45+ Rustic Country Christmas DIYS 🎄🎅🏼\\ MEGA video of my FAVORITE Christmas Crafts

hey friends welcome to today's video i am so excited to share my favorite christmas crafts with you now guys i have pulled together a mega video for you if you're new here my name is tracy i love to share crafty ideas with a bit of rust to country charm just like today's projects all right guys let's go ahead and get started now i do want to mention that the time stamps are listed in the description box below [Music] these little paintbrushes from the dollar tree and some caulk i use those to create some santa ornaments now these are something that i did for years that i sold at craft shows and i wanted to share them here with my community just to show how you can take ordinary tools and create cute little christmas ornaments out of them the handles have a shine on them and i want to take that off because i'm going to paint the handles so i'm going to use my little hand sandpaper and i'm just going to sand that gloss off of these handles here's a craft tip for you i use a cheese cloth or a tack cloth it is a little tacky and i run that over my wood pieces to get all of those little sanding particles dust those type of things off of my project before i paint it [Music] [Music] working on santa's beard i use the all-purpose caulk and i got that in like the mechanics section of the dollar tree but you can get it in at walmart in other places cough does dry out so work quickly so i just do little dabs and work quickly with my little thing i'm showing you here because i just grabbed some ribbon rolls and i cut it i'm going to use that for a holder to so that i can paint my santa's beard all the way around so that it can dry because it takes all day or like if i do it at night it takes overnight for it to completely dry the caulk will dry out so make sure you keep your cap on your caulking and also don't put a whole lot if you're going to do it like i did on a little plate and put little dabs as you need it because you'll kind of see i'm just using a stick here and you will see once you're you're kind of spreading it on i just kind of dab it on and spread it almost kind of like you're frosting a cake kind of thing and you will kind of tell when it's like okay i need to hurry up so just a little crafting tip for you [Music] so [Music] okay my beards are completely dry and i'm going to make him a rustic our country santa and i do that by just taking some brown paint uh putting a little dab of that on my plate and then i water the paint down so it's really really thin and then i'm just going to take my paint brush and just dab it and just kind of go all the way around the beard just kind of hitting the spots and taking a paper towel wiping off a lot of it because i don't want the beer to be brown but i want it to be distressed or get the you know hints of the brown so it makes it more of a rustic santa [Music] [Music] i will go over the entire face with the brown paint as well just doing some shading and highlighting santa's features for the eyes i will most always use a black sharpie marker and i just do draw two little ovals just right under the little eyebrows so that's why it's good to put the eyebrows on first so then i kind of know where i want to put my eyes for the little character faces that i like to do [Music] i also like to give all of my little faces just two little eyelashes on the very bottom of their eyes i just love that's just kind of my way to do faces and so i'm just using a thin paint brush to do that [Music] for santa's nose i use the little knobs or the little plugs that their little wood turnings you can buy them unfinished in the at the craft store and i just paint the little nose a coral color or a rose color and depending on the size of my face will depend on the size of nose that i'm going to give my little santa the large santa is using a 3 8 inch little knob and the small santa is is using a 1 4 inch knob i also like to give all of my little faces some rosy red cheeks and i use a flat paint brush and some coral paint by doing that i like to do that before i put the wood nose on but for some reason i got ahead of myself and glued those noses on there but it was not a big deal i just took my flat paintbrush and just made some cheeks for the little santas now to enhance the eyes a little bit more i am just going to use a very very thin paint brush that i have and i'm just going to take my paint brush with some white paint and just kind of enhance those eyes just a little bit so it just gives santa just a little bit more character [Music] [Music] i like to give my santas a cute fluffy little beard and i use this yarn to do that to create his beard i just make some loops with the yarn just wrapping it around my fingers i usually use two fingers and wrap it around three to four times for the small paintbrush four to five four or five for the large paint brush i will wrap it around and then i will cut a piece of the yarn and i will tie it in the center and then once i have it tied in the center i will use my scissors and then i will cut those loops and then that what is what gives it the fluffiness um i'm using my tim holtz um scissors but i'm like what is wrong with you you need to use your cutter bees and so on the second one i am you know i've come to my census and i'm using my cutter bees because you want a short little sharp scissor so you can get in between those loops and you can make those little fluffs and puffs now for the fun part we're going to just embellish our santa and i'm just using some little miniature candy canes some greenery some berries and some cute little jingle bells [Music] [Music] okay now i'm going to make the ornament hanger i'm using some jute that i did pick up from the dollar tree as well and this homespun fabric helmsman is fabric that you can see on both sides and it's perfect for country decorating such as these adorable little santas so um i just have a little strip of homespun i tear it because it gives a ragged edge and love that in my decorating so i'm just cutting a piece of the home sponge and i'm just gonna i put it through the little hole and just tied it one time and then i'm going to get my jute and i'm going to kind of tie it on top of that homespun so that it all kind of ties in together so just slipping that do through that hole i'm going to um thread my jingle bell on there my intention was to put two jingle bells on the large one and one on the small one but i had already had it tied and before i realized that oh i was gonna put two jingle bells on the big one and one on the small one but it is what it is so i didn't want to have to undo it so you know it's your choice if you want to just do one jingle bell or two jingle bells [Music] [Music] [Music] i found these plastic candy canes over at the dollar tree and they're just really cute size to decorate for this type of country craft and so i just take pieces strips of homespun homespun fabric is fabric that is you can see on both sides and it's used in country decorating and country things and so i just have like a half of an inch of blue homespun fabric and i just glued the edge of the candy cane just with hot glue and then i'm just going to fold it over on itself so that it kind of wraps around the actual candy cane and then i just proceed and just wrap all the way around until i get to the top and then i just secure it with some hot glue as well [Music] once you finish wrapping the home spun fabric all the way around just take some scissors and just trim off where you want and just hot glue that down together you can use your scissors to trim off any of the extra little tails that you may have or little strings that you don't want on your actual candy cane now i have a piece of craft colored cardstock that i'm going to be creating the little bitty tags just hand wrote those tags and i'm going to be using a punch a punch that i got at the craft store if you don't have this particular punch you may can find one using your cricut cartridge or if you have a design space on the cricut cricut explorer you can find some different kind of tags okay i have this little christmas tree stamp it says 2001 stampin ups i'm not quite sure if it's still around and i'm going to be stamping on a mouse pad i like to do this when i stamp because it leaves a better impression and i'm going to be using some green memento ink just taking the little christmas tree stamp and i'm going to just stamp it in the corner of each of the tags so that it really ties in that christmas feel for this entire little project i took an ultra fine black sharpie marker and i made some dash lines or stitch lines all the way around each of the little tags and then i'm going to hand write merry christmas on the tag and i will doodle it up by putting the little dots on each of the letters and then after i finish that i'm going to get some brown ink and ink around the edges of the tag so that it gives it kind of an antique or age old little look and then to make it even more um i will take it and i will crumble it up and just kind of bend it back and forth just kind of crumble it up and then i'll take the little ink pad and i'll just go around the actual tag so that it gives it a really aged little look [Music] [Music] these merry christmas candy canes were so fun to put together now these are some of the supplies i'm using i decided not to use the white fleece i liked the black and white candy canes the best and so the candy canes are plastic candy canes from the dollar tree and i just have some ribbon this buffalo black and white buffalo check ribbon and i how i do my candy canes i just wrap um the ribbon you know i just usually start at the at the bottom and just kind of curl the ribbon on top uh you know over each other and hot glue it so it stays and sometimes i will like put a dot of hot glue as i'm going along so that the ribbon or the fabric will stay in place and these are so fun i have made some others for christmas my homespun candy canes as well as some maybe for halloween i did some boo sticks and so candy canes are just not just for christmas you can make them for other holidays as well i think i've done some liberty sticks also for uh fourth of july um and maybe some for the spring and so that is always an option just for i love these in my primitive country home with my primitive country decor the fat quarters i found this fabric at walmart and i just um you take my scissors and i just cut about one inch strips and then i just rip it rip the fabric so it gives a ragged jagged edge and then i'm doing it the same way that i did with the ribbon i just turn it over on itself and i'll hot glue uh every now and then to kind of you know have it stay in place and then i'll just continue wrapping it around until i get to the end now i did three different patterns i have the buffalo check i have the larger swiss dots that's what i kind of call them polka dot and then i have the mini uh swiss dots or polka dots that i'm going to put in my little jar for my little christmas decoration [Music] [Music] to make a tag for my jar and i just have these um like manila tags i know you can get them like at office supply stores or amazon i have no idea where i got these from i bought a whole bunch of them many years ago and i just um you know distressed them a little bit and so i like to use them for little projects like this and so i'm just taking that large uh posca pen and just hand lettering merry christmas i'll put my happy dots on the ends and uh you know so it looks really cute and then i'm gonna go back with the one um the pc 1m and i just go around and just add a little bit of doodling to it and then i'm going to show you how i distress it a little bit more with my ink and crumble it up or fold it so it looks kind of aged [Music] for this project i'm using this nativity decor piece that i got from hobby lobby i'm also using some other supplies my base of my project is an 11 by 14 inch canvas and i am going to just use some milk chocolate acrylic paint and i am just going to paint the whole thing inside and around the outside with two coats of this paint [Music] i'll go around the entire canvas with my stiff stencil brush and a wooden stick and some buttermilk paint and just splatter paint the entire canvas i'll also go around the front of the edges now for the nativity decor i'm just giving it a coat of black paint and just acrylic paint nothing you know no fancy paint or anything and i'm just taking a paint brush and just going around the top because the edges are like lasered and they're already brown so i don't need to waste my time with that so i am just giving um this thing i just want like it to look like a silhouette and i'm leaving the part where the star is because i plan to paint that gold for my star i wanted to add some gold paint but this puffy paint in gold was the only thing i had on hand and so it is a bit translucent uh you can kind of see through it but that's okay i gave it a couple of coats of that well then i discovered that since it's translucent you can see through it and so i decided to go over the nativity decor uh over that black and just give it a bit of glitter uh to it i know there are a lot of my friends and family that uh gasp at glitter but glitter doesn't bother me too much and this doesn't flake off or anything but i think it looks really pretty for my oh holy night sign i'm using just this wooden plaque i get it in a set from the craft store i'm just giving it a coat of buttermilk paint and then with my black paint in my brush i am just going to give it a border i paint the sides first and then i just go around and kind of just free handing it because i don't want it to be all straight and then i'm gonna go back and hand letter oh holy night before i hand letter i took that gold puffy paint which is translucent and i went over the border um once i finish the entire sign i will go back over it but i was kind of doing things in stages i wasn't sure that it did you know this puffy paint is translucent and you kind of went over it and you know it it it gave it a really nice pretty effect which i really like anyway so then now i'm just i'm taking some brown that milk chocolate paint and i'm just doing some shading where the buttermilk paint meets the black and just you know with a flat paintbrush i just dip half of my brush and paint the other half in clean water and that's how i shade my signs uh so then now what i'm doing is i have a posca pen it is a pc-5m it is a um kind of like a paint pen and i'm just hand lettering oh holy night um and you know if you've been following me for a while you know i love my happy dots on the ends of my letters and so that's what i've decided to do here and so as i was going along i was doing my dots and i was like something it something just doesn't feel right and so there was just like a little piece of i don't know paint or something um that was hindering me making my sweet little happy dots and so once i was able to you know clean that off i was able to go back and make my dots the size that i wanted them to so anyway you know no matter how long i've been doing this obstacles always you know stand in my way or um you know things happen [Music] i also put a layer of the puffy paint and gold over my sign because it's like i said it's translucent and it just makes everything sweet and starry for my canvas i'm using these uh two pieces of scrapbook paper both of them came from hobby lobby and um i'm just trying to figure out i want my of course my nativity to be the focal part uh focal point of it and so i'm just trying to figure out how i want my night sky to be so i end up turning over the paper and then just taping them together and then i'm really just going to kind of piece them in inside the canvas the canvas has that wooden frame and so um there's like a gap in between and so that i can slip my paper in there it's just kind of trying to figure out how i want my paper to go um you know i didn't want it you know just to get the night stick the night sky um kind of the way that i wanted it so i had to uh trim off a little bit of the paper and finagle with it a little bit [Music] i'm going to put my trim around the canvas and i have two trims that i'm using this one right here came from hobby lobby and i'm going to put that one on first just hot gluing it on the second uh trim came from the dollar tree and i just like i said hot glue everything on and until it's all secure [Music] just adding some fine excelsior to the bottom of my canvas before i put on my nativity silhouette uh decor piece i just think the excelsior adds a hay effect and also a bit of whimsy also using some of that puffy paint a gold uh translucent paint i'm just going over the scrapbook paper just to give it you know some enhancement and some sparkle to it for dimension i'm using some of these tumbling tower blocks or jingle blocks i just painted them black so they would blend in with my nativity decor and so then i'm just hot gluing the blocks to the back of the nativity decor um i've already figured out where i you know make sure that they that i need them placed and then i'll hot glue that to the frame and so um like i said i've already kind of figured out where i needed them to be glued to the nativity decor so that i wouldn't get it too low or you know sticking out or that kind of thing and so then um for the oh holy night sign i thought that i was going to uh do dimension blocks as well and but i decided to just glue that you know put some hot glue at the top and then just glue it straight to the top of that frame for a hanger i'm going to use some of these wooden beads now i am not i'm going to get questions about those that black and brown strand i got from walmart in the christmas section and the other two came from hobby lobby one from the fall section and then the other is from the christmas shop and so i just took off um some of the black and the brown and then i just have that uh the the larger one which is from the fall garland from hobby lobby and so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna use two black one two brown and then the larger one i'm going to put in the middle i'm using some wire [Music] do to attach the wire beads to my frame i just used my electric staple gun and i just stapled the wire to the frame and then i actually did it a couple of times and to cover those staples up i'm using these buttons now i had these buttons on hand and so then they're kind of they were like in a pack and they're just you know you can't get old buttons anywhere uh anyway but these had the little uh like buttonhole or button loop on the back and so i just took my wire cutters and just cut that off and then that hides uh those staples up very nicely i just hot glued a couple of sticks of the branches as well as the greenery to my little nativity i just kind of played with it a little bit just to figure out exactly how much and where i wanted it to stick out of and then i'm going to make a little junk bow i just had this ribbon left and so i said i'll make a little bow to add to the top so i have um just some of that buffalo black and white buffalo check and then some of the lace trims everything i used on this decor and then i have some i like to use this jewelry cording and i make a bows out of it and add that to my junk bow or messy bow or refab bow whatever you want to call it this is a cute little bow to make to add to your creations [Music] now i'm using some of these things from the dollar tree as well as some other places i will kind of let you know where all of the supplies came from as i get to it um i'm going to start with this little christmas box now um my son and my grandson had given me my gift in this box and i said oh that is the cutest little snowman and so instantly i said you know i could transform him and so that's what i'm going to do um the base of what i am going to uh you know adhere that to are these two signs uh from halloween from the dollar tree i liked the edge of the of them they kind of look jagged and uh i thought that that will look really cute with some snow uh faux snow on them for a wintry scene okay the first thing i'm trying to do is get these staples out they were pretty deep in there and i've used a couple of different tools but what helped the best was this upholstery tool now a sweet viewer had shared this with me in a a different video it is linked in my amazon shop if it's something that you're interested in checking out but it helps get out those deep staples i guess they use them in upholstery shops anyway and so um now what i'm doing i'm just trying to figure out how i want my signs to butt up where they kind of you know lay nicely together and uh so then i have some paint sticks i just picked up at the hardware store like lowe's or yeah it was probably lowe's and so then i'm just cutting off about an inch because they're a tad too long and i'm just making this for myself and so if i were to be giving this away or selling it i would definitely you know cover up this back but uh it doesn't matter to me since i'm keeping it for myself anyway so i am just hot gluing um the sticks to the back of the signs just for stability then to cover up like that seam or the signs are together i just have some of this um kind of like filler spackle from the dollar tree and i am just going around and just putting it in between where that you know where the signs meet and then also in the holes of the staple and i should have wet my fingers already because once i took a baby wipe and tried to clean up a little bit i discovered that it's it actually goes on a little more smoother so i didn't know like once i painted the crackle technique on it i didn't know if it would you know if uh the spackle were to adhere to you know it and that kind of thing it which it did it worked out just fine uh but i didn't know at the moment now i'm just using some buttermilk americana paint it's just acrylic paint i want that to be the bottom layer because that is what's going to show through the cracks because my i'm going to put my this color then a crackle medium layer and then a navy blue on top and so this this right here is what is going to show through the cracks so i'm using some crackle medium and you can get this at the craft store or i do have it linked in my amazon store and so i like to crack uh use the crackle technique on a lot of my projects and so i am just you know just giving some putting some here on the board and then i just take my brush and just go over it and it's you know i kind of take my time with it i make sure that all of the areas are covered and one of the ways that i kind of can tell is if i kind of hold the sign up or whatever i'm doing i kind of hold it up and you i can kind of see if there's like a spot that i miss okay while my crackle medium sign is drying i completely let that dry completely um and so what i'm doing is i'm working on my snowman and so i cut off like a bit of the excess of the box and so then i'm going to start tearing it because you know you can see like in the picture i am going to distress the edges and it kind of looks uh to me like some wood uh and so it all kind of ties the project together for me so i'm just taking my time and i'm going around the edges of the you know snowman and my like where my left hand is where my finger is i am just holding that i'm kind of positioning it there and then i'm tearing along where i want my tear to be because that is what helps me guide it you know so i don't tear too much into the actual snowman and so i just go around and i just tear off as much of the you know cardboard that i want and then i'm going to go back and i'm going to distress it with my favorite distress ink which is a vintage photo distress ink by tim holtz [Music] i'm using my posca pen uh the in white the pc3m and i'll gonna show you here it uh kind of you know just like a paint pen it kind of came out a little uh extra on you know on the hat but that's okay we're gonna make it work i'm just you know just going with it and so i use my heat tool to kind of set that up i'll go back over uh you know and doodle up everything with my black sharpie marker and make everything really cute i thought he had a really cute face already so i didn't do anything extra to that but uh yeah just you know just adding a little bit more character for the winter blessings little sign for my decor i'm using the bottom of the box and i'm just cutting away some of the excess that i don't need and to give myself you know some writing space i'm using it this posca pen it's a pc-5m which is one of my favorites for little projects like this and it's like a paint pen so you have to shake it up and you know make sure that you have the ink to come down and so i'm just hand lettering uh winter blessings on it and i'll do that by you know just uh writing out the the words and then doing my little happy dots on each end of the letters it's just something that i like to do for myself and then for the dot of each eye i am going to do a snowflake [Music] i'll do the same thing with my sign i will cut off the excess of the box and then i'm going to tear around the edges to give it the jagged a ragged edge or the ripped edge i want to like i i find like tearing it towards myself or towards my body that is what gives it the look that i want if i would tear it the other way it would give it a whole different look so just you know if you like this look just uh you know play around with it and see the different looks that you can get by by tearing your paper different ways so that you know it gives you the look that you want just using that same ink in vintage photo i'm just going around the sign with my finger dauber and just giving it some color and then i'll also do the same thing with a q-tip i'll just use that you know my ink and go around the letters just for extra depth and dimension then i'm going to use my posca pin the pc-3 and just highlighting the dots of the ends of the letters just for some highlight [Music] now that my crackle medium is all dry it will be shiny but there's no wetness to it i'm using this blue paint it is a deep midnight blue by americana it's just an acrylic paint and i work in sections because actually it starts to crack right before your eyes and so i want to avoid taking my brush and going over it several times so i try to get as much paint on my brush i load my brush as much as possible where i only have to do one downstroke um so that i don't go over it because i don't know it just kind of it just doesn't give a really pretty effect and once i show you how it all dries you'll kind of see what i'm talking about because if i go over it a little bit more it does tend to not crack as nicely so now my board is all dry and you can kind of see it gives it a really really nice crackle finish and so then now i'm just going to attach my sign and my snowman and i want him to be three-dimensional and so i achieve that just with some little wooden blocks from the dollar tree the jingle blocks or tumbling tower blocks that you find in the kids toys section and so i'm just hot gluing those to the back of my snowman then i'll glue those to the sign or to my back sign and then i'll also do the winter blessings as well and then i couldn't decide if i wanted to use the burlap snowflakes or the white snowflakes so i was just kind of you know back and forth a little bit trying to figure out which ones i wanted to use because i wanted to use both of them but since i did the distressing on the snowman and the sign i ended and this is rustic you know i ended up using the burlap snowflakes from hobby lobby [Music] i'm using these wintery branches i now i picked these up at walmart um they were in the you know floral section and they look i see branches and so i'm just trying to figure out how do i want to put them so then i needed something to stick them into so i pulled out my trusty excelsior it gives you know a barrier something for it to stick to and also adds a bit of whimsy which i do like and so i'm just hot gluing that to the bottom of the snowman and then i will attach the you know the icy looking branches to the bottom of the snowman [Music] for his bow i decided to make a bow for um like to put where his scarf is and so kind of to kind of camouflage the uh redness of the scarf so i have this two and a half inch uh ribbon from hobby lobby it's just a polka dot ribbon and i'm just making a two loop bow and i use my little tiny attacher stapler to you know hold it together in the middle and at first i was going to use this one um this check one but then i decided no i'm not going to use that so i wrap that back up put that to the side i'm using some different trims and so uh you know if you've watched my videos for a while when i make my little messy bows junk bows refab bows whatever you want to call them my little bows like this i like to use a different kind of trims and ribbons because you know it just adds just some different texture to your bows and so i have this uh you know trim these trims i get my trims at hobby lobby walmart anywhere like little trims like this are sold and so i'll just continue to make my bow i'm also using some muslin fabric i don't know if i said that already but i'm using some muslin fabric that i already had ripped and just cutting that off in strips i'll go back later and clean it up once i get my bow done i'm just using a pipe cleaner to um gather it all in the center and then i will use my needle nose pliers to help get it really really tight because i want my bow to pop and what i mean by that is like when i get it really really tight it kind of like shakes around and like perks up those ribbons uh because that is the look that i'm going for and by getting that pipe cleaner really really tight i can have that little pop of my bow to attach my bow i'm pulling out a bit more of the excelsior and then i'll hot glue that to the scarf that's on the snowman and so the object is i want to kind of take away or camouflage that redness of the scarf and then i just use my scissors to trim up any of the ribbon tails that don't lay right anyway so then now i am going to use some all-purpose caulk from the dollar tree and i am just i want to uh give my snowman some faux snow and so i'm just using some caulk and a stick and i want to camouflage some of those beer or cover up some of those red berries that's on the snowman's hat from this particular snowman and so i'm just taking some of those frosted branches and more of the caulk and just kind of you know putting some of that in there so that it kind of covers up those red berries and stuff and so then i'll just go around and i'll just add some more caulking um just by just giving it you know just some faux snow just hitting the high areas i kind of just play with it until i like the look of it and just continue to add some faux snow to my sign then to give it extra glisten i add some martha stewart's fine glitter and so if i know if you don't like glitter then don't do this part but i like to use this fine glitter and then i go over my caulking just to give it a little of snow glistening i do the same thing at the top that's why i liked these signs from the dollar tree they were halloween signs and i just like the jagged edge it kind of reminded me of you know something that you would see like an old picket fence and uh so i just take my caulking and just go around at the top of the uh of my sign and just around at the top of the you know winter blessings also i am sprinkling on some glitter i know that the camera and the video does not pick up the glistening of the sign but i love the way that this turned out i decided just to have it set um against you know like my little setup here i'm not going to put a hanger on it my first intention was going i was going to put a hanger on it but i just like it without a hanger just in my little winter decor setup that i have here and i hope [Music] these christmas faux books are so fun to create and i like to make them out of wood planks and these are all of the supplies that i'm going to use in this project i like to if i don't have scrap wood i use these wood pile wood planks from hobby lobby and i gave each of them two coats of plaster colored chalk paint and so then i'm going to use this distress ink in a paper towel and just go around all of the edges just to give it a distress it just kind of takes you know a little bit of the white down a bit and you know just gives me the rustic distressed look that i like i'm going to hand a letter and write on these books with this posca paint marker it's a pc1m and it's some god-given talent that he has given to me that i can share with all of you but i just you know i love to hand letter i love to write and do happy dots and so that's what most of my projects do and so what you see um what i'm doing here is i just need um just some leverage so that i can write on my books uh you know so my hand has somewhere to set so that's why i keep pushing the books back and forth anyway so i'm writing silent night on one of the books and then holy night on the other book and then i take the larger posca pen uh which is a pc5m and then i just put my happy dots on um on each of the books that i wrote on now you could use stamps or you could use stickers or maybe something else that i'm not even thinking about or you could leave your books plain and create an adorable arrangement for it for your decor so it's just really the options are just it's just limited um i'm just taking that uh 1m marker and just going around and just adding a bit of doodling to each of the edges of the books these styrofoam gold and silver bowl fillers are from the dollar tree and like i said they're styrofoam and so i just took my serrated knife that i have in my craft room and then i cut cut them in half i cut two of them in half and i'm going to use three of them for kind of like some buttons or something you know just something to kind of break that up on the edges and then now i just have this buffalo check ribbon that i have have on hand and i'm just going to make a bow and i'm going to add some greenery and some frosted berries to complete this little faux book arrangement decor [Music] do do [Music] this little wooden gingerbread man is from the dollar tree and it has the raised areas on the back but i don't want to use that i am going to actually use the smooth side where it doesn't have any of the raised parts i'm using some of this spackle patch from the dollar tree just to fill that small hole at the top so that it's all smooth i gave my gingerbread man two coats of brown acrylic paint you can use any color of brown that you want my favorite for my gingerbread man is this milk chocolate it's an americana brand but depending on what brand of paint you use will depend on the names of the different paints but i like this brown color once i give my gingerbread man two coats of the brown paint and it's dry then i am doing some shading i want to give a bit of definition and depth to my gingerbread man and as you can see there if i mess up a little bit a baby wipe is my one of my best friends uh and best tools in my craft room anyway so i'll just continue to shade that around there until i like the look of it and the next step i'm gonna do i'm giving some cheeks and i'm just using some barn red or a deep red for my gingerbread for the cheeks and i like to use a stencil brush and i kind of stipple it on i do lighter at first until i you know kind of get the look that i'm going for and so then i'll just continue to stipple on and until i get i like the look that i want and then next i'm gonna draw some eyes and i usually start out with my black sharpie marker uh with the eyes i make like an almond uh shape kind of you know have them together at the top that's just a look that i like i start with a black sharpie marker and then i go back and then i will do paint um you know for the eyes then i have a very thin old brush that i've had for many years that i just do little eyelashes i like my little faces to be cute and have cute little expressions and i achieve that with just the little brushes that i have and i'll also add some eyelashes i mean some eyebrows and then i'll do just a little mouth i'll just draw that little mouth on with my black sharpie mark [Music] my sign i'm using a 7 by 3 inch wood plaque i get them at walmart i know dollar tree has them in the crafter square section hobby lobby has them in their unfinished wood section there are different places that have these wood planks if you're interested in them okay i'm just taking my paintbrush and my true red americana paint it's just a red paint and i'm just going to give it a border i just you know take my paintbrush and i just go around the border you can use a ruler to you know mark it off if you don't feel confident in you know painting the little border and then in between the coats to help dry it i use my heat tool and just dry it up so that i can give it two coats of paint then i'll use my little liner brush and some white paint and just go around and give it some white dashes or stripes or whatever whatever you want to call them i just like that look then i'm going to use my half inch flat paint brush and some milk chocolate brown paint and it do some shading around the edges of the where the [Music] white paint meets the red paint and i like that look it just gives a little bit more depth and character to my projects i'm going to hand letter merry christmas on this sign and um when i got to the uh m in christmas um i got it a little bit closer together than what i wanted to this isn't my best brush i should have used a different brush but anyway i'm going to show you how i fix it if my letters get a little bit too close as you can see here and i'm going to go ahead and add a button to the eye and so at first i was like yeah i was going to scratch this and repaint it but then i was like you know what this will give me an opportunity to share with my viewers how i uh correct something if my painting doesn't come out the way that i want it to and so anyway i'm just um you know putting hand lettering that on there and just putting some dots on the ends of the letters because i like my happy dots okay this is what i was talking about my m is a little bit too close so i just take some of that off-white paint and just go through in just with my liner brush and my favorite brushes are linked in my amazon store and you can find the link in the description just underneath this video there's a description box it might be a little triangle or an arrow or something if you click that little arrow it it will expand the box [Music] i'm going to add some splatter paint to my projects i like that look um i achieve it just with an old stencil brush and a stick i just run it across the brush some friends have shared that they use their fingers across the brush or they'll use a an old toothbrush a toothpick anything like that to achieve this look um that's just you know entirely a personal preference and then i'll just go around my gingerbread man as well as my sign and i will give it extra doodling with my [Music] to decorate my gingerbread man i have one of the garland ties from the dollar tree and to get it to stay on my gingerbread i have my crop-a-dile and i'm using the larger hole punch and i am just figuring out here i want it to look like the garland or like the gingerbread man is holding the garland and so i'm just punching holes in like where the hands are where it looks like he's holding the garland and then i will just thread that through and then i'm going to decorate the garland with some pit berries some rusty jingle bells some um i added some buttons and uh make it look really cute oh and some fabric ribbon i just cut strips of fabric and tied them onto the garland i did this part uh on my facebook country charm by tracy facebook page so i have a facebook live i will have a link in the description below as an option if my some of my friends want to see that whole entire thing um where i'm live chatting with whoever was you know popping on the video i know here on youtube that a lot of people don't like the chatting and all of that stuff so that's why i tried to trim this down and just show exactly how i did this gingerbread craft so what i'm doing here is i cut strips of fabric and then i cut smaller strips and i'm tying them on the garland four little ties where it looks like bows on the gingerbread garland then i will add some pit berries um the garland strand the one with the little rusty jingle bells i got from joann's and then the pit berries i got from hobby lobby in the miniature ornament section [Music] for the sign um the sign that i'm using is one left over from the dollar tree it was from summer and uh i just uh sanded off the majority of the glitter the paper is from hobby lobby and i just measured it and just cut it to fit and um i'm going to layer with my or actually attach that with my adhesive tape glider it is just double-sided tape and it's just a holder that you can put your tape in and you can glide it it is linked in my amazon store or you can find them at the craft store or um you know different places and so i just um use it to attach the paper to my sign so then once i do that then i'm going to add some shading with my vintage photo distress ink and then once i do that then i will add some green rick rack and continue um with then putting on my gingerbread so [Music] for my hanger i am using some wire that i got at michael's in the floral section and i'm just using some beads now i got these wooden beads the brown and the red are from walmart in the christmas section and the larger um natural one is from hobby lobby i got those on sale from the fall season and so then i am just threading on i'll show a picture here to share exactly how my beads looked on my sign now it's time to work on the bow and i'm just cutting strips of that same fabric and then also using some ribbons now i get most of my ribbons either from hobby lobby walmart or a dollar tree and i like the burlap from the dollar tree i'm just cutting off a piece of that i'm just making a messy bow junk bow refab bow whatever you want to call it i'm just making a bow for my hanger and then i just kind of um just tear off just you know or just cut off pieces of the uh ribbon and um for the center bow that ribbon is from hobby lobby and i just use my tiny attacher just to put you know a little staple in the middle if you follow me for any length of time you know that i love my little tiny attacher and then i just gather everything together and i put it together first and then i said i wanted to put some green in there so i untwisted it i used a pipe cleaner to twist everything together but i just cut off strips of that rickrack and just included it in the bow and i think it looks really cute [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay this is going to be my cute santa that i made as a wreath attachment for this cute wreath now what i'm using is a an ornament from the dollar tree as well as a santa hat the buffalo red and black check and the faux fur is from hobby lobby and the one and three quarter inch uh balls are from hobby lobby i got those on sale a couple of um i don't know a few months ago when they were you know clearancing out some stuff anyway but they are uh you know uh smooth on one side so that they will fit nicely on my my santa okay so for the um the little tag i'm just using my heat tool just to get that tag off i'm not painting it or anything because the fur is going to cover everything up and so the first thing i do is just kind of smooth out my fur just kind of position it on my ornament where i want it to go i'm kind of just you know arranging my hat just kind of see where i want to lay everything before i glue it down i'm going to want my beard to have you know like a beard shape where it angles down so i'm just kind of uh you know was folding it down just to kind of get the shape that i wanted before i cut it off now i had just uh you know bended it over and i'm using my box blade and i'm just taking my marker and just marking where i want it where i want to cut the felt and the optic is to cut the felt and not go all the way through to cut the uh you know cut the fur actually itself so i'm just taking my time i'm going through and just uh you know an exacto knife or something else that that might work but this is just what i had on hand and i'm just trying to cut through the fur and not like cut the i mean cut i'm trying to cut through the felt and not cut the fur to give it a choppy look so i'm gluing my hat on now just trying to figure out how far i want it down i'm just using some stuffing um that i got you know from walmart something like that an old sock would work plastic bags old rags something like that but this is just something that i had on hand and i just kind of put some i wanted that to give it a little bit of form and so then now i glue on my nose and i did that first because i wanted to ensure that i had the right placement before i glue on my beard and i want my hat to kind of go down over the nose and this is a one and three quarter inch wooden ball that was flat on one side and so i just want to make sure that everything is nice and you know where i want it to be before i glue everything down for the top of my hat i'm just bending over the you know the tip of it and just kind of fluffing out the ball of the hat i have two 30 millimeter rusty jingle bells now i had these on hand uh i know that you know amazon has you know jingle bells and there's other places that you can find them i just have some wire that i just threaded them through and just tied them to the ball of the hat i'm just kind of positioning it positioning it so that they are you know toward the the top and so i just have one of these garland ties that come from the dollar tree i had it on hand everything that i'm working with is something that i had on hand from previous years and so anyway i had just cut a strip of muslin fabric and just tied it around the hat and just now i'm just fooling with it just to kind of get my bells and my fabric my garland everything uh you know position on the top and then what i do is i glue it down uh there so it stays nice and you know stays in spot you know it stays in place right there and so um now you know this is just the back of it i'm just kind of taking off the fuzz and anyway so um i i'm looking at it because i'm like yeah this that beer is a little bit too long so i end up a little bit uh before i attach it to the wreath i end up cutting it a little bit more now i'm going to start on the wreath i'm using an 18 inch wire form and these three 10 inch deco mesh the wire form is from the dollar tree and the deco mesh are all from hobby lobby and i just rolled them out i roll them all three at one time everybody has their own or each wreath maker has their own uh way of doing things and i'm cutting these at 12 inches and i cut all three at one time because i'm going to put all three of them together and put them into or tie them onto the wreath i actually made 24 uh bundles of these three and i'm just do using the um curl or cruffle technique and uh what how i do it i just you know bend over the ends i clip it with a little clamp that i get from the dollar tree and clamp that like that i do each one of these the same way and then i'm just gonna layer them crisscrossing them make like an x pattern or um you know a star or something like that and you know so and then i tie all three of these on the wreath and i like i said i made 24 bundles i just used some pipe cleaners and just attached them to the wreath form on it this one right here i tied the i put the pipe cleaner on the inner ring and then i go on the outer ring and then i go on the inner ring and so that kind of i kind of stagger it and so that is kind of how i make my wreaths just kind of tie those on there like that and the clips from that those blue and uh white clips um i get from the dollar tree i find them in the uh laundry section and i love those clips uh clamps whatever you want to call them because they they open very wide and uh they help with streamlining and um you know help just kind of hold things together so that they kind of act as an extra pair of hands for me or extra fingers and i am all about convenience i tell you so i just love how full and how um just all of this i just love all of these different colors together and because the santa you know was so big i ended up using the 18 inch wire frame and i'm so glad that i did these are the ribbons i'm using in this wreath the first three came from hobby lobby the merry christmas burlap came from sam's in the red and black buffalo check i've had on hand for a couple of years and that came from dollar general and so i cut these at 13 inches using my perfect tails ribbon helper it kind of helps me with you know twisting my ribbon around it and then i can cut it all at one time and then i dovetail it what i want um so what i'm showing you here is i put these two patterns together and i help myself by uh kind of getting my bundles together i just put these two together and then the other three i will make that a bundle i use my tiny attacher my little stapler it is just a handy little tool that i use in my craft room that helps with my bow making [Music] since i have 24 bundles i need 24 bundles of ribbon so i have 12 of each uh and so for these three right here i'm just making a bow with some raffia because i'm going to put that in the middle of that and that is what i am um you know the raffia that's what i'm putting in those bundles and i just trim off you know the excess and just hit it with some hot glue to kind of seal the middle of the you know where the pipe cleaner goes and for the uh these larger jingle bells i got these from hobby lobby a long time ago i don't know what the millimeter is it doesn't say it on the package but they're large jingle bells they were in the like miniature ornaments section and so i'm going to put these jingle bells in the middle of the with the burlap merry christmas and the windowpane ribbon and uh so this it was six of these jingle bells in this package i've had them on like i said i got them when they were like clearancing out all of their stuff you know many years ago i pick up this kind of primitive country stuff and so i had it on hand so i am using it for this wreath because i think it just all ties everything together so my my point is just be on the lookout you know even at uh thrift stores goodwill yard sales you know marketplace on facebook they're always people are always clearancing out um stuff and you know check amazon they may have some of these the large jingle bells as well [Music] so i just alternated on the um you know just put the ribbon bundles in the top and the bottom and then i just trim everything with my little scissors and fluff everything out and so i just love this i just love the the whole country feel of this wreath i'm really happy the way that it turned out and so i always try to you know fluff my ribbons out so that they're not stuck underneath okay so then now i'm gonna put on my santa and i'm like yep that beard is a little bit too long so i go through the same thing again uh just using my box blade and it just cutting off you know the felt and just kind of tearing it as i go not to cut the fur itself so that it still is wispy [Music] to attach my santa to to the wreath i'm using these uh cable tie mounts now these are listed in my amazon store i will have a link to that in the description box below if you're interested in these things that kind of help us attach these signs to our wreaths if you don't have you know if they don't have holes in it and so i they they are sticky already but i like uh extra you know glue to give it uh extra bonding because i don't want my signs to fall off and so i just use e6000 and as well as some hot glue so just using the pipe cleaners i just threaded threaded it through the mesh back to the frame twisted around the wire frame just so that everything is nice and snug and then i'm just making sure that my santa is where i wanted him to be now guys i'm going to put a note on this that i would not recommend this to be um you know in the weather elements because of the fur because you know with weather elements it gets all nasty uh anyway i would just have it for inside use okay now what i'm gonna do is i have this pine and it's faux pine i've had it in my stash i probably i had a hobby log lobby tag so it's probably something i got last season this silver thing right here this is a stem cutter i got from deco exchange i will have a link for it it's an affiliate link that i'm gonna list in the description box below if you're interested in checking it out um i had used some birthday money this past year to purchase it because it is it just has made my life so much easier it's a like a wire cutter but you know i can just you know just use it right there on my my table and i don't have to struggle with my wire cutters anyway so with this pine i'm just i had cut it all down nice and so i used my steel picks machine to put a steel pick on the end of it and then also my hot glue i like to use the combination when i'm using uh you know putting it in deco mesh wreaths like this because it makes everything nice and snug and if you saw my son's hands he was in my room hanging out with me i love that time like that he was giving me his suggestions of where my holes were and so i really appreciate it [Music] do [Music] so i bought some just cut off the yard from walmart and made the little hat for that for the beard i'm using some of this yarn from hobby lobby i'm using the poly fill batting to bulk up my little hat i used an ornament for the nose and some foam board to kind of tie everything together i started with one of these santa hats from the dollar tree i just took off all of the tinsel i didn't worry about the nubs around the edge or anything i just covered all of that up and covered this with fleece to bulk it up i choose to use some of this extra loft batting just quilt batting and it's just the small and it just gives some stability to my little project so for my fleece like i said i was unable to find any of the scarves at the dollar trees that are near me so i just covered this with a little uh fleece i just cut it to for the shape of that and then i have this foam board that um i just traced the hat and just kind of fussy cut it around and i just painted the back in the front because that is what is going i'm going to glue everything to you know for my little gnome for the nose i'm just using an ornament from the dollar tree and i'm just going to glue that right there underneath his hat this is the yarn i decided to use it is from hobby lobby it's by yarn v showstopper sleepy sky is the name of it and i just thought that it looked really good because i liked um you know santa to have a gray beard anyway so what i did is i just took that yarn and just tied a knot in it and then just cut it off and then just i'm gonna glue those knots onto my foam board to create the little beard for santa so i didn't realize that i didn't hit record but what i did is i just glued my santa hat to the foam board just using some hot glue and then now i'm just laying out my little beard kind of to see where i want to place them i kind of had them a little shorter on the sides and then it got longer in the middle and then also i just hot glued the ornament to to the foam board and then i should have put it a little bit underneath his hat but i forgot to do that so if you do recreate it make sure that you cover the nose a little bit more with the hat that's one mistake that i made that i wish but i already had everything glued down but it's all right it's a learning experience anyway so then now i am just going to just put the like santa beard and then hot glue everything down [Music] then i just covered any holes that may need additional yarn i just added more yarn strands to fill up the little holes [Music] do [Music] to make a hanger for my little santa gnome to hang i have just some wire and since the backing is foam board i'm just punching some holes in there and gonna slide that wire in the back and then to kind of cover it up i will cut a piece of felt and glue all of that down [Music] after this was all finished and i was taking pictures i realized that i didn't cover up the nose as much as i initially wanted to so if i were to recreate it i would definitely cover up more of his nose to give him that gnome look anyway but i am pretty satisfied with the way that this turned out and i hope that you like it too please give me the wooden shapes that i'm using are from the dollar tree as well as the one from dollar general the pattern paper is this buffalo plaid and ticking pattern that i got out of this wonderful stack this jwb collection i found it over at hobby lobby i think it is a paper studio brand and it is filled with plaids all different kind of plaids and stripes and just all kind of plaid goodness if you like plaid this is the pattern stack for you also to make the stands i'm going to be using uh some of these tower game jingle blocks and i appreciate a friend and follower giving me this tip so i am using it and it works wonderful i'm just using my aleene's tacky glue because that's what i have on hand and i love to use aleene's tacky glue for everything like this it just holds everything together so i'm just going to put some glue on there and i'm going to butt those up together and let those dry and then i will make my little stands for my trees i just want my trees to be have paper on one side so i'm just going to paint the sides and the back black and then i'm going to adhere paper the buffalo check paper to the front side of the trees [Music] when i got the tree from dollar tree i wish that it was a little bit taller and the one from dollar general just gives me what i'm i'm looking for when i put those up together i said oh my goodness it is giving me the height that i was looking for for my little christmas tree so the question was how am i going to mask that tree trunk and so i did that by adding a rustic bow oh my goodness i love the way that this turned out this is my black and white buffalo check that i created because i wasn't quite sure how it's going to do these trees so now i am showing you what i did with the red and black buffalo check okay i wanted to make sure that my buffalo check was lined up so i wanted that black stripe to be down the the center that was kind of my guide so i used a bit of washi tape to kind of hold that down on the tree so that i could trace around it then for the top of the tree i'm doing the same thing i'm just lining up my patterned paper and then i used a little bitty piece of washi tape to kind of hold the tree so that i could trace around it and cut that out i used mod podge to adhere the paper to the wooden little tree just giving it a coat of mod podge then i go over it i'm using a squeegee to squeeze out any of the excess mod podge i just kind of you know just scrape it and then you know get out all of that little extra and then i put a layer of mod podge over the top of the tree as well so that it will seal it i just painted the stands black as well and then now i'm just going to glue those to the bottom of the large tree makes i'm making sure that it is even and level so that it will stand up straight now i'm going to share a little bitty boo boo with you and tell you how i fixed it i didn't get my paper on the tree exactly the way that i need to so a little bit of the wood is showing so how i fix that is i have some black ink i just running that across i was going to shade my tree anyway so this worked out perfect so if even if i would have painted it it would have been okay but i didn't want to paint the front of it i didn't want to take the time to do that so just by getting that tree off just a little bit it was kind of hard getting that uh you know mod podge tree on there because you got to work so fast because mod podge dries pretty quick so now i'm just running it over the tree just to give it some a rustic goodness now i'm ready to glue the smaller tree onto the larger tree to make it the height that i'm looking for i'm making sure that i line up those patterns so that it you know it all flows correctly and i'm going to be covering up that tree trunk i'm going to show you a rustic bow that i created to cover up that tree trunk [Music] i like to outline and give some doodles to my projects so that's what i'm doing here then i'm going to share how i'm going to create the bow and the supplies that i use to create uh the center of that so i can cover up that tree trunk i just added some pine that came from the dollar tree i just used a sprig of that hot glued that on my tree and then for my bow i like using the one and a half inch ribbons for little projects like this so i just cut those at nine inches and then now i'm going to make a tulip bow out of this black and white buffalo check or gingham ribbon and just using my tiny attacher i will have a link to my amazon store where you can see this more closely you can get um more details on it as well as if you would like to order one that is one of my favorite tools in my craft room is that little tiny attacher stapler so now i'm just adjusting my bow and just going to hot glue that there in the center and my little tree trunk of that smaller christmas tree is covered up i just added some more pine and some pit berries and just made it look really cute to decorate the bottom i just added some excelsior little moss and then i added some pine and some pit berries and just made it look really cute for the top of the tree i added one of these rusty stars now i got these at hobby lobby years ago i'm not quite sure if they are still in their trim tree section they're in like the miniature ornaments section and so i found these rusty stars there over there at hobby lobby so i'm just taking out they're actually ornaments so i'm just cutting off the the part that actually is an ornament and then i'm making a raffia bow just tying that into a bow and then i'm going to glue that at the top of my tree and then add the rusty star to the top as my star top a little tree topper [Music] i did the same thing with the smaller tree uh added it to the wooden sign with some scrapbook paper and then inked around the edges to give it a more rustic feel i also added some excelsior pine and berries to the bottom and then to give it a little more decoration i just added some jute and then also added some pit berries [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay using this little halloween decor um i'm going to be painting on the back side but i want to get some of that glitter off because it's just it's a little bit too much glitter and when i put my scrapbook paper on i don't want it you can see through it if it's a little raised or embossed and so like i said here you'll see multiples of the pumpkins in the video but it's just because i was doing a lot of them at a time and i like to do that so um to get my paper my one sheet of paper is 12 by 12 and it wasn't quite long enough so i needed to adhere two of them together and then trace out my pumpkin and then i just cut that out with my scissors [Music] [Music] i'm using the plaster color waverly chalk paint to paint my snowmen and i am giving each of them two coats of the paint then i will adhere my scrapbook paper to the back of the pumpkins is where the jack-o-lanterns are i want to cover up those jack-o-lanterns all of my scrapbook paper came from hobby lobby it's the paper studio brand anyway and so then my mod podge i am just adhering it i i find it helpful to work in sections so i just do half of the paper and then i put the other half on i'm using my roller as well as my squeegee and then now i am going to shade my little snowman using some brown milk chocolate paint i take a flat paint brush and i dip half of my brush in paint the other half in water and i blend it there on a paper towel all of my my favorite brushes will be linked in the description box below if you would like to know exactly which brushes i use okay to add some cheeks i am using some coral colored paint as well as a stencil brush i just dab that on um with the stencil brush i like the stencil brush because it's not solid and it kind of looks a little streaky which i like and then i'm just nipping off the um the part of the hat that was from the jack-o'-lanterns because i'm not going to need that and then now i'm going to work on the eyes there are several ways uh i like to do eyes but this is my favorite i like to pencil them on and then use some black paint to fill those in and then i will use a thin brush a very loved loved thin brush and i will make some eyelashes and i will make some eyebrows and then also i'll work on doing the nose i like to use puffy paint for nose uh from my noses and i just use a little squigglies by just you know just making sure the puffy paint is like where the paint is near the um you know end of the the little bottle because i don't like those little air pockets that go poof you know anyway so i just make some little squiggles to make the the nose and then now i'm just adding some character to the eyes by just taking my brush and just adding some little white to the eyes using the end of a paint brush to add a little dot and that gives me my eyes just using my little heat tool here to kind of set up my little carrot nose and then i'm going to do my doodles with my black sharpie marker first i'm using the fine point sharpie marker going all the way around then i will go back and on the inner side i will use the ultra fine sharpie marker i like the combination that it gives with the two markers together now i'm going to make a mouth for my little snowman and i dip my uh the end of a paintbrush i use that to make my little dots and by dipping it every single time it keeps my dots the same size and then now i'm going to splatter and just taking a stiff stencil brush and a wooden stick i just run the stick across my bristles toward my body and then that then the paint goes on the project or wherever i want it to go then using my favorite gloss varnish it is a ceramic delta creative varnish i will have a link in the description box below i like the glossy look but i think they also have a matte and maybe a satin okay for his little hat i'm using a sock from the dollar tree and i just had some stuffing that i just put in there to kind of give it some filler where it kind of looks like you know a little head and then i'm just kind of positioning it and i have these clear rubber bands that i pick up from the dollar tree in the hair accessory section and i'm just gathering that there because i'm going to be putting some bells and some little ribbon i just cut off the toe only because you know so that it's i can spread it out just a little bit and then now i have this fabric from walmart in the fabric section and i'm just going to cut off some of that i'm i guess probably about two inches and i just rip it because i like the ripped edges i think it looks a little you know tattered and worn when you rip it like that it just gives those rough edges i cut off a portion of the fabric just to have a little bow for the top of my little hat but first i want to do some jingle bells i had these jingle bells in my crafting stash and i just have some wire my favorite wire is from the dollar tree in the automotive section and so i am just you know just securing those little bells at the top of the hat and then i will tie my little ribbon on there hmm now i'm tying some fabric around his neck for his little scarf and i'll just add some greenery and some raffia and some berries and so um i'm just kind of playing with it here that greenery is from michael's i got that last year uh on sale on clearance after christmas i love the pine looking greenery and so i'm just gonna kind of play with it here just to figure out how i want it the pit berries are from the dollar tree they are new this season yay because i love me some pit berries and pip berries are very country primitive and so i love them especially in my little projects and so anyway i'm just kind of fiddling here with the ribbon i mean the fabric and just kind of making the little bow i added some buttons as well as a rusty little snowflake that i had in my stash along with those little rusty jingle bells and my little primitive country heart is happy happy happy i love this so much and i thank my member uh sweet diane over in the country charm community for sharing her ideas [Music] let me show you how i put this little wreath together using these supplies some metal words some wood shapes an ornament shape from the dollar tree ribbon a foam wreath rusty stars berries greenery and wood plugs so let's get started for the wood shapes i'm using these from the dollar tree the larger one is from hobby lobby i'm going to use holly green for the tree and milk chocolate for the top of the star and then the bottom of the little tree and just giving each tree two coats of paint and then for the stars i am using these little rusty stars in the my little christmas from um hobby lobby and i just kind of pull them off and then just hot glue them on my trees [Music] for the little trim on the trees i'm using some little trim from hobby lobby and i just glue it on with my hot glue and i love it it's just so cute and it just really makes the little tree just so festive and fun to decorate my tree a bit more i'm using these little furniture plugs they're in the unfinished wood section at the craft store and the smaller ones are 5 16 and the larger one is a half inch i just hot glued them to my tree [Music] this is a 10 inch wreath from the dollar tree and this two and a half inch buffalo check ribbon from hobby lobby i just wrapped it at a diagonal on this wreath just hot gluing it in different places all the way around the wreath i want my little tree the larger tree to sit up kind of dimensional and since this wreath is a foam wreath i am just going to cut a little slit there in the ribbon as well as kind of gouge out a bit of that little styrofoam so that i can fit the trunk of the tree in there and then i'll just hot glue that in place [Music] i'm going to work on my ornament so that it can dry i removed the little silver top part just with my little scraper and then i took my sanding block and sanded off as much glitter as i wanted because i gave this ornament two coats of white chalk paint on both sides i want my little ornament to have the shiplap look so i'm just taking a ruler and my box blade and just making some little indentions across the ornament to give it a little shiplap look i'm really not measuring anything i'm just kind of eyeballing it i'm not going all the way through i'm just kind of hitting that top layer and then you can kind of feel the indentions but i also ran my sanding block over it to give it a bit of distressing and then now i'm just going to hot glue the little top of the ornament on there and then i want to figure out where i want to put my wreath and then i'm just going to put lots of hot glue on there and just glue the wreath to the ornament now i just want to figure out where i want to put my smaller trees and i just hot glue those um to the wreath form and then i'm using some excelsir and i like to get the fine excelsir i get it at joanne's and i always use my 40 percent off coupon and so then i just kind of add that to the bottom it kind of adds like a filler and uh it just i like the color of it and it just kind of adds a bit of rustic feel to my project so then i'm just hot gluing that uh there on the bottom of that where those trees are and it kind of helps it also is something for my greenery to grab onto this little frosted greenery is from walmart and i'm just taking a few sprigs of those and just hot gluing those to the bottom of the little wreath and then this pine is from hobby lobby i cut off a couple of little sprigs of that and since this is a foam wreath you know if um i could get those to stick in there and then i just hot glue those in place and this little wreath is looking really cute little berries is just what this little farmhouse christmas wreath needs these berries are from the dollar tree and i just cut off a couple of sprigs of those and just figure out where i can get those to stick in there and then hot glue them now these little white squiggles i got these at walmart early in the season when they were just putting out their christmas supplies and i knew that i was going to use these in some projects and so i just am just snipping these off with my little wire cutters and the little wire bends so easy and since this is a styrofoam wreath i can just poke those in the styrofoam add a bit of hot glue and we are well on our way to getting this little wreath finished [Music] a couple of the little wires were a bit hard to stick in the little styrofoam so i just pulled out my paper piercer um i got that years ago i don't remember where i got it from and i just poked some holes in the little styrofoam and then that gave me the little hole to stick my little curlicue in to get my believe to look like it is rusty i'm using a combination of truffle paint and milk chocolate paint i just painted the word with two coats of the truffle paint and then i just dabbed on some milk chocolate paint to give a rusty effect i put a coat of gloss varnish on my little word here since this these words are metal they um kind of you know chip a little bit and the varnish kind of helps from um you know the chipping of the little paint and so then i hot glued the little word onto my little wreath and just kind of position everything and figuring out what i want to do for the little bow i have my same two and a half inch buffalo check ribbon and i'm just going to make just two loops i secured it with my little tiny attacher a little stapler that kind of helps hold my little ribbon together i will have a link in the description below if you are interested in getting the details of what that little stapler is and then back to my little bow i'm just trying to figure out how big i want my little bow and what i'm going to want to add to it so i'm just cutting off just a small piece of the ribbon and then i just glue the ribbon so that i can you know make it uh where it will look nice in the middle of it and then just hot glue the bow to the wreath [Music] [Music] [Music] i added some thinner buffalo check ribbon this is a 5 8 inch ribbon from hobby lobby as well and i just love the way that this little smaller wreath turned out that's what i was going for to make a smaller wreath for you know if you don't have a big space to you know have a wreath you can just make a cute little farmhouse wreath [Music] okay for my trucks i put a layer of white paint over them so that when i painted them red it wouldn't take as many coats the red that i'm using is this crimson red chalk paint and this is by waverly i get it over at walmart and by putting that layer of white paint underneath there and then the red paint on top i only had to use one layer of the red chalk paint now i choose chalk paint because it gives a really nice finish and it dries quickly so that's why i like to use chalk paint on these kind of projects [Music] [Music] do [Music] i'll just continue to bring my little red truck to life i painted the bottom of the outer truck with some granite gray paint and where the license plate goes and then on the larger truck i just paint a back glass just kind of freehanding that with a layer of that granite gray paint and then i will just finish up by adding some shading and then i will enhance my um you know my tires so they look you know a little bit more realistic [Music] now i'm going to add some rusting look to the trucks now don't pay any a mind to that ho ho ho sign because at first i painted that i was going to add that to the back of my truck but then it didn't look right and so i had to rethink it and i that's when i came up with the mary mail sign and i like it a lot better so i will just be using that ho ho ho sign in another project and what i'm doing to add the rust to my truck is i have some brown paint and i have a stencil brush and i just go through and using the brown paint and i also use some orange paint and i am just you know giving it some enhancement of the like a rust and so then now i have some silver paint i think i got that at hobby lobby and then i'm going to give it some my glass like some reflection so it kind of looks a little bit more realistic just adding that and then also a little bit later or sometime during this video i remember that i need to add some rear view mirrors so i will also use that silver paint to paint the sides of the little truck like where the pumpkins were for those harvest trucks man i just love the way that this is all turning out now i will use my fan brush and just add some white highlights back to the back of the truck as well as the you know larger truck just adding some highlights to it [Music] [Music] now i just will add some splattering to my projects i do the black first and then i do the white on top i do have a video um i will link to it where i show a little bit more in depth about splattering my projects then i take my black sharpie marker go over all of the project just to add just a little bit of you know more definition and it's just something i like to do i like to use the sharpie brand uh fine marker as well as the ultra fine marker so i just go around and just kind of enhance the projects it kind of helps with you know any like little flaws or something because my projects i promise are not perfect they are not by the grace of god he has allowed me to share all of this with y'all really and so i just i'm giving you all my little tips anyway so i am just going to give each side of this truck a coat of this clear varnish i like to use the delta brand varnish it is uh just a personal preference you know i get questions about varnishes about if you can use a spray varnish absolutely whatever works for you i'm just showing you what i like to do for my project so then now i'm going to make my mary mail sign and i have just one of those wood planks from walmart and i painted it with the crimson color of red and then now i'm going to shade it and using the same technique half of my brush and paint half of my brush in water blend it on a paper towel and i just shade around this little sign so then using a flat paintbrush i am just hand lettering here mary male and it's taken me many years to be able to paint like this with a paintbrush and so i just want to encourage all of you that are trying to do this please continue to try practice practice practice by the grace of god he has allowed me to be able to learn and teach me these skills it takes a lot of patience and i know that you can do it too the good thing that if you mess up or you feel you've messed up you can just paint over it or i'm going to show you here just a little trick where i feel that i got my on the mail little letters i got my m a little too close to my a and i'm going to show you what i'm going to do to fix that so that that will give you a little tip um for your little painted projects so i just have some crimson red paint here and i just have a thin liner brush and just taking some paint i just paint in between those letters so it kind of looks like you know they're separated a little bit more then a baby's white a baby wipe is a crafter's best friend and i use them all of the time in my craft room and if i you know mess up a little bit i can just use a little baby wipe to kind of help me out so um just going around the letters and if there's any little letter that's a little out of whack i just take my paint and my liner brush and i just kind of clean it up just a little bit and so then now i'm just going to add some dots by using the end of a paintbrush and sometimes when i you know do my little happy dots for with the little paint brush it kind of splatters a little bit and you know i'm okay with it but if you're not just be careful with that but it kind of gave me an idea to you know add some little polka dots to this sign and so sometimes you know that may be viewed as a painting error or a little mistake actually turns out into a happy little unique accident so anyway so i'm just going to finish up here by putting the happy dots on my letters and then i'll go back and i will use a stylus to add some little white dots to give it give the sign a polka dotted look i'm just going to use the edge of my fan brush to kind of give it some i don't know just enhancements i just you know i fly by the seat of my pants i really don't plan stuff out i just kind of like the look of it and i'm like oh that looks good so let's give it a little bit more anyway if you're looking for perfect projects you're not going to find it here on my channel i say that you know respectfully but i am not a perfect painter i'm not a perfect crafter i just like to share my tips and tricks of things that i have found works over the years uh just like this i'm adding just a little bit of highlight to my letters they are so unperfect it is just sad anyway just using a liner brush i just add a bit of shading and uh you know i clean up my letters by you know just adding some more paint and you know just kind of going through and just just adding different colors just really kind of makes the whole difference [Music] to glue my box to my truck and just using some aleene's tacky glue as well as some hot glue and i just line it up at the bottom and just kind of um you know position it down at the bottom and i love the way that this is turning out i think this little truck is just gonna turn out so cute and i'm gonna look forward to using it for years to come [Music] [Music] even though we don't get snow here in my part of texas um i wanted my little red truck to have some snow so i this is another one of my little tips i use all-purpose caulk and a little stick and i just kind of put it on just hitting the high areas you know like where snow would fall and let that dry completely so then now um i'm going to decorate the truck and i thought about adding some little mini lights but that didn't work out i'm adding some i have some of those uh greenery ties from the dollar tree and some pit berries also from the dollar tree and i just cut off a little bit of that and i didn't want to put a whole lot of decorations on here because uh it's going to be functional uh it is my christmas card box so uh just putting some little enhancements as far as the uh little pit berries and just kind of putting it around the edges and hot gluing that on the back just works great for me [Music] i'm just finishing up putting the embellishments on here and i love the way that these little tracks are turning out i'm so happy that i picked up several of these with the four thought that you know what i'm going to want to use those in other seasons and to create different things i did the harvest truck i also did a halloween one with the boo crew and then now doing this christmas card box i just love the way it turned out okay this is going to be the bow tutorial for my little mary mill red truck that okay these are all of the ribbons that i'm using here in this bow this ribbon is from hobby lobby and i like it because they have stitched it versus this is one that i've had from a couple of years ago and i don't even have any idea what it it's supposed to be stitched but yeah it's not stitch anyway and it comes apart but this one is stitched a little bit heavier so i like this one and then this also is from hobby lobby it's kind of like a tweeted burlap and then this one these three are from the dollar tree this black polka dot this white polka dot and then this burlap ribbon um i like this burlap ribbon because it kind of curls on itself and i'm going to be using that this one is also from hobby lobby and then i got this one this year from walmart and i like the larger black and white buffalo checks so i'm going to be using that some raffia and then also i'm going to be using some of these floral stems and this is what i'm going to thread my little jingle bells on and make some little curlicues out of that then and i'm also going to be using some greenery these are those little christmas ties or pine ties that you can get from the dollar tree i like to use a shelf liner underneath my mat because it helps with movement of my little mat when i cut my ribbon and so then i'm taking this burlap with the red and burlap checkered or gingham and measuring that out for 10 inches then taking my rotary cutter and then i cut that then i'm going to dovetail the ends and how you dovetail is fold the ribbon in half then fold it in half again and then taking my scissors i start at the bottom corner and i go up like for a v when you open it up you have these cute little dovetails or v cuts the way um it just kind of for me it kind of makes a finished look okay the next i'm going to take this one so i have this one first then i'm going to take this this one right here this is a mixed media so this is going to be in the scrapbooking section so i'm going to measure that out to 10 inches as well i'm going to cut this one with my scissor because it's a little bit thicker and it kind of curls on itself so the rotary cutter is not going to cut it very well so doing the same thing folding it in half folding it in half again now this one has it looks like it's going to have some strings so i'm going to send the singe the edges and i do that by taking my lighter and just running the flame across the edge and it kind of singes the edges of that ribbon so that they don't fray anymore see it kind of curls on itself okay so let me put that one to the side and then looking back at my boo then i the next one i did was this black and white gingham i'm going to roll that one out to 9 inches because i want it to be just a little bit shorter cut that off do the same thing fold it in half fold it in half again take my lighter just run it across the edges of it i didn't do it to this one because this one seems to be not fraying so i'm just going to leave it like that but this one right here kind of comes it just depends on your ribbon and the more you work with ribbon the more you'll be able to determine hey i'm going to need to singe that or it's it's not gonna bother it okay so then next i'm taking this polka dotted ribbon cut that at nine inches fold it in half fold it in half again dovetail the ends have this black and what uh black polka dotted burlap cut that one at nine inches fold it in half fold it in half again okay there we go there's that then for my raffia i just take out several strands and then i kind of make a bow just tie a bow kind of like you're tying your shoestring and then make a bow and i kind of cut that off and then i have this extra and i want to use that as well i kind of pull the ends if some of them are a little bit shorter i kind of pull them where they're centered and then i'm just going to make a knot in this part so that i kind of have these little straggly ends of the raffia cut off any of the excess that may stick out too far i don't like that so then i'll layer my bow where i have some some of this here and then you know i have the little tails okay for my jingle bells i'm using a one of these a floral stem um probably got it at hobby lobby or joann's or michael's or something like that it's this floral stem you can get it in the floral section so i'm gonna use a stem of that and i have three of these jingle bells and then i'm just gonna thread the jingle bells on on this little stem to the middle of course it doesn't want to go because you know i'm filming it let's try the other side okay see that one went on much simpler so then we're gonna okay so then i have these three jingle bells so then i kind of position them so they kind of look you know clustered like that and then i'm just gonna twist it so they kind of look like a little cluster of the jingle bells like that and then so then i kind of twist the wire pull that out like that so then now i'm going to layer my bow so i have i'm going to cut my greenery i'm going to cut that in half it doesn't have to be exact just going to cut that in half okay i have my little tiny attacher little mini stapler this is my favorite thing to use when i am making a bow and okay so i'm going to put this one first then i'm going to kind of layer this one on top of there kind of criss-crossing making an x let's see i think i put this one it doesn't matter it's just that that this is just my personal preference so see how this kind of you can see all the ribbons when you kind of crisscross them like that without them being covered up and so i'm going to take my little tiny attacher and i staple them so they all stay together so then i can layer on my other elements and what i'm doing here is just kind of bending the greenery where it's not totally straight see how this one's straight i kind of bend it kind of make a u or something like that layer that like that then now i'm going to take this part of the raffia with a little knot i'm going to layer it like that then i take this one which is the um oh wait i wanted to add this ribbon i forgot to add this one in the on the truck and i wanted to add it so back up back up back up y'all this is real crafting okay i usually fast forward through all of this stuff but i've been getting comments that y'all want to see [Music] these things so i am going to be showing you a little bit more i'm going to cut this at 10 inches and so then i'm going to dovetail the ends of that just cut that off so let's see i may need to singe the edges of this of this one that one's fraying kind of coming unraveled a little just hold your flame be careful not to catch your ribbon on fire though yes that has happened to me and you're like oh my gosh oh my gosh i don't want to burn down my my house uh anyway so real life crafting here guys real live crafting okay so i like that i think i'm gonna put yes i think i'm gonna put another strand so cut that off at 10 inches i have my layered ribbon which i when i took my little tiny attacher so then now i'm going to take this this ribbon is from walmart so i'm going to layer those like that now i'm going to take the greenery put that back on top of there put this here and this here just kind of scrunch all of this together [Music] now i'm going to take my uh wire with my jingle bells and i'm just going to thread it through i thread it through like my middle finger and my ring finger and then i kind of position my jingle bells where i want them just kind of bring it around where it's kind of gathering it there you might need to position your ribbon just a little bit okay now one thing that helps me is some needle nose pliers you can get needle nose pliers at any um hardware store lowe's walmart anywhere so i think even the dollar tree sells some of these these are like a crafting must for my crafting and so i'm kind of holding it tense and kind of pulling it together where it kind of gathers in the middle so then i just kind of twist it so that it holds then i'm going to bring this wire back through the front so it kind of um you know looks there like it's coming out from the front it's kind of doing a dual purpose it's holding my ribbon and then also then i'm going to make some little curly cues with this so i'm going to take a very thin paintbrush because i want some thin curly cues and i'm just going to twist it around the paintbrush sometimes of the ends of those little wires um kind of stick out i take my needle nose pliers and i fold it over so that it gives it a nice finish like that so then let's do the other side and with the little thin brush like that you can really get in really close to the you know the end of those little jingle bells so see this is all funky so we don't want that let me cut that off because that was kind of coming unraveled so we do not want that on our project i think that looks good i don't even have to do anything with that and then just kind of fluff out your ribbons always fluff that's why we like to use wired ribbon the only ribbon that's not wired is this mixed media ribbon but it has enough form that if you use it with other ribbon it's going to look very nice just kind of bring out your ribbon tails so that you know all of them are seen okay guys i totally forgot to include the burlap from the dollar tree and i want to add that because it adds so much pizzazz to my little project so what i did is i just untwisted the jingle bells and since nothing was glued there was no problem so then now i'm gonna start over and i will show you how i layered it including that burlap from the dollar tree do [Music] [Music] [Music] do hey guys it's tracy i am excited to share this little primitive country rustic christmas tree that i made a couple of years ago now it is getting um some views and i've been getting some messages on it just kind of asking some details and so i wanted to share it again just to show how cute you can make these little tabletop trees now i had uh this paper mache box is a 7x7 box the tree is a three foot tall tree and i probably got it maybe like at walmart or something like that but i want to share how cute i made this little rustic primitive country christmas tree i have it in my kitchen i keep it up all year long it's on top of my refrigerator and i love it uh so much and i hope that you do too now the three foot tree inside the paper mache uh paper mache box is something that i had that i wanted to finish the paper mache box is seven by seven i just painted it a maroon and just hand lettered faith hope love and simplify on the box i am using some green ties from the dollar tree to give my tree a bit more fullness now i know it really you can't see here in the pictures but yes it does add a lot of fullness also to add a bit of whimsicness as well as some filler i like to use this decorative excelsior i like to get this from either joanne's or amazon there are some stores that do sell it but it's a little more chunky i like the finer excel sear i just stick it in the tree to give a bit more uh fullness i'm adding some flocking and i'm gonna i don't want the you know the scattering of it so i'm just using some white paint and a stencil brush and just brushing on the branches just to add a snowy effect now for the fun part i'm going to decorate my little primitive country tree with some berries i love my berries these maroon berries i got from hobby lobby i just took them apart and just hot glued them in the strands on the the stems branches of the trees just sticking them in and then for the pit berries i had this garland i just untwist the berries and when you untwist them they kind of come out in like you know little clumps or little um groups like this and so then if it's if the stem is too long i clip it off and then just stick it in there and it kind of looks a hot mess here but it really is not and then once i get all of my other embellishments on it just ties everything together just to add a bit more texture i have this pine i just took apart and just glued it in the tree as well as these burlap stems now i got these over at walmart i got them early in the season probably like in august or september i just took them apart and i just stuck them uh glued them into the tree to add um some dimension and a bit more character it just all ties everything together for these little trees you can just stick them and create so many different designs to match your style now i'm going to add some of this a rustic ribbon this i get at hobby lobby and i'm not cutting it i'm just you know twisting it around the branches and um just twisting it and twirling it in or intertwining it in the tree and you know until i like like the fullness of it and yeah i'm really loving the way that this tree turned out the next embellishment i'm adding this 7 8 inch buffalo czech ribbon this is also from hobby lobby and i cut my strips at six inches and then i just tied them on each of the branches just sporadically where i wanted them to just so that everything looks all nice and neat i just love how my little rustic primitive country tree is turning out just looking at all of the pitbury goodness and the curlicues of the burlap and the buffalo check ribbon just makes my heart just happy happy happy okay my primitive country tree would not be complete without these rusty jingle bells now these are 30 millimeter or 30 mm um jingle bells that i got from hobby lobby several years ago i'm not sure if they carry this size anymore but i was fortunate to find some when i did i just i use some wire i like to use the wire from uh dollar tree in the automotive section and i just um tie them on to the branches and so you can't hear it but i was uh you know jingling the tree uh but that's what i'm doing here just kind of showing you i just kind of tied them on those branches so that they kind of you know hang off kind of like more ornament style i don't glue them on because i have been known to glue the little jingle inside and you know then my tree doesn't jingle a farmhouse tree would not to be complete without some cotton balls so what i did is um i got that those cotton bowls from hobby lobby as well it's my favorite store and i just you know took off some of those bowls and just put them just stuck them hot glued them into the tree um for you know just my cute little design this lazy susan guys i did get at amazon uh if you are interested in that but i love you know pulling it out for projects like this you know or when i'm painting something so that i can paint uh you know turn it and paint around um my you know i'm a raffia person not everybody is but i just tied some raffia at the top uh kind of like you know what my star is but hobby lobby does have the large two and a half inch stars that you could definitely put on top now would be the time to include some lights if uh one would choose to add lights you always add those on your tree last [Music] from the dollar tree i just took off all of the tinsel and then i cut off the nubs that were around the plastic frame to give it a bit more thickness i used some quilt batting this is just a personal preference because i wanted my santa hat to be a bit more thicker and so i just cut out you know the shape of it just added it to the frame it gives it a little bit more stability to cover the top of my santa hat i'm using this 10 inch decorative fabric now i picked this up from walmart and i am just going to hot glue that just position it on the hat just kind of tucking and folding and gluing as i go around just to make sure that everything is nice and neat to add the ruffles to the uh brim of the hat i'm using this burlap now this burlap is from walmart and um i've seen it in several stores so it is the same one that's in walmart i cut my burlap seven inches in length and then i just used a ruffle technique just gathering them in the center using a pipe cleaner and then just tying them on to my santa brim now i'll just continue to do this until i get the thickness in the fullness that i want i'm not sure how many bundles this is i don't work like that i just keep adding until i like the look of it and then i stop once i'm finished putting all of my little ruffles on the brim of the hat this is how full it looks you can put as many or as little as you would like i'm just going to show you here this is the leftover from the roll of burlap the burlap is from walmart so i put mine on pretty close together and pretty tight because i wanted wanted the brim to be pretty full so what i'm showing you here is um my the back of my little frame um you know where the schnell stems and stuff were i'm just covering that up but i discovered when i'm putting on my bows that i shouldn't have covered them up yet so i'm going to have to show you what i do to get my little bow on there so now i'm going to show you my my big bow this is my terry bow that i created using my pro bow the hand in the description of this video i do have a link to a video tutorial where i created um a larger terry bow and i use the same technique i just did it on a smaller scale and how you achieve that is by putting the fingers or the little dowels in the circles and that will give you the size bow that you want to make to attach my bow to the top of my santa hat i'm just using my paper piercer and just threading it through the top of the hat you know through the back just twisting it and attaching it to the back then i'll use a little piece of burlap to cover up that wire so that it doesn't poke or you can see it where it looks um you know more finished now i'm just going to make some rustic bows for the brim of the hat i've already made two and then i'm going to show the third one here with you so these little one and a half inch ribbons are cut at eight inches and then this red and black buffalo check this ribbon is from hobby lobby and i am just going to make a simple little bow here and those those loops are approximately three inches or three inch loops so now i have my little tiny attacher it's just a little bitty stapler that helps secure the ribbon so that i can hold it all together and then you know so i can put it together and make a cute little bow that little tiny attacher i get questions about it a lot there is a link in the description below if you would like to see it up close um and or you can buy them at the craft store they're in the scrapbooking section so then now i'm just going to continue to build my bow and the um base of my bow is the buffalo check and then i'm just going to layer on my burlap ribbons and then topping it with the one and a half inch buffalo check ribbon then i just have a chanel stem and i'm just going to secure that and then i am going to discover that oh my goodness you have glued the back onto your santa hat so uh now i'm like okay i'm just going to thread through here and find the frame and so no worries it just takes me a little bit because i don't want to pull off the back or you know kind of pull the ribbon apart so i am just maneuvering through there finding that um part of that santa hat and i'm just going to twist that ribbon on there so no worries the finishing touch is this a black jute i found this over at hobby lobby in the rope section and uh so i'm just going to tie this off and then i will hot glue it to the top of that little buffalo check ribbon now i'm going to show you here shortly how am i going to hang this so what i've done is i take a little piece of brown jute string and i just make a little knot and then i'm going to at the very very top where i had already glued that wire or that ribbon down over that wire for my bow i'm just pulling that back up and i'm going to stick this in there down pretty far and then i make sure that that ribbon is really good and secured now i do get asked about these pink fingers it's some mod podge hot finger uh caps i will have a link in the description below because a lot of people don't have access to the craft stores [Music] okay what i have created here is some rustic christmas trees using those tree forms from the dollar tree now i know that these little tree forms sell out so quick and so many of you have shared them over in the country charm community as well as sent me private messages asking where can i get more of these tree forms because you saw my rustic trees that i did last year here on my channel i took some tree forms from the dollar tree as well as dollar general and created these adorable little trees i will have it linked in the description below as well as in the i card now i want to let you in on a little secret that green tree is using a wooden star from the dollar tree what i did is i just took off the points of the little star and created a little christmas tree out of it okay so i made sure that one of the tips that i was going to cut off on that star is that that's one that had the hole in it because i didn't want a hole in my tree and so then what i did is put some shelf liner i like to use this for my projects and you know just kind of help stabilize it so my mat doesn't move and then i have a box cutter from the dollar tree i was kind of struggling with it just a little bit um so i am just you know taking off those two tips i have my sanding little block from the dollar tree as well and just sand off any parts of the tree that you know need to come off and i just love the little shape of it and the little tree turned out really cute these are the scrapbook paper i'm using they're both from hobby lobby and paper studio brand now i just traced out the tree form now i know this green one is an eight and a half by eleven sheet i didn't see any of the twelve by twelves in this green and i really wanted to use that for my tree so um you could use the you know extra you could glue that on there or mod podge that on there or i'm not worried about it because that rusty star is going to cover it anyway so just doing the same thing with the red and black buffalo check i'm just cutting out you know with my scissors and just a tip if you move your paper and not your scissors you have a cleaner cut and it just helps a little bit so before i mod podge on um you know to these wooden trees i want to paint them i'm using moss green for the green and crimson red for the red and black one and i just go ahead and paint um a bit of the you know around the edges and then as well as the back uh yeah you know should have used a larger brush but i didn't feel like pouring it out on a you know on my plate or anything so you know i just did it the hard way anyway so um now i'm doing the same thing with the red and what i decided on that tree is i decided to cut off the trunk of the tree so i didn't paint that and i probably you know if i would have thought about it before i would have cut that off before i painted it but it all worked out so just using some mod podge i just put a thin layer of mod podge on the little wooden tree and then i take my paper and i smooth that out with my squeegee getting any of the excess out i like excess mod podge i just use a little baby wipe to uh get out uh or to clean off my little scraper and um i don't put a layer of mod podge on top of my project until the bottom is completely dry that helps alleviate the bubbles [Music] and i found on this black and red buffalo check that some of the edges didn't stick down too good so i just reinforced them with a little bit of mod podge okay these are all the trims that i'm using for my tree when i start working with them i will tell you exactly what store i got them from now this trim right here came from walmart this little jute um with the little i don't know lace cording and then those two came from walmart as well back in the fabric section this one right here came from hobby lobby and so what i'm going to do is use this one first there's no really rhyme or reason i just wanted something that i could glue on there that would kind of mask those um points from that tree so just using some hot glue i'm just going to put a bead of hot glue on there and then just glue my little trim to that [Music] so [Music] do [Music] i just love how this little tree is coming together with all the little trims then now i have these little pit berries with the mini jingle bells it comes on a little strand like this over at joann's i got them over at joann's anyway i just cut them and just glued them on the sides there i did not wrap them all the way around i actually just formed it around the edge just hot glued it in place and kind of curled it around my finger a little bit so that it would all you know look really cute now this ribbon is also from joanne's and i'm just making a simple little bow and i just put it on the edges and that kind of helps cover up any of the hot glue that may be showing i just made a knot in the middle and just trimmed off the uh the ends and then just hot glued that then in the middle i will um tie on a little bow [Music] i found this pack of wood slices over at hobby lobby i used my 40 off coupon i'm going to use that as well as a 12 inch uh wooden dowel uh the 3 8 inch is the size that these dowels are and what i'm showing you here is i am going to drill a 3 8 inch hole so that i can fit my dowel in there so that my little tree will stand up here are my rusty stars now these are three dimensional and i want them to be flat so i just put them on my table and just took my palm and just flattened them out so that they would lay flat and uh you know that just what is what works for my little project here um i just hot glued them at the top i did the same thing with this red and black uh buffalo check i just decided to use the tassels uh on the buffalo check because i didn't want to overdo the tree i just glued the rusty star on the top of that [Music] i painted the dowels brown and then just glued them into the little wood slice to make sure that they stand up i added some excelsior to the wood slices because i thought that it gave it a little decorative touch as well as some greeneries and some red berries to the red and black buffalo check i added the black and white ribbon it is a 5 8 inch ribbon and i added a little bow to that rusty star on the green tree i just snowman deco mesh wreath using some cute little ribbons a snowman from the dollar tree i doodled him up i will share how i did that and what supplies i used to create this cutie patootie these are the supplies i used a 14 inch wreath form and the snowman is from the dollar tree i have some red mesh some snowball mesh some black and white buffalo check mesh as well as some 21 inch white mesh these ribbons uh the red and black buffalo check as well as the black and white buffalo check are both from hobby lobby the snowman ribbon is something that i had in my stash um but you can get that at you know like hobby lobby or different craft stores or i like trendy tree the wreath shop maybe craft outlet that kind of thing i'm also using some little frosted sticks that have jingle bells on them now we got those at market for the um shop that i designed wreaths for but you can get them again as at like at hobby lobby michaels joanne's anywhere those type of things are sold and also online trendy tree the wreath shop somewhere like that this is my favorite way to do mesh wreaths i have a 14 inch wreath form and i take some pipe cleaners i cut them in half so then i can have a little bit more to work with i'm going to work on the inner ring i just twist one of the pipe cleaners around the inner ring and then i take my mesh i gather it and i then i just twist it around um one or two times just to you know secure it and then i measure out um 10 inches and that is what this poof is and then i go to the outer ring and i do the same thing i twist that on there and then i'll measure out 10 inches and then i'll go to the inner ring and i will just twist it on that and then i'll just continue to do that go to the outer ring um and twist it on there so it kind of goes in out and out so it's an inner ring out a ring inner ring out of ring until i come back to where i started and then i have the first layer of my mesh and it's inner ring outer ring inner ring outer ring and then i'll continue to layer from there i have two rolls of 10 inch mesh one is a white snowball mesh one is the black in white buffalo check i rolled those out on my mat and then i take my rotary cutter and i cut them both at the same time just to save time and i cut them at 10 inches each and then i will just kind of roll them into a ruffle um or a tube i don't really kind of like have a name for it i just like tuck the ends under and then i crisscross them make a kind of like an x out of them and then that is what i will put um into those ties that i already have on the wreath that i secured the white 21 inch mesh with so i decided to add some 10 inch black mesh i just cut it the same way just cut it at 10 inches and then just rolled it up and just secured it to the edges of around the outer ring of the uh wreath and i think that it just added the extra fullness that i was looking for it just pulls out some of the colors from the snowman and the ribbons and that kind of thing so you know that's what i do i just kind of step back and i see what is needed and i just add to it and continue to layer until i like the fullness i cut my ribbons at 12 inches each and i dovetailed the buffalo check red and black as well as the black and white i dovetailed those the snowman i decided to leave straight um because i didn't want to take away from the cuteness of the little snowman now these are the glittery black chanel stems that i'm going to use i got these like at dollar tree probably during halloween or something like that but i think i thought they would be perfect for this little wreath and so i just cut those in half and then that is what i'm going to use to attach my ribbons to now how i layer my ribbons is i have the black and white buffalo check the red and black buffalo check i put those in an x and then i put my snowman on top of that i'm just kind of make you know just kind of layer those as you can see here um i put my black in or my buffalo czech ribbons and then i kind of put my snowman at a plus sign so that you can really see the buffalo check ribbons and then you can see the snowman ribbons and i try to um caddy corn caddy corner them or offset them so that the ribbons are not all going the same way you can definitely do that that's just not my style i know that there are a lot of wreath people that are cringing because that's how they teach you but it all boils down to personal preference so whichever way you want your ribbons to go there's no right or wrong way to do it it's just whatever you like i wanted some more red to pull out from the jingle bells on the frosted twigs so i have some six inch mesh here and i cut two um little they're like six inch little strips and i just rolled them into a tube and i just made an x out of them and then i'm this ribbon right here is from craft outlet i just made a bow and i cut it straight i didn't dovetail those because i like uh to leave these straight i used my tiny attacher a little stapler to hold that in the middle so that i could gather everything together i will have a link in the description below if you would like to check that out in my amazon store to get the details then i take the red mesh and the black and white bow and i attach that to the wreath with those black chanel stems going in between the snowman and buffalo check bundles i just kind of have all of the black and white tails pointing to the outside of the wreath so that it would lay nicely and then uh for my snowman this snowman is from the dollar tree and i thought he was a little plain so i took some white paint and i doodled up around him uh just using a two number two liner and then i also took some orange puffy paint and i squiggled the nose i added some fine glitter the fine glitter is martha stewart and i just sprinkled that on there while it was wet so then i would let that dry added some cute little eyelashes with my ultra fine black sharpie marker i also added some freckles which got a little glitter on them because they were still wet from my black puffy paint um i glued the jingle bell frosted twigs in the wreath and attached the sign i used the hole at the top of the hat i used one hole and then i drilled two more holes at the bottom of the little snowman kind of where the scarf was and i attached it to the wreath with some chanel stems i glued what i could of the snowman to the mesh so that it would all it was all secured and that is how simple it is to make a little snowman deco mesh wreath you

Channel: Country Charm by Tracy

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Keywords: crafts, seasonal crafts, dollar tree, primitive, holiday crafts, DIY, easy crafts, dollar store, rustic country crafts, country crafts, rustic diy, country charm by tracy, country charm tracy, country crafts by tracy, doodling and squiggles, splatter paint, tole painting, dollar tree diy, how to make a wreath, deco mesh wreaths, how to make deco mesh wreaths, country craft ideas, rustic christmas, rustic christmas crafts

Id: 0i86_wGed58

Length: 192min 45sec (11565 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 04 2021