Ribbon Topiary Tree

Hi guys, im going to share with you today, this beautiful topiary tree that me & my DD have been working on.


I will use it for decorating the house when it comes to birthday's, anniversary's, easter, valentine's, the list is endless as it can be so versatile!!! I will be making a few more of these also, maybe in different colour's, i did think of doing some black ones for halloween!! They are so simple & easy to make.

You will need...
Some strips of ribbon
A polystyrene ball
A chipboard plant pot {or other?}
A wooden rod
White paint
Some pins
Sequins &/or other type {buttons?}
Floral foam or oasis
Needle & thread


Take a piece of ribbon & fold it in half, do not crease!


With your cotton thread, double it through the needle & tie a not at the end, so your thread doesnt come all the way though the fabric, kwim? Now start to thread the needle in & out of the ribbon


You can pull as you go, just to size up how much ribbon you'l need or to cut off any access


When you finished, pull tight & stitch the ends together




Once you have done this with all of your piece's of ribbon you can start to put together your tree, with a pin, sequin & flower, take the pin & thread it through the sequin, then the flower.




& push it into the polystyrene ball


It will look like this


Do this covering the whole of the ball, leaving a little gap for the wooden rod to be put in place, If you have any smaller gap's, you can fill them in with a sequin of bead as i have done here.




{I had picture's for this part, but accidently deleted them} I then painted my chipboard plant pot & wooden rod in white, but you can choose your own colour's, to what you have?

Using the end of a pair of sissor's carefully counterfit a hole into the ball & add your rod, you may need to use a bit of glue?


Add your floral foam/oasis into the pot & push the rod down into, you may want to use glue, but i found you dont really need to?


So now im left with this & i was going to add some fake moss, but as my tree is all white, i found some creape paper {which i already had anyway} & did this


This is where i did use glue to keep the paper in the pot, & to finish the tree


Hope you like it & if you decide to do somthing like this be sure to post it here or leave a link!!

This month there will be a "my scrapbbok nook"
http://alterdprojectinc.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-scrapbook-nook.html
may kit to win, so come on girl's get creating!!!

Sarah x