DIY: Beautiful Tree Lights for Holiday Decorating
Hello everyone!!! It’s Shari here and I’m really excited to share a simple but mighty pretty DIY project with you today!!
I just love making handmade projects for holiday decorating and this one is super simple. I’ve combined my love of Foil papers with the most genius die ever… the Tim Holtz Tree Light die. These can be made into luminaries or ornaments for your tree.
This die set has two sizes and cuts triangular trees with design cut outs on each side. Score lines are included to help you fold these into their shapes. And, there is a hole in the bottom so the finished tree can sit on top of an LED tea light as its base. Now isn’t that brilliant?
I’ve tried out a variety of papers, some have texture, some are smooth foil and I have also silver embossed a background image onto regular cardstock for completely different look. Tim Holtz just came out with some new Metallic Papers that would be gorgeous for this project, I’ve listed them below. To finish your trees off, you can use washi tape on the tea lights or paint them with a quick coat of Distress Brushed Pewter paint.
I also thought these would be great to hang on the Christmas tree as an ornament. You could position them to sit over cool touch bulbs on your tree to light them up. I pierced through the top of the tree and strung them with silver thread. Now I can’t wait to decorate the whole house!!
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Thanks for stopping by today, I hope I’ve inspired you to try your hand at some Holiday DIY Tree Lights!!! Enjoy!!
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Beautiful!
These look wonderful in the coloured metallic cardstocks and I love the idea of hanging them – I can just see them at varying levels hanging, lit up, in a window. Or in a metallic silver, or pearly white, with coloured lights inside! Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous Shari, love the ones with the heat embossing on top. Great idea. These dies should certainly be awesome wiht the new Metallic Cardstock by Tim Holtz.
Thank you for showing this and have a great Sunday.
so cute
What a delightful way to create holiday decor and favors. tfs
These are so pretty!
What sweet trees! I am going to make some for my co workers desks! thanks!
Thanks for the video–these are so pretty and look like a lot of fun to make!
Thanks for sharing this beautiful idea!!! Great project!!!
Love the lights. They are
small enough to place around
the house for decorations.
thanks for sharing
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Love your trees .
Such cute ideas. A perfect way to dress up your holiday decorations.
Gorgeous, elegant and oh so creative!
Love these! Love the metallic paper and the lights and the inspiration!
These are so beautiful and so cleverly created for easy assembly. Tim Holtz is like the “mad scientist” of the crafting world. LOL!
These are so fun & beautiful!
I love this idea. I may have to make some!!
These are GENIUS! So BEAUTIFUL!
I love this idea. I may have to make some!!
WOW… gorgeous! Thanks for so much for sharing.
These trees are so fun! I love how you’ve used the different papers and the silver embossing looks fabulous! Such a great idea to hang them on the tree and let a cool light shine through. These would make such a great hostess gift this holiday, they could use them right through the New Years festivities! Thanks for sharing.
a bright idea!
These ate so pretty, festive and fabulous!
Beautiful and elegant!
Darling little trees for holiday decorating!
WOW these are amazing!!! I must get my hands on this die:)
Love these, the colours are simply amazing – so mesmerising!
Shari these are so festive… many years ago from a school fund raiser I purchased a set of four brass lanterns that fit over a bulb on my string of lights. They are so wonderful, I was sorry I didn’t buy more. Now with these dies, I can add more!! Thanks for the intro and your as always great video. Happy Thanksgiving.
What a cute idea. At first I thought that you used real candles and I wondered! But this is such a cool idea!
These look great. What a nice table decoration they would make.
So beautiful and so many possibilities. Thanks for sharing.
Loving these tress. You could make a gorgeous forest of different colored/patterned trees. Great die set!
Cute idea!
Wonderful idea Shari. Love all the pretty colors!
Great idea! Love your use of foil and embossing, the trees look wonderful.
These are absolutely awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
These are so cool! Super fun and super festive!
Wow! These are gorgeous and I can see many ways/places they could be used. Wouldn’t they be a fun craft project with kids about 8 yrs. and up?
OIh my – these are darling! PErfect for any tree!
Brilliant idea! Thanks so much for the video. Cheers.
These are so pretty and festive.
These are Beautiful!!! These would look soooo Awesome on a tree. Great idea!!!
These are perfect little favors for our holiday parties!
With just hubby and I here, I’m not planning much decorating, but I think a few little trees like these either in groups or scattered about would be a cheerful reminder of the season. Very nice.
These are so beautiful Shari and I love the idea of using them on the tree too. Such a fantastic Christmas decoration.
Awesome dimensional trees, I love the ornament idea!
these are stunning
Such a great idea!
What beautiful trees!
Great idea!