More Winter Churches

Like I mentioned in my last post, I have these wood slices from tree branches that I have to find a use for.  After looking through my crafting stash, I came across a few glittered churches from the Dollar Tree that I picked up last year.  All I had to do to create a wintery scene was to apply a little hot glue to the bottom of the church, add a few bottle brush trees and sprinkle the piece with a little artificial snow.

I liked it so much, I decided to make two.

I'm sure you'll agree that they came out looking adorable.  The perfect little piece to place under a glass cloche.

 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS!

Recently, the organization I volunteer with commissioned the Rebuilding Exchange to slice tree branches collected from the City's tree trimming operations into disks.  The intention was to use the disks as pendants for children to stamp animal prints on as part of a park event.  Well, the event got canceled due to stormy weather and we were left with a number of disks.

One of the other volunteers who was familiar with my crafting suggested that I might want to incorporate some of the disks into a project.  It's then that I realized the disks would make the perfect foundation for the little paper Christmas churches I had planned to make as decor.

I painted the tops with a clear matte varnish, added dabs of snowy white paint here and there, dusted on some sparkly glass glitter added a few bottle brush trees and wah-lah.  A darling, rustic, wintery Christmas church. 

This little church scenes will look adorable sitting on a  stack of old books, a tabletop, pedestal or shelf.   The best part, they're not so Christmassy that they can't be used
throughout the winter season.