It's starting to look a little like Christmas...

I have started to decorate my new white Christmas tree...

With mini glass pinecones

Sequin bird and flocked baubles

Pearlised owls

Vintage Christmas tree decorations

Vintage inspired Christmas decorations

Toadstools

and some home made decorations...

Hand made felt birds

Paper rosettes

Glittered snowflakes

Pretty paper baubles

DIY vintage inspired baubles

Beaded snowflakes

I have a few more decorations to finish so must dash!
How are your trees looking?

Have a sweet day!

DIY vintage inspired baubles

Last week I showed you the vintage Christmas tree decorations that I bought from Sunbury antiques market and on Sunday I showed you the gorgeous vintage Christmas tree decorations from Citrus and Orange and Loretoidas. Inspired by all these vintage baubles I decided to paint cheap plastic silver baubles with nail polish and dust them in vintage glitter to match my Vintage Christmas theme. I love how the polish gives them a worn look but still gives them a little shimmer and is a great way to use up old nail polish! I was also lucky enough to find some old metal glitter in my craft boxes which adds to their vintage look. If you can't find metal glitter try using a course glitter instead.

Here's how...


DIY vintage inspired baubles

Tools and Materials

• Plastic silver baubles
• Nail polish
• PVA glue
• Course silver glitter
• Small paint brush

DIY vintage inspired baubles, How-to step by step

• Wrap washi tape round bauble
• Paint nail polish on to unmasked sections
• Hang to dry
• Brush PVA glue on to areas you wish to glitter.
• Sprinkle liberally with glitter, tap to remove excess.
• Hang to dry

Have a sweet day!

Paper Rosettes

The lovely peeps at new craft store Mushi Makes also sent me Tildas star tissue paper in grey brown. So to match my Vintage Christmas theme I have started making paper rosettes in the pretty tissue paper. Some to hang on my white Christmas tree and some smaller ones as cake toppers!

Here's how...


Paper Rosettes

Tools and Materials

• Tilda tissue paper grey brown stars
• Tonic studios accent punch- stars
• Gold embroidery thread
• Double sided sticky tape

Paper Rosettes, How-to step by step

• Start by cutting out a rectangle 25cm x 12cm from one sheet of tissue paper
• Make 1cm wide accordion folds, creasing the paper carefully with each fold.
• Using the accent star punch, carefully punch a star from each end
• Using a pair of scissors round the end edges of the paper

• Repeats steps 1-4 with a second sheet of tissue, and fold in half
• Stack the two folded sheets of paper on top of each other ( making sure the fronts face the same way) and tie embroidery thread round centre
• Place a piece of double sided tape on one side
• Affix the thread so the ends stick out the top

• Fold the two halves together
• Repeat by placing a piece of double sided tape on one open side
• Fold the two halves together
• Repeat till the rosette is closed, tie loose ends of thread together

Have a sweet day!

Pretty paper baubles

The lovely peeps at new craft store Mushi Makes sent me a Tildas "Winter memories" paper pack . A beautiful pad of 24 double sided sheets of 230gsm acid and lignin free paper in seven different patterns, three of each plus three cut-out sheets. So to match my Vintage Christmas theme I made a bunch of pretty paper baubles dusted with coarse white glitter to hang on my white Christmas tree.
Here's how...


Pretty paper baubles

Tools and Materials

• Circle cutter
• Winter Memories paper stack
• Gold embroidery thread
• Glue gun
• PVA glue
• Course white glitter
• Small paint brush

Pretty paper baubles, How-to step by step

• Using the paper-mate cutters smallest circle, with the blade on the inner line
• Cut out two circles of paper from each printed sheet, so you have nine circles
• Fold all the circles of paper in half
• Stack circles on top of each other, Wrap a lenth of thread all the way around the stack, so that it runs along the fold. Tie ends together at top of bauble to secure.

• Fold and unfold paper sections, so paper starts to fan out
• Using a hot glue gun, place a dab of glue about 1/3 of the way up the top of the bauble, on the outside edge. Fold the facing flaps together and press to secure the glue.
• On the next circle along, place a dab of glue about 1/3 of the way from the bottom.
• Continue this all the way around, alternating high and low glue dabs.

• Once you've glued all the adjacent flaps together, knot ends of embroidery thread together to create a hanging loop
• Paint a line of glue on all the outside edges of the bauble
• Sprinkle glued edges with glitter, lightly tap to remove any excess
• Hang to dry

Have a sweet day!

Citrus and Orange's Vintage Christmas tree ornaments

This week on Flickr Faves Sunday, I bring you some more gorgeous Vintage Christmas decorations, this time from Citrus and Orange. To see more of Susana's beautiful work check out her blog, Citrus and orange.

Some beautiful shots from my Flickr favourites:

• The pretty painted Vintage baubles in My favourite
• The glitter decorated baubles in Vintage ornaments on my collection
• The multi coloured pinecones in Ornaments display
• The floral painted bauble in Vintage teacups for Christmas decor

Have a sweet day!

Vintage Christmas tree decorations

Yesterday morning I got up at the crack of dawn and headed over to Kempton Park Racecourse with Holly from Sourdough and Rye, for the wonderful twice monthly Sunbury Antiques market. It was packed full of great stalls, not too chilly and best of all not raining! On this particular visit I had one thing on my mind, Christmas decorations to match my colour palette and theme...

After carefully looking through boxes and boxes of vintage Christmas decorations, I picked...

A small shimmery turquoise bauble

A lovely turquoise blue pine cone hanging ornament

A vintage silver hanging toadstool

and last but not least a Vintage house ornament

From a few other stalls I also picked...

Three white wicker bird cages, to glitter or not?

Several 1940's clip candle holders, just need to find candles now!

and some wooden mouldings that reminded me of decorative baubles, so I bought three with the idea of decorating them.

Have a sweet day!

Pink glittery deer ornament

Over the past couple of weeks I have been working on some handmade Christmas decorations to fit in with my Winter Wonderland colour palette and theme. Next up is the pink glittery deer ornament to hang on my Christmas tree. I want to use lots of my Christmas tree decorations from last year but I also want to inject some pink colour into my decorations, so I painted and glittered some inexpensive craft deer ornaments pink.

Christmas decoration : Pink glittery deer ornament
Tools and Materials

• Wooden deer
• Pink Clematis tester pot of paint
• PVA glue
• Pink glitter
• Pink bakers twine
• Scissors
• Small paint brush

Pink glittery deer ornament, How-to step by step

Start by carefully painting the deer in pink paint using a small paint brush, ensuring to get into all the fret work, and leave to dry. Brush PVA glue onto painted deer and immediately sprinkle with pink glitter before the glue starts to dry. Tap string holding deer lightly to remove excess glitter and hang up to dry. Once dry, remove silver string and replace with pink and white bakers twine, securing the ends with a knot.

Tip
I hold my deer over a clean small plastic pot when sprinkling with glitter to catch any excess glitter so it can be reused.

Here are my hand painted glittered and marbled snowflakes from last year:

Glittered snowflakes

Glass marbled snowflakes

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Painted metal bird

To get the touch of silver sage green colour on my Winter Woodland Christmas tree, I am planning to hang a few pretty painted metal birds. This one usually hangs in my bird cage.



Have a sweet day!

Glass marbled snowflakes

Glass marbled snowflakes

What you will need
Plastic snowflakes
White paint
PVA glue
Tiny glass marbles
Embroidery thread

Instructions

1. Paint snowflakes, leave to dry
2. Paint PVA glue onto painted snowflake.
3. Sprinkle tiny glass marbles over snowflake and leave to dry.
4. Thread embroidery thread through hole.

I just had to try out my new tiny glass marbles on some of my cheap plastic snowflakes. I love how they turned out!





Have a sweet day!