To dress up your paper tree, you can use a hole punch or shaped punch like a star pattern to add some designs to the paper. Add string lights to the tree for illumination but make sure to use LED ...

Smoothing down the copper traces with a guitar pick. Take this Christmas tree for example, which uses a 555 timer and a CB4017 decade counter in order to drive some blinking LEDs.

The Fundy Regional Service Commission is encouraging its residents to recycle wrapping paper for the first time, while a non-profit in Cap-Acadie is asking for used Christmas trees to restore dunes.