I know that the holidays are over, but the all the shipping delays caused me to get backed up on my holiday makes.
By the time everything arrived, I was in the throes of making last minute holiday cards. That’s okay though. So while Christmas has officially come down in the main part of the house (I’ve clung on to my mini tree in my craft room and my garland over my headboard), I can still enjoy creating holiday makes. Why wait until next year? It’s like getting a jump on the holidays for this year!
Ever since I received the window frames in my Halloween order, I knew I wanted to make a vignette for Christmas tree with them. Lately I’ve also been a bit obsessed with pastel and wanted to create something with an unconventional palette. In my craft room, my mini tree is rose gold—so I pulled out my pink sprays to create a pink tree for my window scene! For my tree, I used kitsch flamingo Distress Spray Stain and Distress Oxide Spray and the winterberry Mica Spray to color my tree. Before spraying it all up, I trimmed it down to fit in the box by snipping off the bottom and giving the tree a haircut in the back so it would lay flat in the box.
While my tree dried, I dry brushed white paint onto the insides, sides and back of my vignette box that fit the window frame I chose. I also cut out a piece of diagonal stripe pastel blue and white paper from P13’s Cosy Winter Sugar and Spice Maxi Pad as well as fussy cut a nutcracker from the same collection. I then glued the striped paper inside the box using Smart Glue.
After my tree dried, I added some Glossy Accents to it and covered it in Rock Candy Distress Glitter. I also added some Glossy Accents and glitter to the nutcracker and to a mini icicle. You can never have too much glitter at Christmas!
While the glitter was drying, I pulled out some mica tiles and ripped a couple of pieces to fit my window so that it would appear icy at the top and bottom. Before glueing it in place, I bent it gently to add fractures to the mica to make it look icy. I then added some icicle paste to the mica to give that extra icy oomph. Once the icicle past was dry, I added some snowfall paste.
I drilled a small hole in the back of my box and strung a set of tiny lights to through. I wrapped it around my tree and then snipped off the excess (I left a few extra lights on the end to add to the top of the box to light up the mini icicles a bit. I glued the nutcracker in place with Glossy Accents and then the tree in the box with heavy body gel. I also secured the end of the light string in place with a small dollop of heavy body gel. See the photo below for what the inside of the box looks like prior to placing the window frame on top.
I then added some baubles and a mirrored star to the tree using Glossy Accents. Now that everything inside the box was done, it was time to glue down the window frame and the mini icicles using Glossy Accents.
While my box was drying, I spritzed a piece of Mixed Media Heavystock with the same pink sprays as the tree. I sprayed both sides of the paper and dried it with my heat tool. To flatten it out, I ran it through my Minc machine (this is an optional step, but makes it easier to place your dies on the cardstock). I ran this inked paper through my die cut machine with the base layer of the Seasonal Sketch die three times.
I then cut the upper layer of the die from silver kraftstock twice. I used some shaping tools to shape the flower cuts and then glued the layers together in this order: two pink, a silver, a pink and a silver. I cut a little bit of crinkle ribbon, tied a bow, sewed on a tiny bell and glued it to the top of my box. I then added some pink lace, a snowflake charm hanging from silver thread and the pink poinsettia.
All that was left was to create a little box to hold the battery pack for the tiny lights. And that’s it! I hope you enjoyed this belated holiday make. Don’t be surprised if you see more holiday makes from me randomly throughout the year—both Halloween and Christmas! I bought a lot of stuff and had no time to use it all! Until next time, happy crafting!
Adrienne
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