Christmas cone tree using border cut

This week on the Cricut Circle Blog the challenge was to make a project using a border cut.  Right away I knew what I wanted to make for the challenge.    I have seen cute little trees like this and thought I would try to make one using my Cricut. I hunted through the border cuts and decided to use a  scalloped border from Holiday cakes. 

I had a cone from Michaels.  

I glued a strip around the bottom to make sure the edges were covered.  I used a glue gun.  

  I cut full page sheets of  the border from different papers. The paper I used was double sided so I had a variety of choices to layer.   

At first I tried v cuts and curved scalloped edges up.  

Then I switched to cutting slits on opposite edge and that worked the best.  

This aids when gluing as you can overlap as your gluing around the curved cone.  

At first I started with 5.75  long borders.  As I progressed it worked to cut pieces.  So by the time I got to the top I was gluing two scallop long pieces  at a time.  

To finish the top I folded over one scallop from the border and made a pocket to glue on top.  

Here it is.  

I added gems with Tacky Glue.  

Art Philosophy star cut  at  3 inches.  Fold each star  in the  middle, ink and glue to make dimensional star. 

This paper was gold on one side and kraft paper on other side.  I ended up using the kraft paper side as I liked  the look the best.