimensionals between the punched circles between each layer of rosettes.  If you do this make sure to add more dimensionals than I did - spread them out all over the punched circle, not just in one stack.  After my tree was together it became a leaning Dr. Seuss tree!  So do this only if you want a slightly jiggly tree! 

*****In hind sight I would add more rosettes instead of the popped up/dimensional layers. 

Step 5:

I do not have a photo of this but I just stacked the rosettes in descending size to the top.  I used hot glue to adhere them together. 

Step 6:

I made one last Chocolate Rosette from a 3/4" X 11" strip of card stock for the 'tree trunk'.  I used my silicone mat to form this strip into a rosette with hot glue and adhered it to my Red tree skirt. The stack of Olive rosettes was adhered to this 'trunk'.

You may be wondering how I got such a large 'tree skirt' from the floral framelits.  I acutally cut two using the largest Floral Framelit die from the Candlelight Specialty series paper and cut them apart to spread the skirt wider.  Because of the detailed print it this cut does not show at all. 

I punched out a few Merry Mini ornaments from Red & Champagne glimmer card stock and adhered them to the tree with glue dots.  The star is hand cut since we do not have a current star punch or star die at this time. 

Hope you like the tutorial.  I'd love to see your version of a Rosette tree if you make one! 

Comments

[Kathy]

So cute....may have to try it! If I do, I'll either use the star punch from the Merry Mini's Punch Pack on page 6 of the Holiday catalog or the star from the Scentsational Season Bundle Framelits on page 16 of the Holiday catalog.

[Dawn Moore]

This is the cutest!!

[lisa eriksmoen]

I saw your tree on Pintrest today:)

[Patricia Gessner]

Thank you so much for the great tutorial. This tree looks sooooo nice!