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hi and welcome to christines crafts.com
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today I'm going to show you how to make
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a folded book Christmas tree really
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simple but really effective all you need
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is an old paperback so this is one I've
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made and as you can see I've glued a
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star on the top just to finish it off
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really super simple that's half a
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paperback book you're looking at there
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folded so get yourself a paperback book
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doesn't matter how big doesn't matter
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how long the book is you'll see this
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one's quite thick it's about 300 pages
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so it's a little bit thick for making
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the Christmas tree but it does have a
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proper spine all the pages are glued
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into the spine and that's what you're
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looking for so that they stay attached
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even when we take it to Pieces so I'm
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going to divide my book in two and I can
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get two trees out of it if I want to
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perhaps put one on the either end of a
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mantle piece either end of a long table
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whatever you fancy so I've got a craft
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knife and I'm just going to cut it in
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half now you'll see me struggle with
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this this craft knife we seen a lot of
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action it's been involved in making a
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lot of small plastic figurines which I'm
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sure some of you know a lot about when
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my boys were younger but I'll get there
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and I'll get it cut in half because it's
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purely half a book I'm going to use it's
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Pages by that I mean 150 sides just to
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okay so if I ever get this to two there
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we go I'll just get rid of one half for
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now so then we're left with the front
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half of the book and I don't want the
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cover on it so the first Sheet's pretty
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boring so I'm going to cut that off as
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well it's your choice you can cut and
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remove as many pages as you like so long
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as you've still got plenty to form your
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tree I'm just going to cut it off
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and then I'll be left purely with Pages
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glued together as you can see that's cut
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as well as it did when I was going down
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the middle but it's going to come
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straight off so let's not worry you can
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see on that spine the way they're still
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glued together and that's really
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important so I'm just going to check
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yeah nice and tightly fastened so now
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folding going to take the top
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Corner Bend it down to the spine getting
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a nice sharp point at the top and making
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sure it lines up perfectly with that
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spine nice crisp fold always make sure
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each fold is nice and crisp now where
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we've folded it there I'm going to bring
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that across again to the spine it's
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worth taking the time to make sure you
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get it properly across and a nice crisp
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edge and a sharp point at the
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top you can see the Christmas tree shape
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coming but we still got a bit at the
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bottom so what we're going to do is fold
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that up and tuck it in so that the
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folded page lines up with the bottom of
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book and there you've got your first bit
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of tree already formed so fold that page
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over there to the other side you can see
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I'm just making sure those folds are
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crisp and then I'm going to do another
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page to show you that all over
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again so we take the top corner
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spine make sure you get a good point at
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the top and make sure it lines up
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perfectly with the spine it's easy at
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the moment but it gets harder as you go
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book take that edge and fold it over to
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the spine again still keeping that sharp
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fold and then tuck the bottom up make
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sure it lines up with the bottom of your
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book don't worry if you fold it and it's
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not quite right you see oh that's not
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one's right let's just fold it again
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there we go so that's two pages push
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them over to that side and keep
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going I'm going to show you a few more
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pages but I've sped it up so it doesn't
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get too boring so we're just going to go
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through a few more and you can start to
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see how it builds up you just keep going
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and you'll start to get more and more on
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the left hand side until it becomes
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unmanageable so I'm going to show you
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what happens when you come into the end
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so here I've done all the pages but the
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last two and you can see it's getting
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tricky you still got to make sure you
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get that point and that you get your
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corner down right to the spine so I'm
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just showing you these last two pages to
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show you how tricky it really is don't
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worry if you're finding it difficult it
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is tricky still got to get that nice
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crisp Edge and fold the bottom up
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nicely and then you're going to get to
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down nice point you can see I was making
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sure I got the point first because
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that's the trickiest bit there and then
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spine you can see me struggling away
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with this it's not easy lifted it up so
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you can see I'm still making sure I get
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spine fold the bottom
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up and hey Presto we're all
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finished so now when you stem that up
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you pull those two pages together so
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that it forms a tree all the way around
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so the pages spread out a little bit you
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can see I can put it down flat again at
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the moment and then I can stand it back
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together and that's it your Christmas
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so as I said earlier I just stuck a star
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on the top of mine that I made out of
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another page of the book and I'm
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finished you could spray paint it gold
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if you fancied or silver or whatever to
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match your Decor if you click on the
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video that's showing now you can go over
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to another video that shows you how to
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make the star to go on the top so thank
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you for watching I hope you've enjoyed
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it and I hope you're going to make your
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own uh folded book Christmas trees so
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please take the time to give me a thumbs
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up show me some support perhaps leave me
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a comment and subscribe below thanks bye
