I have been looking for a cute way to display Christmas cards and once Christmas is over I can hang family pictures on it. Robert's makes it so easy by selling these old wooden frames then just hammer in some nails and string some twine across it.
I was looking for a tree skirt and found a few beautiful ruffled ones
on Etsy but they were $65-$120. I was so tempted to buy one but I found
the same one on Pinterest and decided I'd give it a try. The
instructions ask for linen fabric but it is about $14/yard so I used a
cotton that was on sale for $1.99/yard. I used duck canvas for the
bottom. It was about $25 for the fabric and glue sticks. It was a pretty
simple project it just took a lot of time. About 30 minutes to cut the
canvas and then cut the cotton into 2 in wide strips and another 2.5
hours to hot glue on all the strips. When I started I almost wished that
I had just bought one but once i was finished I decided it was totally
worth it. It is a little big for our little tree but hopefully we will
have a bigger one by next year. The instructions are below.
I used 3 different blogs to get instructions and pictures for the tree skirt project.
http://www.thiscasita.com/2011/11/diy-ruffle-skirt.html
http://mycrazylife-lauren.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-pinned-it-i-did-it-ruffled-tree-skirt.html
http://www.hgtv.com/handmade/how-to-make-a-no-sew-ruffled-christmas-tree-skirt/index.html
I've been totally wanting to do one of the boards. I love them. I like those ones or the ones with chicken wire! We should get together soon and do a craft.
ReplyDeleteI want to make them both! I don't know if I could make that tree skirt though. We need to make some advent calendars too! Also, your Xmas cards are cute and almost look like ours! We both have good style. Haha. I mailed them yesterday, so be on the lookout!
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