Christmas Crafts

 Though I'm not what you would call an artist,  I manage to get joy from exercising my creative juices, though limited that they are.  And there's no better time that I like to craft than for Halloween and Christmas.  Especially Christmas because I get to use glitter without limit. And I LOVE glitter.

I've been confined to being home this week not because of the cool weather but because my grand daughter's class was quarantined and my daughter was limited as to how many days she could take off.

So, I took the time to start my Christmas crafting.  For the supplies I used most of what I had on hand.  Though I love all of the new die cuts by Mr. Holtz as well as other vendors, I just don't  have that kind of cash to spend.  So, with the exception of a few pieces I bought at the dollar store, all the paper, glitter and glue I already had on hand.

Most pieces incorporated wooden bases that I painted white to invoke the feeling of winter and to give the paper pieces some sturdiness.  All the cut files used are from Silhouette designers and some I tweaked a little.

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 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.