Beadboard Christmas Tree

I love it when I can grab some scraps & make a project come together!

I've been hanging onto a piece of beadboard for awhile waiting for the perfect project to use it in. So when I found some antique roof tins at an antique store, and remembered that I had a bunch of rusty metal stars, I knew I had found a purpose for the beadboard.

I measured and drew off triangles on the back of the beadboard & cut them out to make Christmas trees.

 I painted the beadboard with the color, Fluff, from the Dixie Belle Paint Company.

 Than I added Dixie Belle's Van Dyke Glaze.

 I used E6000 to glue the beadboard tree onto the roof tin.

 Then I added a star to the top of the Christmas tree.

I'm thinking of making more with green trees. What do you think?

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Church Paintings

Last week I talked about how I sometimes acquire things and they sit for a year (or ten) before I create anything with them. Other times I create something right away with my junk treasures, as was the case with this box of tin that a friend gave me...

The raised arch shape immediately made me think of a church...

So I filled in the arch with white paint and blended in a little brown...

I added a door...

and, a cross and a wreath...

I loved it so much that I decided to do a series of churches...

Don't be too excited for me yet for having completed a project so quickly...I still have a box full of the tin!

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