Have yourself a vintage little Christmas

This year for my Christmas tree,  I didn't know what to do.

I didn't have money to buy things, so I decided to make them.

I bought an old book by Charles Dickens (how fitting), 

and punched out snowflakes with a paper punch.

Laying them in piles of 3, I sewed them in a line to make a paper tree garland.

Now for the ornaments.

I made 3 different "vintage - like" ornaments.

First, this green Christmas bulb.

The base is made out of an egg carton. 

I cut out the dome shapes,...

...poked a hole through each end,....

...put some gold string through,..

...with a red bead on the top and bottom,...

...then hot glued the domes together.

 After that, I created a swirly pattern in the center.

They looked like this.

I painted them an olive green, brushed some gold nail polish over the swirls,

and added some red glitter dots - VIOLA!!!!

They came out so nice!!!!

To continue on with the vintage theme, 

I used more of the pages from Dicken's book to make some of these.

(sorry for the lack of photos, I got carried away with making them and forgot to take photos).

It is just a strip of the book about 8-10 in long X 2 in wide,

 folded at every half inch,

glued together at the ends to form a disc with a glittery red circle and snowflake on top.

Next, I got online an found some vintage Christmas card graphics.

I made them all the same size (about 3in x 1 3/4 in).

Cut them out and put them between clear boxing tape.

Everything here gets moldy from the humidity,

 so I thought it might help to put them between plastic.

After that, I cut the extra plastic off

and painted little accents with glittery snow paint and that red glitter paint.

I punched a piece of gold foil crepe for the background paper 

and added some red ribbon.

It is fun to look at all of the different vintage cards on my tree!

Maybe this will inspire you to do something new for yours next year.

Have yourself a vintage little Christmas!

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