Newly Crafted Patriotic Ornaments, 2017

Welcome!!

I wanted to share with you some ornaments that I made and some that I embellished to use for my Patriotic Summer Tree in the Living Room!!

I have been going through all my Craft supplies and creating things for myself since I decided to no longer be a Crafter at local craft fairs for now......

So when I found a small tub of things that could be used for Patriotic ornaments, I thought I better do some "dabbling" with them before I take down my Patriotic Summer Tree!!

I will be linking up this post to the Christmas in July Party because it shows how you can decorate a "Tree" for other seasons and Holidays!!

 I bought these paper mache stars when our local A.C.Moore store went out of business and closed......

I spray painted them blue.........

I had some patriotic flag toothpicks left over from when I used them to decorate my Victorian doll house......

 I cut the flags off the toothpicks and then decoupaged them on to the stars......

I then glued a red tinsel trim, white beads and red and silver stars to the ornaments.......

I used blue velvet ribbon to create the ornament hanger.......

I did not have enough flags for the last blue star so I used some white paint to highlight the star and then glued on the red tinsel trim, white beads and red and silver stars......

I also had 2 flat paper mache stars.......

So I painted them white and added the trim and beads and stars........

I also glued vintage looking Patriotic tags onto each one........

I had 3 bags of stars....red, blue and silvers ones so I decided to embellish a few plain ornaments that I already had on the Tree......

I also had a blue felt star trim in my stash so I embellished a few more ornaments using the trim........

 Joe received these 2 Patriotic coasters through the mail for donating to a Veteran's group so I decided to make them into ornaments!!

 You can see how the one on the left looked before I embellished it.......

 So here are some of the ornaments that I "dabbled" with.......

And here they are on the Tree.........

Let's take a closer look........

I will probably be "un-decorating" this Tree at the end of July and decorating it differently for the remainder of the Summer but I am going to leave that a secret until I finish it.......

In my next post, I will continue with my Summer Kitchen Series.......

  So I hope you will be back to visit again soon.......

 

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