Holiday and Winter Decor - Tree 1

 So, I started something last year when crafting with one of my close besties that visited me from my NY home town across the country! We made Fall/Halloween decor pieces using unfinished wooden pumpkins. Since they were freestanding you just turn them around for the side you want to decorate with. 

I sent my creation home with her to my other bestie. I did love how it turned out. Well, my other friend requested I make something similar with a Christmas/Winter theme for her neighbor. Welp… that started a whole other crafting frenzy pulling out ephemera, chipboards, papers, pastes, fussy cutting scissors, sprinkles, etc… I went to Michael’s and picked up free standing 7.25” by 1” wooden trees. It’s taken me over a week to pull them all together (I decided I was having so much fun, I ended up creating 4 of them)! Now, with sore fingers (from hot glue gun burns and a lot of cutting, stamping, embossing, stenciling, watercoloring… action), I present my latest crafting efforts!

So, this is Tree 1 (I’ll be posting 4 blogs, one for each tree).

This side is supposed to be the “winter” side. The papers and patterned ephemera are a combo of Stamperia chipboard pieces and Ciao Bella papers. What can I say..they went together well! I created 2 layers of the papers and distressed the edges. With all of the trees, to cut down the papers, I just traced around the wooden trees. I added a few plain chipboards… the darker ones have glitter embossing powder on them. I stenciled on some paste for snow and added glistening glitter to the paste. I also used an embossing pen and added glistening embossing powder over the snowy edges of the scenes. To finish off, I added pearls, lace and an icy sentiment! 

For the Christmas side, I pulled out an old Graphic 45 paper pad. I used the darker papers for the tree base and behind embellished chipboard frame. I ended up embellishing both of those with sparkly gold sticky strips. paired the papers. After cutting the base paper, I used a Sizzix poinsettia die on the bottom corner. I decided I wanted to add a bird on the center as the paper has a bird in it. I took a plain chipboard bird and used my Gansai Tambi opaque watercolors to color the chipboard. I added a sparkly pen to create the look of feathers. I die cut out gold glitter leaves and sprigs that I later used gold paste on. I added color and gilding to the bird frame. To complete the top, I added enamel dots, gold string and a Memory Box Joy die cut sentiment. For the bottom, I used the Paper Rose poinsettia die set. To complete this side, I added a ton of crystals and a black embossed sentiment strip.

To complete all the trees, I glue gunned the sides with ribbons or burlap! So, the final look of this one is here!

Now, onto the next tree post!