CHRISTMAS CARD DECORATION

This is going to be just a quick little post about

an easy Christmas gift project...

I wanted to come up with a little homemade gift so I went

searching in my craft drawers and this is what I came up with...

...first, I had these stacks or wooden boards, or slats I think they

are officially called in the craft stores....you can buy them pretty much

anywhere that sells craft items...and they are inexpensive...I bought mine

a couple of packs at a time over the years so I have had a good supply

on hand...

...when I picked these up I also bought bags of different sized

wooden pieces...so I took all of these and started thinking about what

I could do with them for Christmas...

then I remembered the boxes of left-over Christmas cards

that we had accumulated over the years and went to work cutting those

to fit on the slats....

then I used these board shapes...

...after I cut the Christmas cards to fit the board I Mod Podged

them onto it and let it dry well...

...I glued the mini popsicle stick to the center of both the

top and bottom edges of the picture...after it dried I painted them and

the edge of the boards that were showing alongside of them...

...next I glued the longer stick to the top of the board in the back

just to put a little finishing look on it...I painted that the same

color as the popsicle sticks...

After everything dried well I mixed some fine silver glitter into Mod Podge

and covered the entire thing with it....it dried with a very nice glittery

look but you can still clearly see the picture on the card....

...I then finished them off by gluing a hanger of jute cord with a couple

silver beads on it....you could use ribbon or any other kind of hanger

that you prefer...I used this because I wanted them to have a little bit of

a country Christmas look to them...

...after everything was good and dry I glued a little button to the

middle of the top popsicle stick to add to the country look...

...here is the final result...

I hope this is not too confusing...it really is a simple

little gift to make...the most time consuming part of it

is waiting for the paint, glue and Mod Podge to dry...

otherwise it's easy to make...

I think considering it was a last-minute idea it turned

out pretty good !

.....Merry Christmas....