Vintage Halloween Feather Tree Ornament…

Oct 16, 2009

I LOVE mak­ing these orna­ments. Ans­ley says they are freaky and cer­tainly not her most favorite project I have ever cre­ated but I am stand­ing strong when I say, “I love them, I really, really love them and I will make them for every holiday.”

If you would like to make one of these orna­ments here is how to do it. Using wire cut­ters, cut a piece from a green Che­nille Bump Stem so that you have two bumps on one piece (legs) and then either one or two bumps on a sec­ond piece (arms). I like to have two bumps for the arms so that I can curl the hands in to hold items. If I use one bump I find that the arms are too short. Next all you do is fold the bump stem for the legs in half so that the skinny part is at the top mid­dle, slip the sec­ond piece through the top and twist the arms around one or two times to secure them in place. To cre­ate the head print your vin­tage image onto heavy white card­stock, cut it out and attach it to the top of the bump stem using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive. Accent the post­card image using Dia­mond Stick­les. Using wire cut­ters cut one bump stem from a black Che­nille Bump Stem and wrap around the waist sec­tion of the orna­ment. Cre­ate a lit­tle ban­ner with the “Boo” sen­ti­ment and place it in the orna­ments hand, attach a hanger using black embroi­dery floss and there ya go. You have a lit­tle replica of a vin­tage feather tree ornament.

Hal­loween Greet­ing Vin­tage Postcard

Mate­ri­als Used: Green and Black Vintage/Retro Che­nille Bump Stems, Vin­tage Post­card Image, Dia­mond Stick­les, Blank Book Page Mar­gin, Sta­men (or tooth­pick, mine just mys­te­ri­ously dis­ap­peared) Col­or­Box Fluid Chalk Ink — Creamy Brown, Strong Liq­uid Adhe­sive, Wire Cut­ters, Black Embroi­dery Floss, Scissors