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 2 (I’ll be posting 4 blogs, one for each tree).
I used Stamperia paper again on this one. I ended up fussy cutting a bird out. I used a Stamperia stencil to add glistening snow effects plus spatter and distressed the paper edges. I actually used a couple stamps on this one for branches and the deer in the bottom left side that I added shadows to (in my compulsory fashion). To create the foliage, I used a hodge podge of
- textured paper leaves that I gilded
- a watercolored Poppystamp leaf/branch image at the top
- die cut coffee stained paper leaves and sprigs
- and finally, fussy cut acorns and leaves.
I used a Poppystamps Birch Tree die and shaded the image. I added Mica snow effects using around using an acrylic gel. Finally, I added the Simon Says die cut Winter sentiment made with sparkly paper. I think this is my fav winter scene.
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