What’s everyone crafting this weekend? If you’re working on holiday crafts for your home, here’s a fun one to add to your list! We love these paper snowflake trees so much that we’ve already hung a few of them from the ceiling in our studio. But they’d also make great mantel décor.
Today we’re sharing the tutorial for these paper snowflake trees so you can craft them on your own. And thanks to our friends at PaperPapers, the pattern is FREE. Just scroll down for all the details.
Snow Much Fun!
If you ever made paper snowflakes as a kid, this is just as fun—but it’s definitely a more sophisticated project! Our designer Meagan made these paper snowflake trees using cardstock paper, but you could also craft yours from text weight paper. Whatever paper you use, we recommend using a cutting machine for this project. But of course you can always cut these by hand, too.
Once you’re done making your paper snowflake trees, you can use them as festive wintry décor. Some ideas of ours are—place them in 2.5″ pots and place them on your mantel, add faux snow and lights to create a soft, pretty winter scene, or use twine instead of wire and hang them up in your home. How would you decorate with them?
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Tools
- Cutting Machine (recommended) or Scissors
- Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Pliers/Wire Cutters
Materials
- PDF Pattern or SVG Cut Files
- PaperPapers Cardstock Paper — Stardream Metallic Coral, Mohawk Via Vellum Pine, and Keaykolour Steel
- Green Paper Covered Floral Wire — 18-Gauge
- Wooden Beads – 1/2”
- Twine
- Floral Foam
- Pot
How to Make Paper Snowflake Trees
- Gather your craft tools and materials. Then download your free DIY pattern on PaperPapers.com.
- Cut paper according to template notes using your scissors or a cutting machine.
- Slide a bead onto the wire about two inches from the tip; glue the bead into place.
- Then, slide the largest snowflake onto the wire so it sits on the first bead; add two more beads to the wire.
- Continue adding the snowflakes in order from large to small; place two beads between each snowflake.
- Place some foam in a pot and press the tree into the foam. You can cover the foam with moss or poly-fil. Or you can follow the same steps on a piece of twine and hang the trees instead of placing them in a pot.
Make More Holiday Décor
If you use these paper snowflake trees as mantel décor over the winter, we think our holiday felt letters would look really cute with them. You can also explore our site for more Christmas crafts. Or follow us on Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube for DIY ideas and video tutorials.
You can also join our crafting community! As a member of our crafting community, you can get access to more DIY designs, patterns, and tutorials. If you want to learn more about membership and all of its perk, head to our membership page. Enjoy! ~Lia and team
Are you having trouble? Feel free to contact us and we will be happy to help you out.
26 Comments
Would your beautiful frosted paper (used for the succulent projects) work on this or is it too thin?
That would work beautifully for these trees! That extra frost on the branches. . . oh yes!
Hi. I am trying to download the svg for the snowflake trees but it doesn’t give the complete pattern. It is only showing 2 1/2 snowflakes. How can I get the whole pattern?
That’s just the preview of the SVG. Once you upload it to Design Space, you’ll see the full pattern 🙂
Do you have the pattern for the svg file for the paper Christmas trees? It is not on your site.
Hi! Correct, the project was sponsored by Paper Papers so our post directs you to their site for the downloads. https://www.paperpapers.com/news/paper-holiday-trees/
The SVG file will not unzip.
Hi Teri! Can you email us at hello@liagriffith.com with more details? You may need to install Zip/Unzip software depending on your computer.
Do you have a downloadable pattern for a Silhouette. The PDF and SVG files don’t work.Thanks
Hi Shelley! You’ll need the Designer edition of Silhouette’s software in order to convert our SVG files to a .Studio file. (Or if you do a quick google search there are suggestions for other ways to do it without upgrading!)
How did you cut yours out?
Hi Marilyn,
We cut these snowflakes on a cricut cutting machine.
Love these! Cannot wait to pick up some wooden beads and make a few this weekend! Thank you.
Loved the look of these trees and I thought they’d be perfect for my mantel, so I got started. I do have questions, how much did you enlarge the pattern for the snowflakes? How did you keep the fabric on wire from raveling after putting on the beads and the snowflakes. Thanks for the help, and love your work.
Hi Ann,
The pattern is the size that we made our snowflakes! We did not have any problems with unraveling, you could wrap the end with a piece of tape to prevent unraveling.
Help, I can’t get my Cricut Explore one to up load the sgv file so I can cut the snowflakes.
Hi! Can you email us at hello@liagriffith.com with more details and a screenshot with the problem you’re having?
What paint did you use for the wooden balls? 🙂
We actually mixed a variety of acrylic paints we had in the studio to match the paper!
I am having trouble opening after downloading the paper snowflake cut file. I would love to make this with my grandson, but I cannot get the file. Please help.
Hi Dottie, can you email us at hello@liagriffith.com with more details about the trouble you’re having?
I was able to compete the project with no problem. Loved making them with my children. They love crafting.
So glad to hear it!!
Beautiful holiday trees, great project for my Cricut.
Thank you!
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