We have been playing with Christmas patty pans (aka cupcake liners) at our place. We have mentioned previously our huge addiction to cupcake liners. We found the perfect red gingham liners for our Christmas baking, and discovered we had plenty of other patty pans in Christmas colours in our ever growing stash so it was time to put some of them to use! Inspired by the gorgeous Cupcake Liner Christmas Tree Toppers from the Cake Blog, we created some Paper Christmas Trees.
After removing the bases of the cupcake liners, the pleated paper strips are perfect to wrap around a polystyrene cone to from a Christmas tree. With so many Christmas themed patty pans/cupcake liners available, it is fun to make some trees for the Christmas table. Best of all they are really quick to assemble (under an hour to make three trees) and we had all the supplies on hand.
You will need:
- polystyrene cone (from craft stores)
- patty pans/cupcake liners (approx 12 for each tree)
- sequin pins
You just pin each layer, starting at the bottom. The bottom layers will need two strips, then just cut strips to fit. Each layer overlaps the one below it by approx 1/4 inch to cover the pins. When you get to the top, you cut a complete patty pan in half. Fold that in half again so you have a quarter Bend each side around to form a mini cone shape, pop that on top, and secure with pins ( you could use tape to hold the top together if you prefer). This gives it a nice pointy tip.
OMG, what a cute, cute idea!!!
Lindas árvores de Natal.
Bj
I love it!!! Great idea!!!!!
They are adorable!
I made the same thing last year and we loved them. They are so fun.
http://www.the36thavenue.com/2011/12/party-time-christmas-cards.html
I love also the idea of your cupcake toppers.Thank you for sharing!
I ♥ your blog and all these amazing ideas.
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very clever idea !
Really cute. Made one today and am searching for some cupcake papers to make some more. Thanks for the directions.
Wow these are really cute and easy to make, thanks for sharing 😀
Those are so cute! :0)
How beautifully clever!
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Jenny
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What a lovely project. I think these pops of red would look so pretty on our mantel or as a centerpiece on our kitchen table. Great way to use paper cupcake liners.
Oh that is adorable!
These are so cute! I’m glad you liked my baking paper garland (thanks for linking to it). I still have lots of liners left so I might have to try making these trees!
Oh they are so cute!, I love the red and white combo perfect!
Just too dang cute! Love the little deer and ornaments too.
Really effective! What a great idea, and you can get some beautiful metallic cupcake holders too – I can see loads of possibilities with this. Thanks for sharing:)
Oh that is so cute & beautiful. I just posted it here on my german blog: http://schoenstricken.de/2012/11/diy-weihnachtsbaum-auf-papierformchen-basteln/
Please see if that is ok with you.
Best from Berlin, Jessica
Fantastic. I love these. So pretty and a great centerpiece. Thanks for sharing the idea.
Heidi
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j’ai acheté pour faire !!!!! Ladyfée
Love the idea!
I’m off to buy some cones and papers 🙂
that’s lovely! I would love to try that paper christmas tree, they look lovely!!!!
What a pretty & simple idea! I can’t get hold of the polystyrene cone so I’m re purposing a cereal box & making a card cone! I’m hoping it works out as well, I’ll use a glue stick (or tape) instead of pins!
So clever! I shared your link and a pic on the All Things Paper Facebook page and it’s enjoying lots of Likes and comments. 🙂
Your trees are beautiful! I’m going to look for some cute cupcake liners too – there are so many pretty ones nowadays, aren’t there? I’ve got this linked to my Christmas trees post too today, it’s a little roundup of tree ideas!
Oh sweet!! This will really help my cupcake liner addiction! ;0) Linking this to our blog FB page! Thank you!
Hi,
I thought you might like to know that this tutorials as been plagiarised (http://craftstutorials.com/paper-christmas-tree) as mine was (http://www.nexttonicx.com/blog/?p=5497).
I’m seriously unimpressed, it looks as though they’ve copied all of their content from other blogs. So far every post I’ve googled belongs to someone else! I’m spending an hour or so to let others know.
Regards
Nicola
They look like something you’d buy from the store! So pretty. And it would be a fun craft to do with my 10yo