This is a continuation of the Pine Cone Christmas tree project. In this part of the tutorial I show you how to make some terrific little christmas presents to go under the tree. If you came directly to this page you can see the tutorial on how to make the pine cone christmas tree here.

Let's make some presents. And you don't have to just make square packages. Have fun with this and make gift bags and other things too..

You can see in the picture here a nice variety of gifts, bows, bags, and even envelopes. Nice!!

I will give you some tips on how to make presents like these.

For the traditional boxes of presents simply carved some foam to the desired shape. You could use just about anything including bits of cardboard or even clay shaped into boxes.

For the most part the best thing for this kind of project is patterned paper. I have all kinds of different patterns that I can use. You can use real wrapping paper or even cut snippets from magazines and flyers to give you some great colors and patterns.

The piece of patterned paper shown above was perfect to make a miniature shopping bag. Add a little bit of wire for the handle.

And a little bit of wire makes a terric bow and ribbon on a present.

Cut some strips of foil paper or silver colored paper and you have some great ribbon.

Some gold foil wrapped around a cylineder of rolled paper makes a great wine holder. A bit of wire is perfect for the handle.

A little bit of copper wire is perfect for the handle.

I glued a piece of gold paper to the bottom of the wine holder then cut it to shape. You can see that I originally made the container out of foam then I covered it with the gold paper.

And there you go. The completed presents under the pine cone christmas tree. And you can also see the envelope that was made out of gold paper.

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