Sunday, December 18, 2016

Shabby vintage tree

Hello!  Yes, it's me... I know you can't tell with the shabby tree, especially after the Zombie Santa post of yesterday!  Enjoy yourself as you experience my softer side :)...







Supplies and notes:

  • The base of this tree is the cone from an old spool of yarn, probably about 8" tall.  First, I roughly painted it with white Liquitex gesso, then rubbed some Prima powder in Ivory on it.  Then I painted some conifer branches using Frosty Forest Green Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals (New!  These are my latest supply!).  After that dried, I rubbed it all with DecoArt Metallic Lustre in Gold Rush... I love using that stuff.  I always end up singing, "Goldfinger... he's the man... the man with the Midas touchhhhh...."
  • Next, I added stuff from my latest Funkie Junkie Boutique purchase bonus bag... it included flat-sided pearls, singing cherubs, shabby seam binding dipped in gold (Tarnished Brass Distress Spray, Linda?), and some wings cut from crinoline.  I glued the pearls all over with Glossy Accents.  I cut the cherubs out and edged them with Brushed Corduroy DI and then added Crackle Accents.  The wings were glued to the tree and rubbed with more DecoArt Metallic Lustre.  I finally added the cherub panel.  
  • The cherubs were lonely, so I placed them among some white roses, initially sprayed with gold Perfect Pearls, but I need a new bottle... it was just sputtering... so I rubbed them with more DecoArt Metallic Lustre.  I placed them on top of some Wilton glittery stamen.
  • The ribbon from Funkie Junkie was wrapped around the tree.
  • All kinds of spare Mini Seasonal Greens (cut from Metallic Kraft-Core and old sheet music) was added, along with a little "dusting" of Aleene's snow
  • The star at the top is a Recollections wood cut, coated with white Liquitex gesso and sprinkled with Martha's unmatchable glitter.
  • There are also some Crate Paper wood veneer birds, coated with Glossy Accents and covered with Distress Glitter in Antique Linen
I started this project on Friday afternoon, and was done with it Saturday... that's pretty good turn-around for me these days!  And I haven't done much shabby work lately-- it was fun to use a different part of my craft-brain!


I plan to share this at the following challenges:

7 comments:

  1. This is so so cool! What fun that the bonus bag was such an inspiration to you and led to this amazing creation! Love it! Christmas hugs, Autumn

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  2. so lovely - such a great Christmas decoration - thanks for joining us at the HLS Mixed Media Challenge

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  3. Oh myyyy
    I never made similar like this Mimi
    stunningggg
    woowww so many element
    and I guess it need more than one hour to finished??
    Great project Mimi
    do you send this or use at your home
    lovely made my friend

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  4. beautiful - thanks for joining us at Happy Little Stampers

    Barb Housner (DT)

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  5. I like your soft-side other part of your brain creation very much! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you the very best in 2017.

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  6. Aw, this piece sure looks amazing! Noticed those fabric like angel wings, very pretty, great touch! Well done!

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  7. Love your shabby side, Mimi and how you've used your goodie bag goodies from Linda--mine are stashed for next Christmas!

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