Surprise! It's more Christmas crafts.
I found the idea for a Christmas tree made from wine corks
in a Martha Stewart magazine probably 6 years ago.
After saving corks for a while I decided it was time to make another one
and this time I changed it up a bit.
Make it happen:
You need a large Styrofoam cone, a hot glue gun,
a knife that will cut through cork,
and about 85 wine corks and one champagne cork.
Starting at the bottom hot glue each cork vertically to the cone
until you make one row.
Change it up and hot glue two rows horizontally.
Continue until you have reached the top.
Hot glue a champagne cork to cover the top of the cone.
Because each wine cork is different you may end up with a gap in your row. You can take a sharp knife and cut a cork to fit the gap, or if you are like me you can just leave the gap and make sure the tree is angled just right on your mantle so no one can see it.
Most likely you are not going to have 85 corks lying around...
unless you are like me and like to hoard save them for craft projects.
But you can start saving for next year,
and have your friends save their corks too.
You never know when you might need to make something out of corks.
so cute! i love it :) and i love decorating with wine corks! i'm pretty sure we have at least 85 wine corks (not sure what that says about me) b/c i've been saving them for "something" but have to commit to one thing! i just keep putting them in jars for decor ;)
ReplyLook at how crafty you are! I love it. I'll have to start saving mine up so I can make one next year.
ReplyI love how yours turned out!! & I definitely have a ton of wine corks saved up myself... ;)
Replyanother great idea from you! you are so crafty :)
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