Framed 3D Christmas Tree

Ok so I made this tree for our house over a week ago, but have been busy with work and never got around to working through my pictures to make a post.  I have to tell you, I am sooo super stoked about it!  I knew I'd been wanting to make something like it, but never really tried yet. 
If you want to jump to the end to see it, go ahead...but if you'd like to blindly follow me through my crazy tutorial, I'd LOVE to show you how to make one too!

You'll need:

   A frame, the size of your choosing (hopefully thrifted, like mine was)

   Coordinating scrapbook paper of your choice

   Roll or sheet of foam double sided tape

   Scissors (of course)

   Paint color of your choice

   Oh, and the use of a computer & printer

Pick your paper:

 I chose 4 different patterns for:

background

tree

& two for the ornaments.

Next, you'll need to find a tree pattern online, or create one if you'd like.

I found this one:

Source

With your fave snazzy chosen tree paper, print out this pattern.  Make sure you put your paper in upside down so that the pattern will print on the blank side.  I used photoshop to edit the size of my tree so that it would be nice & big to fit in my frame & I also grayscaled it so I wouldn't be wasting any pretty ink.

 By the way.  Don't you love my great new printer?!  It's an awesome wireless update of the old hp all-in-one I've had since college...hubby got it on sale for $20 at Staples because they'd used it as a display!  20 bucks!!

Cut out your tree.  Doesn't it look good against the background paper already?  Now, I don't know if this would work with any pattern you find, but I chose mine so that I could do this:

Fold it like so.

 So that it jumps out a little like this!

Once your tree is pretty, you'll need to find an ornament pattern.  I found a great set of 3/4...

Here

 I picked out 2 different paper patterns for my ornaments...blue winter swirls & red polka dots.  Print your pattern and cut out whichever ornaments you want.

Use your foam tabs on the back of each and scatter them over your tree pattern.

Then do the same to the back of your completed tree and stick the whole thing to your background paper.

If you hadn't had a chance to already (I didn't necessarily make this in the nicely organized order I've made up here)...grab your frame and fix it up a little bit.

$0.10 woohoo!

I painted mine bright red!  

Now, once everything's foam tab covered & painted, put it all together.  I chose to not put my glass frame cover back on to let the tree stick out.  I also had to trim my background paper a little bit to fit snugly in the frame.  All done?!  Me too.  

Here's mine!:

Do you like it?!  I love it's simplicity.  

I'm also in the middle of making a mini gingerbread style one too!  I'm just also in the middle of making 15 million Christmas presents so I'll get it up as soon as I can!

I hope you like it and might try to make one too!  If you do, please let me know!  I'd love to see it!!

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Happy Friday!!