Christine de Beer - effortless floral craftsman
Autumn leaf Christmas tree stack
- 24 October 2018
- click to send Christine a smile
- and more
You can also find a video Tutorial of this design in the design post below.
Drill a small hole in a piece of lumber.
Cut wire at a sharp angle...
The sharp angle of the wire makes it easier to skewer leaves without ripping them.
Stand the wire in the lumber, with the sharp end facing up.
Sort the leaves into stacks similar in size.
Set aside the two smallest leaves to use as a tree topper.
Pick up the stack with the largest leaves and fan them out. The stem ends should point in all directions.
Skewer the leaves onto the wire.
Skewer the leaves, stack after stack, progressively getting smaller.
Stack the leaves almost all the way to the top of the wire, leaving a tiny bit of wire to attach the tree topper.
Glue the two small leaves, back to back.
Slip the leaves over the wire to end off the stack and create the tree topper.
Sign up for my weekly newsletter
Every week I add a new design with related tutorials. Be sure to subscribe to receive an email notification with design inspiration.
Tutorials
Wire is always sold in a roll and it can be very frustrating to try to remove bends, kinks and curls.
Pike a few (hundred!) autumn leaves to build up a hollow leaf armature
Hide the water source in a rolled leaf
Related Designs
Quick and easy: Stack autumn leaves onto a wire for a... tiny table top Christmas tree.
Spike a few hundred fall leaves to create a cauldron for Halloween flowers
A design demonstration and workshop at the Floral Trends Design group in South Africa exploring how we emulate nature’s best biological ideas to solve our modern day design...
Skewer Dracaena leaves into a roll that supports a tiny water source for the Oncidium orchids
Pleats are accordion like folds of equal width in alternating opposite directions in any kind of fabric. I absolutely love the tight buds of Allium and they represent the...