Added some bling to my Christmas trees

I looked at my recycled Christmas trees and I thought that they needed some extra flair and alot of color.  Since they all green from the spray paint and the dabs of green that I had touch up where the spray didnt get. I took my miniature ornaments and a base for one of the trees and added white fluffy blanket to where I placed the miniature ornaments.   I couldn't believe it when they were finished.  I had enough ornament to put under both trees and I took many pics of them.  I was beaming of my accomplishment, I was like a kid in a candy store playing with the ornaments doing this fun project.

Puttin on the Ritz

I made two decadent chocolately crispy treats from Ritz crackers. Who doesn't like Reeces Pieces, or the famous Peppermint bark that you make at Christmas time...??. I did both on Ritz crackers and that the results....well, you will have to make it yourself to believe me. I am not a baker myself, if there's a shortcut to anything sweet, I am all for it.

Line a cookie sheet with wax paper.
1 sleeve of Ritz crackers
1/2 cup of good semi-sweet chocolate (chips or baking bar)
Reeces pieces (1/2 bag crushed)
Peppermint candies (15 pieces, crushed)
Line a cookie sheet with wax paper.

Melt the chocolate in the microwave in 30 second intervals, and stir. Do this step until the chocolate melts.

With two spoons, put a cracker at a time on a spoon and have the bowl under it to catch the excess chocolate. Smooth the chocolate just on top of the cracker and put in on the cookie sheet. Do this for all the crackers.

Half of the crackers get the crushed Reeces Pieces and the other half get the crushed peppermint candy. Put the sheet in the fridge until the chocolate sets.

You can melt more than 1/2 cup of chocolate if desired, but is was more than I needed for 1 sleeve of crackers since the top of crackers is all you need.

Christmas tree from recycled material

It seems that I am posting either my crafts or recipes, but it's what we all here for, correct. I had a chance to do some crafts using recycled material and if I can say myself, I did a pretty darn good considering. I never wanted to use this phrase...but in all purposes what it is, toilet paper rolls. That right, I made Christmas trees out of strips of toilet paper or paper towel rolls. After I flattened the rolls, I marked 1/2 inch increments with the pencil to the end of the roll, then cut the strips. Then I sprayed all the strips with green paint (do this part outside) and let them dry. I went row by row and attached each strip to a cardboard cone that I made myself. Each row took about 8 strips and took 10 rows from bottom to the top... so there were 80. Depending on the size of the dimension of the tree. Then I went around with plain (Elmer's) glue and sprinkled faux snow randomly and then put white glitter on some branches. I made a circular base from cardboard and hot glued to the bottom and sprinkled more faux snow to it.

Santa with his list ornament

I love making Christmas ornaments especially when I can use recycling items such as cardboard; which I save for the many crafts I do. 

I printed out a picture of Santa and traced it on a  circle of cardboard and painted in the details and finished with red glitter on his suit and white glitter on his beard. I hole punched it and strung a red ribbon on top.

Winter Wonderland

This cute scene is made from a sheet of corrugated cardboard which I added a white fluffy blanket and secured it with hot glue underneath. Then I scattered miniature christmas ornaments on top accordingly. I made trees out of construction paper and decorated them with paint and glitter. I threw fake snow around and made a pond with blue glitter. The hills are made with cotton balls and I put a house on one and snowman and little ornaments.

Purple Penguin Ornaments

These penguin ornaments were also a hit with the kids. I cut out circles or rectangular shapes from the paper and glued down to cardboard templates and smoothed them down. Then I sprinkled deep purple glitter on one of them and sprinkled irredescent glitter on the others. I strung purple satin ribbon on the top and gave some to my granddaughter, nieces.

Adorable Snowmen Tags

Today I brought out my Christmas crafts from last so I that could see what I had and what I needed to finish or add to the collection.  Some of them I gave to gifts to people and they were so thrilled to get something handmade. 

 I had the cutest paper with snowmen and used it for gift tags.  I cut out snowmen from the wrapping paper and glued them on sturdy cardboard and on the other side wrote on the "to and from" signage and went around the border of the snowman with silver glitter glue.  I used my hole punch and added silver curling ribbon for the string.