OMG… last one - Holiday and Winter Decor Tree

 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 4…. Finally! I’m exhausted just writing this up..let alone fussing for hours and hours on these dang trees 😳🤨🤣  (See last 3 blogs for other trees).

So… more Stamperia paper… love that brand! See the deer in the background paper… decided to make this on a whole deer scene! I used a Stampendous swirl stamp + silver embossing powder on the paper. I added white spatters all over and a silver pen to the edge. I used the same Poppystamp birch tree die and another birch tree die I picked up in a craft mag on Kraft and white papers. I added paper strips and ribbon at the bottom and silver sticky strips on the base. I used an Impression Obsession deer die on Kraft paper. I added shading to the deer with pencils and pens. I fussy cut out the birds and squirrels. To complete this side, I silver embossed the Unity sentiment and added more swirls on coordinating card stock. I used a random frame I had and added silver thread behind it. Finally, I added a small sentiment strip at the bottom and called this one done!

So, I used Stamperia’s Patchwork Christmas collection on this one! First after cutting out the tree background paper, I decoupaged the rice paper building scene into it. I ended up embellishing the scene a bit by brightening up sone of the colors with pencils. I used the Stamperia stencil again and Altenew white paste to add snow effects. I also used a Posca pen on it. I added chipboard elements from the collection and fussy cut out a second tree. At the bottom, above the Noel is a strip of Washi tape that helped define the base. This might be my fav Christmas tree!

Okay, now - I can rest a bit! Let me know what you think of these trees… which is your fav and what do u  think of the whole concept? Thanks for stopping by… hope you can put your crafty hat on for the holidays!

PS I do have 1 more tree to do in a different size… hmmm… we’ll see if I get to it this year!