Christmas Tree Shaker Decoration By Sammy

By Creating With Wendy -

Christmas Tree Shaker Decoration
By Sammy
Hello Everyone,

For the month of December I am going to take a back seat in making or creating any projects for Aunty Vera and let my grandson Sammy have free rein of the creative projects. Sammy, aged 7 yrs old, has been wanting to create something for Aunty Vera for a few months now and I thought during the month of December would be a great time for him to show us what he can do and have fun making some Christmas projects.I did supervise as he wanted to use the hot glue gun and cutting blade and I was very surprised how great he used them...

Samuels' first project was to decorate and put together this shaker tree shaped decoration from Clearscraps. The first thing he did was to trace aroung the base of the tree on to the green piece of card from the Echo Park Corordinating cardstock pack. He then used scissors to cut the tree shape out.




He then used a wet glue to paste the cut out tree shape card on the base.


He then grabbed the two centre edging pieces and glued them together and waited for them to dry.


After the glue had dried, he painted the edges of the two pieces he glued together a purple (why??....because it's nanny's favourite colour...lol) and then he painted the front edge piece in two shades of green, a dark to lighter green.









Only the very outer edge was painted on the two pieces that make up the center of the shaker.



****************************************
While Sammy was waiting for the paint to dry, he had to grab out the awesome pens Aunty Vera had sent him and have himself a draw.
He thinks these pens are the 'so very best' to draw with!!
Thank you Aunty Vera xox

*****************************************

So, when the paint was dry Sammy glued a piece of string on the top of the base piece.


He then glued the center pieces on top of the base, making sure to loop the string to the top, so he can hang his tree. He also used a coule of strong clamps to hold the pieces together until the glue dried.


Sammy found a present sticker and put it on the base piece.

When the glue had dried he added the clear and green jewel and sequins from Jillibean in the center of the framed tree. He then added glue to the top flat edge and placed the clear acrylic piece on and then glued on the top piece he painted two toned green.



Placed a couple of clamps on the edges and let dry.


To finish off his Shaker tree decoration, he used some glue glitter from nans' supplies and added it to the front edges.



Sammy loves the way his Shaker Tree Ornament turned out and can't wait to place it on his own Christmas tree.


Message from Sammy....
I hope you like my project. I'm gonna put it on my tree...and nan tell them..."you can buy it from Aunty Vera and she will send it to them."

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

FLOW-ISH JOURNALS are addictive!!

By Creating With Wendy -
Image
Recently I joined a swap at our Australian Art Swap Group on facebook where we had to put together a flow-ish Journal. I absolutely love putting these together as it gives me a chance to use up a lot of papers and items I have been hoarding. A flow-ish journal is based on the Flow magazines and books with the intent that everything inside can be pulled out and used by another person in their own art works or projects. Below are a few pictures and videos of me showing you through the ones I have put together. Once I start one, I seem to want to keep making them. Todate, I think I have put together at leadt five of these types of journals and sent them to friends and swap partners. This Flow-ish journal is the one I made for the swap. The cover was a real estate guide booklet and I decided to decorate it, to make it look a little prettier. It is full of patterned papers, die cuts, tissue paper, handmade envelopes and pockets filled with odds and ends, that I thought the recipient w...
Read more

Artist Trading Card Holder- My Island Home

By Creating With Wendy -
Image
 ATC HOLDERS This is a very fast and easy project. I used my the leftover image pieces from the Sweeping Plains Papers to decorate a few Artist Trading Card Holders. Each made holder can store eight ATC's.The base of the holder is made from cardstock I had in my own supplies and the pockets that hold the ATCs, I made from a manilla folder. The Base Cut your cardstock to 11" x 3". Then score at 2 1/2", 3 1/4", 7" and 7 3/4"/ Fold on score lines. The Pockets Cut your manilla folder to 6" x 4". You will need to cut and make eight pockets. Score with long side up at 2 3/4" and 5 1/2". Then turn once with short side up and score at 1/2". Fold along score lines. Cut the small square off the bottom corner and then cut from 2 3/4 score line to edge, taking off  the long 1/2" panel. Use your double sided Ranger LetterIT tape and place on the botton flap and the side flap. Fold over score lines to make your pocket. I used a 1" ...
Read more

Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft Creative Project

By Creating With Wendy -
Image
Hello Everyone, Today I was still in the mood to play with the wonderful paper from Photo Play and wanted to do a project that was fun, easy and quick. I searched Pinterest for a free downloadable  heart box  template and was quite surprised to find one straight off the bat. What you will need for this cute heart treat box: *a free printable from pinterest *a cropodile *Blazing Red Stazon ink *Photo Play Crazy for you paper *Elements sticker sheet called Wild Love *double sided tape *some thread or twine for decoration *small brads to attach handles *small piece of cheese cloth or fabric  Then I used the template to cut the shape from The Photo Play 'Crazy for you' paper and folded the paper on the marked fold lines and that gave the shape of the heart box. I inked the edges of the heart box shape with the Stazon Blazing Red Ink and was now ready to decorate the front and back of the heart. I decorated the heart shapes before I folded and adhered the box t...
Read more