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Topiary “Herringbone” is a unique New Year’s souvenir that creates an elevated festive mood. This decorative tree can be decorated in accordance with the symbolism of the coming year, which will make the gift even more relevant.

A DIY Christmas tree topiary can be decorated with a variety of materials. Tangerines, sweets, Christmas tree decorations, sisal, and fir cones are suitable. There is the widest scope for imagination! You can use the technique of combining different materials in one composition, and it will only benefit from this. But for a beginner in this fascinating business, it still makes sense to follow the proposed step-by-step instructions.

Options for creating a topiary “Herringbone”

Elena 11/22/2016

The children and I made a bright Christmas tree just like in the first picture out of balloons. We bought plastic balls. We made a cone out of paper to guide this shape. We connected the balls using instant glue; you only need a drop of it and it holds well. The result was incredible beauty. Unusual and bright. Now we’ve got the idea to make a big Christmas tree like this, but here you can’t get by with a couple of sets of balls)

Ekaterina 11/27/2016

In kindergarten there was an assignment to make a craft for the New Year. I do it every year and my imagination has already run out a little. After thinking for a long time, I decided to make a three-dimensional Christmas tree. It turned out to be about 30 centimeters high. I made the base from whatman paper and used old beads to decorate Christmas trees. I also covered the entire cone with pine needles. Thin tinsel and rain entwined the entire base. My daughter and I made Christmas tree decorations from colored paper and also glued them to our Christmas tree.

Rimma 08/14/2017

I want to make such an original topiary for the New Year, I love making all kinds of crafts with my own hands and then decorating my home with them. By the way, this is also a wonderful gift.

Valeria 08/30/2017

Last year, my daughter and I made a topiary Christmas tree using green-painted spiral pasta. It turned out very unusual and beautiful, this year we want to build a Christmas tree from acorns - the material has already been prepared.

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Recently, various types of DIY crafts have become increasingly popular. A special trend is topiary, decorative trees made from coffee or other scrap materials. Today I want to show you how to make a herringbone coffee topiary. It's very easy, even easier than regular coffee topiary. And so, let's get to work, or rather, to prepare materials.

To create a coffee tree you will need:
coffee beans can be bought in packages or by weight,
hot glue,
a cup or glass for the base of the Christmas tree,
ribbon for decoration,
twine,
cardboard,
brown acrylic paint.




First, we need to prepare the base for the Christmas tree - it will be a cone. The cone can be made from cardboard. Or make it out of plain paper and use the papier-mâché technique to seal the cone. It all depends on you, I have a papier-mâché cone.




We paint the cone with brown paint, since the coffee beans are not ideal and do not have the same structure, the base of the cone may be slightly translucent, so we prime the surface with brown acrylic paint. We begin to glue the grains. I glued them starting from the bottom. The grains were glued with the flat side down. Since we will be gluing the coffee in two layers, we will be gluing the second layer with the flat side up.




And so, row by row, we get a cone blank covered with grains.




We do not cover the top with grains, leaving room for decoration. This is the first layer of grains.




We glue the second layer on top of the previous one, trying to fill all the empty spaces so that the base is not visible.




Now let's make decorations for the Christmas tree. This will be a bow. I just beautifully folded the ribbon in the shape of a bow and secured it with special wire.




We insert the decoration into the top. You can fix it with hot glue. The Christmas tree is already so beautiful. You can make a base and leave it that way, but it won’t be topiary. And we will make a leg for the Christmas tree.



Now we are preparing a pot for our tree. You can take any cup with a coffee theme, or take a paper glass, you can cover it with twine. We glue it with PVA glue, then your cup will look neat.




You can use a tree branch or wooden skewers as a trunk for topiary.
The weighting agent in our cup will be pebbles from the sea, or you can simply fill everything with plaster, whichever is more convenient for you. Attach the base of the trunk with hot glue








We seal our Christmas tree with paper.








We cover the cardboard with coffee.




Attach the Christmas tree to the base.



Here our Christmas tree is ready. It turned out to be a beauty.



You can attach coffee beans to the pebbles.




This is how a miracle happened for me. Try it, I'm sure you will succeed too.
This tree will decorate your kitchen or living room.
Happy creativity!



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Nowadays, the tendency to replace live Christmas trees with artificial ones is becoming very common. You can easily buy an artificial Christmas tree in any supermarket, but it is much more interesting to make it yourself from scrap materials.

There are quite a few options for making Christmas trees. A Christmas tree can be made from almost anything: paper, candy, feathers, pine cones, fabric, etc. And it is not at all necessary to be a professional designer in order to create your own unique, one and only Christmas tree.

Imagination and a little patience, and you can make any Christmas tree with your own hands. Those who love coffee and the aroma of coffee beans will surely enjoy it coffee tree. Such a Christmas tree will not only be a wonderful, and most importantly, incredibly fragrant New Year’s interior decoration, but also an original gift option for friends and relatives.

Dimensions Christmas trees made from coffee beans may be different, but it is better to make small coffee trees that can be placed on a table or bedside table. As a base, you can use either a foam cone or a cardboard one.

So, before moving on to a description of the manufacturing process Christmas trees made from coffee, let’s figure out what materials you will need for your work:

• coffee beans (the number of beans depends on the size of the Christmas tree you are going to make),
• foam or cardboard cone,
• adhesive plaster,
• brown acrylic paint (can be replaced with instant coffee mixed with PVA glue),
• brush,
• hot glue (glue gun),
• scissors.

If the Christmas tree has a curved crown, then additionally use a little wire with a diameter of 3 mm.

For a twine stand:

• jute twine,
• wire 3mm,
• thick cardboard.

Decorations for the Christmas tree as desired: beads or large beads, sparkles, etc.

First let's prepare twine stand for our Christmas tree. You will need: thick corrugated cardboard, twine and some wire with a diameter of 3mm.

Using any available means (a glass or a compass), draw 2 circles on cardboard and cut them out. We make a hole in one of them.

We fix 3-4 wires to the bottom circle with hot glue and bring them together in the center (as in the photo).

We coat it with hot glue and on top, bringing out a bundle of wire in the middle of the upper circle, we fix the entire structure.

Carefully wrap the entire stand in a spiral with twine.

Now you need to decide what kind of Christmas tree you will make: with a flat or curved crown. The cone can be used either from foam or cardboard.

If the Christmas tree has a curved top, then fix a wire of the required length in the center of the top. The length depends on exactly how the top of the Christmas tree will be curved.

We wrap the entire cone with adhesive tape.

We make a hole in the bottom middle and carefully place the cone on the base leg.

We paint the entire cone with brown acrylic paint; if you don’t have it, you can replace it with regular gouache or make the following mixture (1:1 water and PVA, and generously add instant coffee). Apply all compounds with a regular brush, covering the entire cone. We are waiting for it to dry completely.

or with a curved crown... Don’t forget to make a loop at the end for attaching the decoration.

After our piece is completely dry, we can start decorating it with coffee beans.

It’s up to you to decide how exactly to glue the coffee beans; here, as in decorating the Christmas tree, it’s all a matter of taste and personal preference.

You can simply glue the coffee beans as close to each other as possible, trying to close all the gaps. Twist the grain in different directions, choosing the optimal placement option. If the grain does not fit or does not sit well, you need to take another one, since coffee beans only look the same, but in fact they have slightly different shapes and sizes. If you cannot completely close all the gaps, you can later correct this when decorating the Christmas tree.

You can glue the grains like a cone, each next row is glued with a slight overlap on the previous one in a checkerboard pattern.

In this case, I used paper twine for decoration: I unrolled the twine and cut valanches for my coffee tree.

For decoration, you can use any decorative elements: small Christmas tree decorations, sequins, rhinestones, braid and ribbons, feathers, nuts and much more.

You can create the effect of a snow-covered Christmas tree by using semolina. The places where it will be applied are smeared with transparent nail polish, and semolina is sprinkled on top. Some grains may fall off, but the main part will stick.

Using this principle, you can make any coffee tree, and that’s the beauty of this master class. I hope that the readers of the site will like it. And you can decorate such Christmas trees in different ways. Imagine, surprising your loved ones and friends with original gifts!

Today I got something like this Christmas tree made of twine and coffee beans! All that remains is to rejoice and inhale its wonderful aromas.

This coffee tree will be a wonderful decoration for the New Year's table and will create a festive atmosphere in any home. You can also give it to relatives, friends or work colleagues, I’m sure they will be pleased with such a creative gift.

I was glad to help!

A homemade Christmas tree made from coffee beans is a great New Year gift for every coffee lover. Such topiary can become not only a cute table decoration at home or in the workplace, but also a kind of flavoring agent: many coffee lovers love the smell of coffee beans. The advantage of this gift is that it is very inexpensive: to make it you will need simple available materials, many of which can be found in almost every home. But its value is not in the cost, but in the fact that you put your soul into such a gift, painstakingly creating a future tree with your own hands, grain by grain.

1. Actually, coffee beans are approximately 150-200 grams.
2. Thick cardboard or paper - A4 size sheet.
3. Glue (it is better to take transparent “Moment” and PVA).
4. Thick threads, such as jute twine.
5. Scissors.
6. A small pot for flowers.
7. Sackcloth.
8. Plasticine or plaster to fill the pot.
9. A wooden stick for the trunk of the future Christmas tree (for example, a pencil, a sushi stick or a skewer).
10. Cotton wool or newsprint.

In addition, you will need various decorations for the future Christmas tree. Here you can give free rein to your imagination, for example, make balls from shiny beads, snow from semolina or cotton wool, decorate the Christmas tree with braid, miniature snowflakes, or cover some of the grains with gold paint.

Gallery: Christmas tree made from coffee beans (25 photos)

Making a Christmas tree out of coffee with your own hands: job description

The first step is to prepare base, on which our Christmas tree will be held. We take a small flower pot (you can buy it at a regular flower shop) and wrap it in burlap, securing it with glue. We fill the pot with heavy contents (plaster or plasticine) so that the Christmas tree stands quite stable.

Now you can start making the Christmas tree itself. Cut out two circles from cardboard or thick paper. One large one, its diameter should be the same as the height of the crown we want to make for the tree. From this circle we roll and glue a cone. The second circle should be slightly wider than the base of the resulting cone, with allowances for gluing along the edges. You need to make allowances of about a centimeter and a half, make cuts in a circle and fold them over. You also need to make a small hole in the center of the base: a tree trunk will be inserted into it.

When the glued cone has dried, we trim its edges from the bottom so that they are as even as possible. Then the cone must be filled with contents so that it is light enough, but at the same time does not bend under the weight of the coffee beans glued to it. For this purpose, you can use cotton wool or cut and crumpled newspaper sheets. We also insert a stick into the middle of the cone - the future trunk.

By the way, the trunk does not have to be straight: you can make it from rolled wire and give it an interesting curved shape, only in this case the main thing is to make sure that the finished structure is stable.

Apply glue to the edges of the cone and the allowances on the small circle and glue the “bottom” of the future Christmas tree. Wait again for the glue to dry.

If you don’t want to cut and glue, you can buy it at a craft store foam cone, which can also become the basis for a Christmas tree.

Using glue, we attach a jute thread to the trunk of the tree and begin to carefully wrap it with threads - in one layer, but quite tightly. We do the same with the cone, having previously coated it with PVA glue so that the threads do not fall off. Why wrap a cone? The fact is that coffee beans have an oval shape, and no matter how tightly you glue them, there will still be small gaps between them in which the base will be visible. Jute thread will look much neater and more beautiful as a base than regular cardboard. In addition, if you glue the grains directly onto smooth cardboard, there is a risk that they will fall off.

The tree leg does not need to be wrapped completely: we leave part of it and insert the future tree into a pot with a base just up to the point where the thread wrapping begins. Now our tree is standing firmly, and we can start gluing it with grains.

We will stick the coffee beans onto the tree from the base and from the bottom up, in two layers. Apply a thin layer of glue to the base (here it is better to take transparent “Moment” so that it is not visible) and glue the grains onto the base with the flat side, in a checkerboard pattern. At the same time, it is important to arrange them so that there are as few gaps as possible between them - this way the Christmas tree will look more neat. Glue the second layer of grains outward with the flat side, so as to maximally close the gaps remaining in the first layer.

Available another option for gluing grains: Flat side up and at a slight angle. Then they will resemble real paws of a spruce tree, and our Christmas tree will not be so smooth, more like a living tree.

Decorating a Christmas tree from coffee beans with your own hands

Decorating a future Christmas tree is not limited by anything except your imagination! Can be used the following ideas:

Remember that each next stage of decoration must begin only after glue dried on the previous one so that nothing falls off during the process!

New Year is coming soon, and the main attribute of the New Year holidays is the forest beauty - the Christmas tree. But cutting down a living tree for the sake of a few holidays is at least inhumane.

Therefore, the tendency to replace live Christmas trees with artificial ones is now becoming very common. You can easily buy an artificial Christmas tree in any supermarket, but it is much more interesting to make a Christmas tree yourself from scrap materials.

There are quite a few options for making Christmas trees. A Christmas tree can be made from almost anything: paper, candy, feathers, pine cones, fabric, etc. And it is not at all necessary to be a professional designer in order to create your own unique, one and only Christmas tree. You just need to have the desire and a little imagination to use the materials available in the house that have been lying idle for a long time. In this MK I suggest that children and their parents make an unusual New Year tree from coffee beans.

To work we will need:
1. A sheet of thick cardboard A4;
2. Adhesive Moment is transparent;
3. PVA glue;
4. Scissors;
5. Thick threads;
6. Coffee beans approximately 150 grams;
7. Plasticine;
8. Small plastic flower pot;
9. Twine;
10. Small wooden twig;
11. Vata;
12. For decoration - mother-of-pearl beads; 1 small white ball - for the top;
13. Varnish – spray;
14. Foil;
15. Several newspapers or thin magazine leaves.
16. Brown gouache, brush.
17. Semolina – 2-3 teaspoons.

First, let's design a flowerpot in which our Christmas tree will be located.
We wrap a small piece of foil around the outside of it.


And inside, not reaching the top 1 cm, we tightly apply plasticine. Plasticine will give stability to the flowerpot and the Christmas tree will stand firmly and will not tip over.

Now let's get down to making the Christmas tree. We take thick cardboard, roll it into a cone, seal the edges well so that it does not unfold. As soon as the edges of the cone are dry, cut the bottom of the cone in a circle with scissors so that it becomes even.

We place the cone on a small piece of ordinary cardboard, trace it once strictly along the contour, and a second time draw a circle around it 1-1.5 cm larger than the circumference of the cone.

We cut out the resulting circle and cut it in several places to the 1-1.5 cm that we set aside. We bend the resulting segments.

After this, fill the cone with crumpled pieces of newspapers or magazine sheets. We insert a small twig into the cone and the middle of the cut out circle, which will serve as the trunk of the tree.

Glue the bottom of the tree to the cone.


Now we insert the Christmas tree into the prepared pot with plasticine.

To refine the “trunk” of our Christmas tree, you can wrap it with twine. We wrap the twine around a branch, which we first lubricate with PVA glue.

Well, finally, you can start gluing coffee beans onto a cardboard cone, but in order for the beans to stick better, you must first liberally apply PVA glue to the cone.

Then wrap it with thick threads, for example acrylic; as soon as the threads are dry, we begin gluing the grains onto the base of the tree.

We will glue the coffee beans in two layers, starting from bottom to top. For the first layer of grain, glue the flat side of the grain to the base, arrange them in a checkerboard pattern, trying to ensure that there are as few gaps between the grains as possible.

For the second layer, glue the grains with the flat side facing out. When creating the second layer, we glue the grains so as to close the existing gaps created the first time. When gluing coffee beans, I recommend using transparent Moment glue.

After all the grains are glued, you can start decorating the Christmas tree. It is best to decorate a coffee tree with white mother-of-pearl beads; they look bright and elegant against a dark brown background. We stick them on the Christmas tree with the same Moment glue.

We completely paint the cardboard bottom of the tree with brown gouache paint. You can also cover it with coffee beans, but that’s what you like.

Now take a spray varnish and lightly varnish the Christmas tree. Let me remind you that this needs to be done in a well-ventilated area! The varnish will give the coffee beans a varnish shine, and will also serve as an adhesive base for the semolina, which we will sprinkle on top of the Christmas tree immediately after varnishing.

On top of the pot in which our Christmas tree stands, we glue fluffy pieces of cotton wool to the plasticine with PVA glue; the cotton wool will act as white snow.

Don’t forget to glue a white fluffy ball to the top of the tree; if there is none, you can replace it with an original bow, a beautiful bead, etc.

All! The Christmas tree made from coffee beans is ready! We put it out on the balcony for a couple of hours so that the varnish dries well and its smell completely disappears.

This coffee tree will become a real decoration of the New Year's table and will create a festive fairy-tale atmosphere in any home. You can also give it to your closest relatives and friends, I guarantee that they will be satisfied with such a creative gift! Good luck to everyone and Happy New Year!

Irina Demchenko
Сhudesenka.ru