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I always feel crafty around Christmastime....
I convinced K-Rae to help me make some of these Christmas tree villages for gifts...
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| First, I masking taped all of the edges of the trays (painters tape would probably be easier to remove...we didn't have any on hand). As you can see...this part of the process wasn't overly exciting to K-Rae as she mostly had to watch! | | | |
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| Painting with glossy Modge Podge was much more fun for K-Rae than watching Mom tape! |
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| The glittery Buffalo Snow Flakes really intrigued her (and are still all over our house)! |
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| After the tray was well covered with flakes, we let it dry completely for a few hours, dusted off loose flakes and then painted/glopped as smoothly as possible Modge Podge over the flakes again and let the tray dry completely overnight. Once it was completely dry, I carefully removed the tape. |
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| In the meantime, K-Rae helped trace and cut the trees from various pieces of Christmas themed scrapbook paper. Tracing and cutting the first couple of trees was fun for her, after that, I had to bribe her with one piece of candy for each tree.....it worked! I folded, glued, and painted Modge Podge over the trees. We called ourselves "Team Christmas Tree!" | | | | | |
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| This is how our dining room looked for several days while creating these! Yes, I'll be honest it was quite the mess in the process! |
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| Little Miss Mae joined in for the final product assembling. I hot glued the trees to the tray and the embellishments (small ornaments, gifts, angels, starts, etc.) where the girls indicated. In the end, three beautiful gifts. |
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(you will probably have to sign up as a "member" to access site; it's free and I really haven't received any junk email yet from them) and then scroll down through the various directions for projects until instruction number 5, where is says "get the cone patterns." Download the patterns with Adobe Reader; there are three pages of patterns, the third page is the tree pattern and we adjusted the the size to make three sizes of trees for our project.
These projects cost us around $12 each to make....the trays were $5 each, so you could cut the cost there quite a bit by using a cheaper tray. Supply list to buy would include:Tray, masking/painters tape, 5 pieces of assorted scrapbook paper, miniature Christmas ornaments, embellishments for trees (stars, angels, sticky jewels, etc.), miniature gifts (I found ours at Pier One Imports a couple of years ago and we've used them for various projects since then), Buffalo glitter snow, glossy Modge Podge, sponge brush for painting.
Happy Christmas Crafting!
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