Noel…

Oct 29, 2009

And for you, SURPRISE another Christ­mas project. I have a feel­ing this year Old Fash­ioned Mica Snowflakes are going to be on every­thing! For the time being this lit­tle gem will sit in my curio cab­i­net until I can find it’s per­fect lit­tle hol­i­day spot.  I love how the light catches the glit­ter, tin­sel and mica snowflakes… it is so sparkly.

Tomor­row, I will share a lit­tle project that will make the cutest hol­i­day swap gift.

Instruc­tions:

• First pull out the cord hanger on the orna­ment as you will not need it.
• Paint a cube shaped paper mache orna­ment using a Manila col­ored acrylic paint. Once dry ink lightly the edges using Col­or­Box Fluid Chalk Ink in Creamy Brown.
• While the orna­ment is dry­ing bleach three dif­fer­ent sized Bot­tle Brush trees (4.5″, 3.5″, 2.5″) I mix 2 parts water to 1 part bleach and let them just sit until com­pletely bleached, then rinse them off well and let dry

• Paint the chip­board let­ters (N, O, E, L) using gold paint, once dry apply crack­ling medium, once dry apply Manila paint, let dry. Lightly apply Col­or­Box Fluid Chalk Ink in Creamy Brown over the let­ters. Cover each let­ter using Instant Decoupage and gen­er­ously apply coarse glit­ter, tap off excess, let dry
• Accent the edges of each let­ter using Golden Rod Stick­les, let dry.
• Cute 6 squares of Vin­tage Sheet Music to cover each side of the orna­ment and attach using a glue stick type adhesive
• Using a hot glue gun attach a Vin­tage Gold Tin­sel along the top and bot­tom edge of the orna­ment, trim off excess using wire cutters.
• Attach a let­ter to each side of the orna­ment using a strong adhe­sive. Next apply holly leaves and gold mer­cury glass beads in the lower right sec­tion of each letter
• Paint 4 small wooden spools or beads gold, once dry attach to each cor­ner on the bot­tom of the orna­ment using a strong adhesive
• Now that the trees are dry lightly apply gold paint onto the tips of the bris­tles of each tree… I use a paint dab­ber for this. Apply liq­uid adhe­sive onto the trees and apply Old Fash­ioned Mica Snowflakes over each tree, tap off excess, let dry
• Using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive attach the trees to the top of the orna­ment. Cre­ate one bow each out of red, green and white seam bind­ing and attach to each tree

• Draw three stars onto chip­board mak­ing sure they are small, medium and large, cut them out, paint them gold and glit­ter them using Fine Gold Ger­man Glass Glit­ter, let dry
• Attach the stars to the top of each tree

Sup­plies Used: Cube Shaped Paper Mache Orna­ment, Vin­tage Sheet Music, Maya Road Philadel­phia Upper­case Chip­board Alpha­bet, Vin­tage Gold Tin­sel, Holly Leaves, Gold Mer­cury Glass Beads, Bot­tle Brush Trees, Mak­ing Mem­o­ries Acrylic Paint Manila, Gold Adiron­dack Metallics Acrylic Paint Dab­ber, DecoArt Weath­ered Wood Crack­ling Medium, Col­or­Box Fluid Chalk Ink Creamy Brown, Old Fash­ioned Mica Snowflakes, Martha Stew­art Crys­tal Coarse Glit­ter, Fine Gold Ger­man Glass Glit­ter (also love their Fine Sil­ver Ger­man Glass Glit­ter), Aleene’s Paper Glaze, Golden Rod Stick­les, Red, Green, White Seam Bind­ing, Small Wooden Spools, Matte Col­lage Pauge Instant Decoupage

I sure wish Santa would send some elves my way to clean up my scrap­room. I have glit­ter, tin­sel and scraps all over the place. You would think since I know him first hand I would have a lit­tle more pull but nope… looks like I will be clean­ing this mess up all by myself.