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Button Christmas Tree Tutorial

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Try making this beautiful Button Christmas Tree ornament.
Simple and festive.

I made these last year after I’d seen them online so often but never got round to making them. I’m glad I did because they’re so cute!

Make yours in only ten easy steps…

Button Christmas Trees - The Last Krystallos

1. Collect an assortment of different sized green and brown buttons and some thin gauge craft wire.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

2. Jewellery odds and ends, tiny beads, or sequins make excellent decorations for the top of the tree.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

3. Arrange four small brown buttons for the trunk and about 9 green buttons for the tree. Cut a length of wire.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

4. Double over the wire and thread the trunk buttons first.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

5. Then thread the green tree buttons largest to smallest. Remember thread through holes opposite as shown not beside each other.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

6. Thread largest through to smallest buttons.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

7. Your basic Christmas tree....

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

8. Add a tiny bead or a sequin as a top of the tree decoration.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

9. Add a sequin, bead, old earring back, or odd piece of jewellery as a topper.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

10. Twist the ends of the wire together so you can hang the ornament.

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

11. Hang your Button Christmas Tree on your Christmas tree

Button Christmas Tree Tutorial © Lisa Shambrook

Have an amazing Christmas!

Steampunk Christmas Tree Bauble

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Photograph by Lisa Shambrook & Instagram 
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Still enjoying a writing hiatus and catching up with some crafting ideas… Rather consumed with Steampunk right now, and wanted a steampunk bauble for the Christmas tree, but couldn’t find one, so made my own:

1. Find (or buy) a single Christmas Bauble. Mine was 49p for 3 at my local garden centre. Stick with gold, silver, chrome, brown or neutral colours.

2. Using tweezers and superglue or another strong glue (Glue gun is too messy) add cogs, gears etc. I bought a small packet of old watch mechanisms for a couple of pounds on Ebay.
3. It helps with precision to place the bauble in an egg cup as you work.
4. Add a ribbon to hang it with.
All Photos by Lisa Shambrook 
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And there you are, a Steampunk Christmas Tree bauble…