We had so much fun putting together our Michaels Dream Tree this year. We made or embellished almost all the ornaments and trimmings we used on it and had a great time doing it.
01. Tis The Season Garland
From the comments we received about our tree… the thing that most people seemed to really like was the “Tis the Season” garland. The good news is, it took less than 30 minutes to make!!
SUPPLIES: (all found at Michaels)
• wood letters
• gold elastic ribbon
• white paint and paint brush
• hot glue gun
• we watered down our white paint and gave a quick white wash over our wood letters
• space out your letters and words how you want them
• use a hot glue gun to attach the gold ribbon to the backs of all the letters
• make a loop on the ends and tie a knot.
• hang!
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02. Christmas Tree Basket
One of my most favorite parts of this years tree is the basket we put it in!!
The hardest part was finding a basket that the tree stand would fit in, but once we found one we were good to go. We just placed it inside the basket and added the tree like normal. Then we took some burlap and put it around the tree to cover up the stand.
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03. Gold Lettered Wood Planks
These wood planks seem to be pretty popular right now. So we had to find a way to incorporate them into our tree decor.
SUPPLIES:
• small wood planks
• white acrylic paint
• gold vinyl
• paintbrush
• Paint a white oval in the center of your plank
• Using our Silhouette, we cut some Christmas related words out with the gold vinyl, then used some transfer paper to adhere the words to our planks (font used : Coneria Script)
• Then we just nestled them in between the branches on our tree
We’ll be sharing how we made the rest of our ornaments soon!
Have you seen all the Dream Trees from this year yet?
Click HERE to visit Michaels Dream Tree Pinterest Board.
[Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Michaels – we were provided with a tree and a gift card – all thoughts and opinions are our own]
I'm Jen Sedillo, one of the bloggers behind Eighteen25. I love creating and crafting, reading good books, visiting new places and being with family!
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wow-I may have to add an extra tree in the house "just for me"…we already usually have 3 trees but what's one more lol??? Love all the deer and the gold
That's beautiful. Good idea using the basket to cover the stand.
Boom. HANDS DOWN the cutest of the Dream Trees!! LOVE!
i love your tree!!!!! i love the idea of the words in the tree, i've always wanted to do this but afraid the letters would burn (paper?), but wood, genius. Thank you for the inspiration!
Where did you get your basket? We are looking for one that holds 20" stand. Thank you! Super cute!!
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The basket is from Michaels too.
I wish I would have known this cute idea before we set up the tree this year!