In my early teens, my grandma, sisters, and I would make these pinecone ornaments with cut-up ribbon. My mom still has a few on her Christmas tree that we made and I enjoy looking at them each year and remembering the good times we had making them.
Since becoming a Hybrid Chick here at The Hybrid Chick, I’ve been looking forward to trying these out with my digital supplies for Christmas time. I figured that I could just as easily take some digital papers, print them off, cut them up and then pin them on a Styrofoam egg just as easily as I could when I made them with ribbon. Boy was I right!
It was fun choosing which Christmas kit to use for this project. I ended up choosing Pixel Gypsy’s ‘Just Jolly’ kit.
First off, I printed off the digital paper I wanted to use on Red River Paper and let it dry. I ended up using about 1 1/2 pages of 8.5×11 paper, but I’m sure it would vary depending on how layered you want the pinecone to look. I cut the paper into 1 inch strips.
Then I cut them again at about 1 inch and then folded each one so that there was a point on one side, as seen below.
Next, I took the Styrofoam egg and the short applique pins and started attaching the folded papers on the narrow part of the egg first.
I worked my way around and up the egg to the wide part. Once I got to the top, I left some unused portion of the egg open so I could add the ribbon and some embellishments. I used a hot glue gun to add the embellishments.
This project was as much fun to make as the ones I made in my teenage years with my family! I will definitely be making more.
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Jackie – these are just amazing! I’ve never heard of these before but they would be fairly easy for kids to help make to give as inexpensive teacher gifts!!!
Love these! I’ve never seen them before but I will definitely be putting these on my gift packages and make a e couple more for my tree.
What a fun idea, Jackie!! It looks like you purchased it at one of those specialty stores!
Very cute!! Love the idea & looks like a great project to try with the kids!
This is fabulous!! I can see a whole tree decorated with these
WOW!! these are amazing, stunning work! thanks for sharing this!
these rock jackie! i might give them a shot!
This is gorgeous! I’ve been looking for hybrid ornament ideas and will definitely have to give this a try!
What a great and easy-to-master idea! Thanks for the inspriration!
holy cow~!!! the most amazing ever!!! thank you for the great tutorial!
Oh, how pretty–lovely job!!
You know, if you guys could just be a LITTLE LESS AWESOME………
this is just a fabulous idea! I think I just found some perfect papers in my dropbox! hmmmmmmmmmmm, woo hoo
Very cool! I will have to try this!!
Wow, this is amazing! I love your idea, papers and cool silver and glittzy look for the wreath. A genius of an idea. Thanks for sharing.
So very pretty!
So pretty! Thanks for sharing!
Oh is this ever cute, I love it!
wow these are amazing… and so easy!
I love this!! So pretty and now I want to make some too!! Thanks for sharing!
Love it! That is the ornament I am making this year for my friends.
These are just stunning … love them
A friend of mine posted a link to your tutorial on facebook and when I saw your pinecone I couldn’t resist, had to try it!
I’ve made 9 of them so far… lol I find this is such a clever and creative idea and they’re pretty easy to make too. Just wanted to thank you for sharing! 
Thanks so much for sharing the how to! I have seen these and been dying to know how they are made! I really appreciate it!
HUGS!
I love this! I would love for you to link up on my blog here:
http://singingthreelittlebirds.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-ornament-link-up-singing.html
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Oh my goodness – these are amazing! I’m adding this to my to-do list. Gorgeous!
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