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Hi! I'm Tiffany Windsor.
The holidays are fast approaching but there's still time to create some fun
quick and easy holiday decorations. For this project I'm using my Aleene's Turbo
Tacky Glue.
Now this dries stronger and
faster so it's perfect for this project.
I found this 100% wool felt
that will make a beautiful background for my wall hanging or door hanging
and it's available in many different colors
And, I wanted to give it more stability so I'm going to be gluing it onto this cork
that comes in a roll.
In order to apply my Aleene's Turbo Tacky
I'm going to use a squeegee
which is just
a piece of cardboard
or
an expired gift card,
and you just squeegee
your glue onto the cork.
Be sure when applying your glue that you get it all the way to the edges because you
want that
felt to be secure along all the edges.
Next I'm going to line it up
with a couple of straight edges
and just press
that wool felt in place.
I love using the wool felt, it's very
luxurious, the colors are beautiful. You could use regular felt for this project
but I love the look of the wool felt.
Press it down securely
and go ahead and cut off the excess cork.
While the glue is drying on the background,
we can take
our second piece of
our wool felt
to start cutting out the trees.
I've cut my tree patterns from plain white copy paper
and I've cut them in different sizes to fit onto the background.
You can just lay your patterns out
and
just cut along the edge, these don't have to be exact so you can just hold them
in place.
I have cut out all three of my felt trees and be sure and save the extra felt.
These can be used for your needle felting projects or other crafting
projects.
Take your Aleene's Turbo Tacky Glue
and apply glue along the edges
so that you can glue your Christmas trees down
onto your background.
Also in the needle felting department you'll find these little embellishments
these little circles
that are all ready to go
that will make some fun
ornaments for our trees.
Apply your Aleene's Turbo Tacky to the back and just glue these in place.
I also took some of these
and
opened them up...cut them open...and made them a little bit smaller for the smaller
tree.
So you can also change the sizes of these.
To hang this artwork
I used green twine and I glued it to the back onto the cork
and then I cut a piece of felt and glued that over the looped twine and that holds it very
securely in place.
Then you just tie that on to a branch from the yard.
The Aleene's Turbo Tacky Glue is available at Michaels.
It's Terrifically Tacky
and Creatively Cool!