Last week’s project was creating this 8×10 tree silhouette out of Kraft paper with a newspaper backdrop.
A friend and I were looking at cool magazine art on Pinterest a few weeks back, so I got one of the newspapers that was going to get recycled at work and have been slowly working on this glue-stick-and-paper-strip intensive craft. Tip: don’t even try to cut in a straight line, just pretend you want that homemade look. Takes the pressure off 😉
I used two Kraft paper cardstock pieces… one for the background, and one where I just made this tree design with the scissors. I cut all the strips from different parts of the paper, glued them on one by one, and finally, pasted the tree on top.
I considered painting the tree a different color, but I kind of like the simplicity here. The next step? A black 11×14 frame with a white or cream matte. What do you think? Framed, posted on the wall, or maybe hanging from an inspiration board?
All you need to recreate this is: paper, scissors, and glue! Just like when we were kids!
What a cool project! Great job!
That looks very cool! Haha, I love that tip too. I once started to make this HUGE poster with straight cut lines, it was sooo much work. It’s still not finished, though I have plans of continuing one day;)
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that’s seriously awesome! gosh, i wish i was that creative with paper goods. xo.
this turned out great! what a unique idea 🙂
xo dana
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Cheers, Elizabeth