12 Days of Ornaments:Day#9

 Welcome to Day # 9 , Lynette Chiles here today sharing another handmade ornament. Miss Tracy designed this amazing "Junk Tree" for her latest Picker's Retreat. I assisted her on the retreat and made one of my own too. These beauties inspired my ornament creation featured today!

Designed by: Tracy Pounds

Designed by: Lynette Chiles
                     

I love miniature things! After Miss Tracy created the Shutter Angels last year it came to mind that you could use a miniature shutter from a dollhouse and create miniature Shutter Angels....So we did. Again, I thought we could miniaturize the Junk Trees. Smaller surface and smaller junk.

Here are my Miniature Tree Ornaments...

Now for a surface...Small wooden plaque, paper mache rectangular ornament (available at LBH) or even a small canvas. We have recently gotten in small "junk" ...fun little trinkets and treasures at The Little Blue House. These trinkets are perfect to create this ornament!

Don.t you just love them? Let's get started.

Supplies:

Surface - small wooden plaque, paper mache' rectangular ornament, or small canvas.

Acrylic Paint - The metallic paints such as Espresso and Champagne look great.

Printed paper, text, music paper, etc. if you choose to add paper to your surface

Mod Podge if you are using paper

Eye Screw if using wooden plaque Paper Mache' Ornament already has a hanger

AND Junk ---- Lots of Junk

E6000 for attaching metal

Scotch Quick Dry Glue for attaching wood.

Changing the color of your metal pieces. : metallic acrylic paint, Distress Paint, or alcohol inks.

Paint your surface the color of your choice. Add paper with mod podge if you choose. Lay all of your "junk" pieces out. Start at the bottom with a piece that resembles a tree trunk. Then start with your longest piece and graduate to shorter pieces until you reach the top. Top your tree with a star, gears, flowers, etc.

Note : E6000 needs to dry 24 hours. Also it tends to slide, so keep a check on it for the first few hours.



 Hope you have fun creating your own
 "JUNK" TREE ORNAMENTS!

 Be sure to comment so you can be entereed into our drawing to WIN one of my JUNK TREE Ornaments. Share with us today what you top your tree with? I have an angel that came from Hallmark many, many years ago.

Thanks for reading!

Lynette

CONGRATULATIONS to the DAY #8 WINNER:

Ashley Hansen

Please contact the LBH to claim your ornament