…And the 3rd part is here! Sorry about the length; I practiced the techniques in this tutorial a couple times before I recorded it, but a few unexpected problems came up (primarily the curve modifier issue). The next part of the tutorial series will cover the base of the tree and the ornaments (as well as the star on top, and a bit of compositing). Then there will be one final part that’s more of a bonus tutorial 
Final Result (for the sake of visual appeal, I applied some simple compositing techniques with this image; I’ll go over those in the next part):
