How to make White & Gold Christmas Decorations • DIY home decor • thrift flips

Hey guys, welcome back to my channel in today's video. I'm gonna be taking four Christmas tree wood DIY cutouts that I found at the thrift store and giving them all a different Makeover also there is a giveaway in this video. So you want to stay tuned till the end I think y'all gonna enjoy today's project So let's go ahead and get started and I want to thank Squarespace for sponsoring today's video. I Thrifted all of these wooden trees several months ago, and I actually forgot about them But I just found them in my thrifted stash So I figured in today's video would have some fun and do something different on every single tree I have some of these self-adhesive wall tiles from the Dollar Tree. They are very thin and flimsy I don't know if they'd be great for home decor, but I think they're gonna be perfect for DIYs and this project now I don't want anything down the center right here because I have to slide the tree over So what I'm gonna do is I'm only going to put the adhesive on one half of the tree So I'm gonna do one on this side And then I'm also going to do a tree on this side I'm gonna have to do four sides so you can see it all the way around I have the two sides on now. I'm gonna cut it that way. I can also use The piece in the middle and try to use as much of this tile as possible because I only have three tiles in my stash Since this is so thin it's really easy to come in with an exacto knife and just cut the excess off So it looks like the adhesive wasn't on the tile part. It's this white part right here So once you cut it, that's how is no longer attached So I guess from the beginning you could kind of take that white part off I didn't realize it till I started cutting it So I'm just gonna go in with my hot glue and I'm gonna hot glue along all of the edges All right. Let me show you exactly what I'm talking about on this last piece because now that I've done the whole tree It's a lot easier to do this so just remove these pieces where you just have the tile and then take that and Hot-glue it to your piece because once you start cutting it up this kind of falls apart and gets in the way So just use your tile. It's gonna make your life a lot easier Finally done this project would have been a lot easier if I would have just been able to do a solid piece on each side But I did have to leave this space. So that way I could put the trees together in the end Also, I was thinking I could have made two trees by just doing a solid piece Then I would have covered up these slits. But anyway, here we are This is what we're doing Next step is I'm gonna take it outside and give it a coat of this sunlit brass color All right These pieces are all dry and they are looking so good If you're into a bright shiny gold, you can put them together and stop here, but I am not so we're gonna be using Fusions antiquing glaze and I want to give this more of an antique gold look so I'm gonna apply the antiquing Glaze to my entire piece and then I'm gonna take a paper towel and just kind of lightly Wipe it back and the antiquing glaze will stay in all the details and it'll also give it a much richer more antique look so you can kind of see the difference already here in this piece and Then in this piece So this is also a great idea if you find gold pieces or you have gold pieces in your stash and they're just a little bit too bright for your taste now you can add the fusion antiquing gel to them and Give them more of an antique look so you can take something like this and turn it into something beautiful and antique looking like this Look at all this stuff that I found at the Goodwill bins the other day I don't know about this particular tissue paper, but it was with the rest of it So grab if you have an idea for this one, please leave a comment. I love the gold and white one here and it pairs perfectly with this solid gold one and then this is actually a cover to a gift box, but I Love the picture on here. So I think this is gonna be in next week's YouTube video I'm gonna do something with this. So y'all stay tuned for that. I think for this project today I'm gonna be using this paper. I want to decoupage this on the wooden tree however I really want the background to be white not wood because whenever you decoupage something thin like the Tissue paper whatever is in the background will show through so I'm just gonna do a quick paint a quick coat of Fusions Victorian lace paint. It's just you know, a beautiful white color I'm not looking for full coverage. Although one coat is covering pretty good So I'm just gonna slap a coat of white paint on each side of this Christmas tree Alright, my pieces are painted with one coat of white paint Now I'm gonna take my fusion decoupage and transfer gel and I'm going to cover the wooden Christmas tree Then I'm going to take my thrifted tissue paper and I'm going to place it on Top and you do have time to work with this so you can kind of smooth it out If you have a brayer that is helpful You can just do like that. Oh, yeah, that's much better This is the IOD brayer and a lot of the products that I'm using today. You can find on my website Julie's designs and signs calm So I'm just gonna keep using the brayer because it's taking all of these little wrinkles out now when you are a decoupage and there's gonna be some wrinkles, but Feel like the more we can get out the better You could trim all the excess off but I think the easiest thing to do is to let your decoupage gel dry and then take a little sander and Just sand all the edges and then your paper will tear right off and give you a nice clean edge This is looking so good I am glad I took the extra step and Painted the background white because I don't think the gold would pop Nearly as much or it wouldn't be nearly as beautiful. Hadn't I done that? Okay Next I want to take my decoupage gel and I want to go over the top of it This will just seal everything in and make sure my tissue paper stays in place All right now I want to do something to these edges they just look unfinished So I'm gonna take Dixie Bell's gilding wax in a gold color and my stall master paintbrush Luckily, this paintbrush is the perfect size for these edges So I'm just gonna go along and add some gold to this if it gets a little bit on the tree That's really no big deal. It's just gonna kind of go with the look. It's almost the exact same color as the tissue paper So I'm just gonna finish up all of the edges with this gold gilding wax and then this piece will be done All right guys two projects down. 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This is an older piece, but I love the shape of these They're gonna be really kind of tall and skinny when we put them together. Look how cute I Want to stick with the gold and white theme for these trees as well So the first step is just to get a coat of white paint on here I'm using a fusion all-in-one paint in the color Victorian lace is just a very pretty white and I'm using my stall master pointed sash paintbrush Y'all know that one is my favorite Trees are painted white now. It is time to embellish. I want to start off with IOD kindest regards stamp it's like a letter stamp or like a you know, writing a letter stamp and So it's the perfect thing for a background and I'm using the gray ink because I want it to be a little bit more subtle Than the black and when my stamp is all inked up with the stone gray IOD ink I'm going to put it on my piece. It's not big enough To put on the entire thing, but that's okay because We're not gonna really read this. Anyway, it's just decoration So I'll put some up here and then I'll stamp the bottom of the Christmas tree. Oh Oh my gosh Look how good that came out This is just a plastics piece. That is on your stamp So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take that and I'm gonna put it on the part that I already stamped kind of like A mask that way. I don't get any ink right there and I'm gonna figure out where I want to Put the rest of the stamp and I'm gonna put that down that way this part up here It doesn't actually transfer on to my Christmas tree. It's just gonna go on this clear piece that I put down and There we go. Now. I just have to do this four more times Absolutely in love with how these came out y'all let me know what y'all think now We need to add in some gold so I actually want to use this gold tissue paper the one that I found at the bins and I'm going to cut it into some long strips I'm gonna take my fusion decoupage gel and we have these nice Thick edges on these Christmas trees. So I'm just gonna add the fusion decoupage gel all the way down the edge and then I'm gonna take my gold paper and I'm going to just put it on the edge of the Christmas tree where I just applied that fusion decoupage gel once it's all the way dry, I'm just going to take some sandpaper and Just rub it on the edges And once you do that, it'll kind of just tear off the tissue paper and I'm also going for a distressed look here so I think I'm actually going to kind of distress a little bit of the gold tissue paper and Maybe even the Christmas tree So you can see I already did this side and I distress the gold a little bit and I love how that looks and I also want to come in and like I said, just distress the Christmas tree as well and Make the stamp that we did on here even a little bit more subtle The last step is just going to be to seal this piece up And I think I'm just gonna go ahead and put it over the entire piece as well. I don't know y'all I think this might be my favorite tree that we did I'm just loving this stamp right here with the gold edges and a little bit of distressing Y'all let me know what y'all think When I put the other tree together I noticed that what really stands out on this tree is the thick edges. So for this one, I Really want to embellish that and have that be the standout part of this tree I'm going to be using IOD trimmings mode 2 I'm thinking this particular design right here is going to fit perfectly on the edge When using clay in your molds, you want to dust it with some cornstarch I just kind of put some in with a brush and then tap out the excess and then you're going to take your clay and you are just going to push it in to the mold and Then with the IOD micro rim All you do is you just rub with your thumb and all of the excess just comes right out Sometimes for bigger flatter pieces. I find it helpful to use the IOD brayer just to kind of flatten out the back of the piece and Then to get the clay out I like to kind of wiggle my mold and Then it just pops right out. Look at all the detail on here I'm gonna use a gorilla glue to glue my mode to this piece I like to glue our modes down when they are wet and I feel like gorilla glue works great you don't want to use hot glue when your modes are wet because It's it's not gonna dry properly since your clay is wet. All right, I cut the bottom piece So I'd have a straight edge, but the top piece is like this So when I add, you know, I'm gonna have to do several pieces to fit this entire tree and they will come together seamlessly because they all have this edge on here where they go together kind of like a puzzle piece and IOD actually has three different trimmings mode So if you're not crazy about any of the designs on this one, they have two other modes that you can pick from So I'm just gonna you know, the clay is movable So I'm just gonna bend it to the curvature of my piece and I'm gonna keep making More trimmings mode and adding it to how to do all four sides of this Christmas tree This is working great this mode is the perfect width and what I'm doing is I'm taking the edges of the clay and kind of Pushing it down onto the wood that way there won't be any gap between the clay and the wood It'll look like it is Permanently attached and that is what we want and even these details where it gets, you know, very small right here I'm not having any issue getting the clay to bend to that That actually went a lot faster than I thought it would two strips of the trimmings mode fit Perfectly on each side. My clay is starting to stiff up stiffen up But it is still wet and I want to go ahead and get a coat of paint on it. I'm using Victorian lace it's diffusion all-in-one paint I like to paint my clay when it's still wet and I find it helps with cracking and shrinking It doesn't it's not as bad if you go ahead and paint your clay while it's still wet So I'm gonna get one quick coat of paint on here, and then I'm gonna let my pieces dry My piece is all dry and y'all this is looking so Good now I did glue my piece together because I wanted to stay all together and I went and put like a little bead of hot glue Here kind of used hot glue as caulk because for the next step. I want my piece to be all together I have some Victorian lace fusion paint in this cup and I want to add a little bit of the Dixie Vale sea spray this is a texture additive and so what it's going to do is it's going to add some texture to my piece and Any of these areas where you know, there's a little gap here anything It's just gonna kind of feel that in and we're not gonna see that So you just add it into your paint and you mix it up the more texture you want the more sea spray The less texture the less you want. So it's just personal preference Whatever you want and then I'm just going to put it on my piece I'm gonna try to keep my brush strokes up and down that way the texture is up and down and I'm not gonna go too Thick on this side of my mold because I don't want to fill in the details of the mode I already put a coat of Victorian lace on it So it's already the color that I want so I really don't need to put paint right there My tree is looking white and beautiful and we have some texture going on Now we need to add some gold I'm gonna be using Dixie Bales gold gilding wax and I'm gonna be using my Starmaster brush. I'm just gonna put a little bit of gold gilding wax on it And then I'm just going to lightly luckily. This brush is the same size as my molding I'm just gonna go over it like this. I just kind of want to brush it on The details and not, you know cover the whole piece and gold That's exactly what I want it. So I'm just gonna dip a little bit and Add some more and this is just gonna give it a little bit of gold that will tie into the other trees that I made and also it'll bring out all of the details of The IOD moldings trimmings to mode So once I get my gilding wax on all of the edges of this tree, it will be done Alright guys, that is the end of today's video. I really hope that y'all enjoyed it Leave a comment below and let me know. What was your favorite project? So in the video when I created the Christmas tree with the stamp, that was my favorite But then I did the one with the IOD Trimmings mode and I don't know I kind of love that one, too So I'm not sure that I could decide and if you want to make some trees like this I did find some of these tree cutouts on Amazon and I will link that in the description But these thicker ones, I mean, they just don't make wood cutouts this thick anymore But I do have four left over so I decided to do a giveaway To four of my viewers if you're watching this video All you need to do is leave a comment and let me know which Christmas tree is your favorite And I'm gonna be picking the winners Thanksgiving Day I am going to post the winners in the community tab on YouTube on Thanksgiving Day, like I said, um, and I just want y'all to be aware Sometimes when you do a giveaway it brings out some scammers I will not be Posting on your comment asking you to text me on an app or anything like that If you get a message like that, it is a scammer Like I say it I will be posting the winners and the community tab on Thanksgiving Day Also, I want to take a moment to remind y'all about my email list because I've been having lots of sales and lots of new Products that you may not know about if you're not on my email list actually right now today I am waiting on some new stuff to come in Unfortunately, it wasn't in on time to put it in this video and that happens quite often So you would not know about the new products if you are not on my email list So I will leave a link to my email list in the description All you got to do is sign up so you can be the first to be notified when I have a sale when I have new product when I have Anything going on you will be the first to know and if you are interested in starting your own website Y'all go check out squarespace.com Julie's designs and signs and don't forget they're giving my viewers 10% off and I will have all the details Linked in the description. So I hope y'all enjoyed this video I hope it inspired y'all and I will see y'all next week for another DIY