Bleached bottle brush trees with vintage sheet music base tutorial

 I have been busy this year.

Sometimes even too busy to go to my happy place...

the aisles of a craft store.

I'm super excited that I found a new happy place with Consumer Crafts.

An on-line craft store that lets me shop from the comfort of my home

or while sitting in the bleachers at swim team practice.

You can find the catalog here.

A few weeks ago I showed you how easy it was to shop at Consumer crafts.

Today, I'm going to show you a few of the items that I ordered and how I got crafty with them.

I shared with you my little experiment that I did, trying to bleach my own

"vintage" bottle brush trees.

I learned a few things.

One of those things, was that I needed sisal trees,

and guess what?

I was able to find sisal trees {on sale!} 

and everything else I needed from consumercrafts.com.

Here is what you need to make your own bottle brush trees:

Frosted Sisal trees

Darice Extra fine glitter in silver and white

Aleen's tacky glue

unfinished wood spools

bleach

vintage music pages

buttons

I start with a mix of half water and half bleach and let mu trees soak in the bleach water until they are at the desired color.  The longer they stay in the water, the whiter they become.

Let your trees air dry.

Once your trees are dry,

paint tacky glue in a thin coat onto the branches.

Sprinkle your glitter onto your trees.

The fun part is embellishing your trees.

Use your wooden spools as a base and glue on vintage sheet music and a button,

or skip the spool and glue on a small piece of sheet music to the bottom of the tree.

I placed my trees in an old cloche with some faux snow.

It's a fun quick project for this Christmas!
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disclaimer: this is a sponsored post written by me.  All opinions are 100% my own.