Holiday and Winter Decor - Tree 3

 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 3 (I’ll be posting 4 blogs, one for each tree).

The winter side was made with a pretty Simple Stories vintage winter collection (papers and ephemera). After cutting out the tree background, I used a glistening white/pink embossing powder on the edges. I then added a metallic pen to the letters and added a light metallic pink Prima watercolor over the letters and a pencil for shadowing to make the sentiment stand out. I used the same one on the ephemera at the top. I layered a bunch of the ephemera, and added them… some on foam tape. I also added die cut pine sprigs. To complete this one, I added color and clear heat embossed a chipboard snowflake and a coordinating ribbon and called it done.

The Christmas side of this tree was primarily made using a Ciao Bella collection with fussy cut elements out of it. I cut the cup and coffee pot image apart and layered them. I also used some Studio Light ephemera at the top. I did “borrow” a coordinating floral chipboard from another vendor. For further embellishments, I used a gingerbread chipboard that I gold embossed and a Dec 25 chipboard that I added gold metallic pen to. I used a Unity sentiment that I white embossed onto the chalkboard looking heart from the paper collection and backed that with a diecut gold heart. I found a berries looking chipboard that I used opaque Gansai Tambi watercolors on to embellish the berries on the heart. Finally, to complete this one, I added red and white striped twine and gold, sticky strips at the bottom of the tree.

That’s it for the third one, and now, finally on to the next and last tree post!