hello everyone welcome back if you are new to my channel my name is Avril. in today's video
i'll be sharing with you how i decorated this beautiful farmhouse inspired christmas tree
along with a couple of diys incorporating my Australian native animal theme so stick around for
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so i started off this project by diying some wooden ornaments for this christmas tree
here i'm using some australian native animal wooden ornaments which i started
off by taking their original tags off at this stage you could use any type of
wooden ornaments that go with your theme or whatever you have already got in hand
now that i have taken the tags off it's time to give this ornament a coat of paint here i'm using
rust-oleum chalk paint in the color linen white i put on my gloves before i started painting
because i knew this was going to be a messy job because there were so many ornaments to be painted
at this stage you could choose to paint these ornaments in any color you wish
i was going for a more farmhouse theme so i chose to paint it in white
i gave one coat of paint on all of my wooden ornaments and set it aside to dry
now my ornaments are dry and it's ready for its next step
here you see me using a 80 grit sandpaper to slightly sand all of my wooden ornaments
once i was done sanding all of my ornaments i then took a damp rag and wiped them down clean once i
was done wiping down all of my wooden ornaments i then separated my ornaments into two sections
now that i have separated my ornaments into two i decided to silver leaf my first set of ornaments
here you see me using mud pods to glue down the silver flakes onto my wooden ornaments
i repeated this process onto the remaining wooden ornaments and set it aside to dry while my silver
leaf ornaments were drying i started off on my next set of ornaments so for this set of ornaments
i decided to go ahead and stamp some words on each ornament to reflect the true meaning of christmas
this was so simple and easy to do all i did was use my clear stamps with
meaningful words and stamped it onto my ornaments
at this stage guys you could make this more personal by adding names of your family members
once i was done with all of my wooden animals i then took
a silver string and then tied a tag on each one of my wooden animals this is how it turned out guys i
love how unique and personalized these christmas ornaments turned out hope you guys like it too
for this next project i thought i would share with you a fun and easy way
to transform an ordinary tray into a cookie tray for center
all you need is an old tray and some paint
here i'm using a water-based primer which i've already got in hand which i then gave two generous
coats of paint to the entire tray and set it aside to dry once my tray was all dry and ready for its
next step i then used a 80 grit sandpaper and sanded the entire tray to get my distressed look
afterwards i used the damp rag and wiped it down clean
then using a measuring tape i marked down the center of my tray
afterwards using my cricut maker i created some
designs to go with my santa cookie tray and stuck it onto my tray
at this stage guys however if you do not have a cricut maker you could always stencil down
these words using a stencil or even if you have beautiful handwriting you could draw it in
so this is how my santa cookie tray turned out guys hope you guys like it
now we are ready to put this christmas tree together and get this look
so first of all we need to prepare our garlands for our christmas tree
here i'm using a berry garland along with some deco mesh which i'll be then wrapping around the
garland to get my desired look once you're done wrapping the deco mesh along your garland this
is how it should look i had to use five of these garlands to wrap around the entire christmas tree
now all five of my garlands are ready to be wrapped around my tree
i started off by wrapping my garland from the top of my tree and worked myself to the bottom
i repeat to this process with all five of my garlands attaching them together at the end of
each garland once i'm done putting my garlands on my tree it's time to start decorating it
here i'm using some silver tree picks which i'll be then randomly placing it all over
my christmas tree afterwards using all of my wooden animals which i prepared earlier
i'll be randomly hanging them on my tree as well
next i thought of using some silver ponsitas which i've got in hand
to give this tree a bit of texture
afterwards i decided to use some koala clips which i've already got in hand
to stay with my australian native animal theme that i was going after
i placed these crawlers randomly on my tree as well next using some wooden signs
which i've already got in hand i place them in between the branches of my tree
afterwards i finished it off by placing my silver star on top of my tree afterwards i placed santa's
cookie tray underneath the tree and then placed some cookies milk and carrots for the reindeer
so this is how my farmhouse inspired christmas tree turned out hope you guys like it
okay guys that's it for today hope you got inspired and enjoyed watching this video
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