Hi Friends! I’ve been seeing a lot of Valentine’s Day Trees on social media and thought I would make a miniature one with some of my Tim Holtz supplies. Some of the trees I’ve seen are Christmas Trees that have transformed into Valentine’s Day Trees so I thought I would make my own version of a tiny one that would add just the perfect touch to a fireplace mantle or shelf. I love to decorate for every holidays and, believe it or not, Valentine’s Day is one of my favorites. This tree was very easy to create and I’ll try to explain as best I can how I put it all together. Enjoy!
These are all the things I used to build my Valentine’s Day tree. Below I’ll explain how I created each element.
Tree
The first thing I created was the ombre tree using inspiration from the Tim Holtz Holiday Hacks video from 2018. To make the ombre tree check out his video here. Advance the video to 16:02 for Hack #4 for the trees, but I would go back and watch the entire video, if I were you, to get some awesome ideas for the holidays. You could use a lot of these hacks for Valentine’s Day too!
For my tree, I used Festive Berries, Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar Distress Ink Sprays.
Note: I used the Tim Holtz Large Tree Lot Trees but they are hard to find now since they were only available at Christmas time. I had them in my stash. You could use the Large Half Trees instead and if you want a whole tree, just adhere two of them together back to back. I have a link below to the large half trees as an alternative.
Conversation Hearts
To create the Conversation Hearts, I used the heart die from the Tim Holtz Gift Card Bag die set and wrote words on them with a white gel pen.
When the ink was dry, I gently rounded the hearts with the tip of a paint brush so they would conform to the shape of the tree a bit better.
Bulbs
The bulbs are a combination of Idea-ology baubles that have been colored with Red Pepper and Pink Sherbet alcohol ink. I did leave some of them white as well. The smaller bulbs are the tips of Idea-ology Beaded Berry Stems (not pictured) that I colored with Spun Sugar Distress Spray.
XO’s
The x’s and o’x are from the Tim Holtz Alphanumeric Lower Case Tiny Type die set cut out of white cardstock. I adhered the two letters together and glued them to the trees in various places.
Base
To finish the project off, I adhered the tree to a mason jar top that I rusted and lined with Idea-ology Christmas Fringe. I added the word Love that was made using Idea-ology Typography letters. I left these letters white so they would really stand out. I added an adorable paper doll that I colored with Spun Sugar Distress Crayon and placed a small heart in her hands that I cut from the Tim Holtz Falling Hearts die set. To finish off the tree, I added a pretty pink bow and a Idea-ology Mirrored Heart that was colored with Red Pepper Alcohol Ink.
I hope you enjoyed this project and that you might try creating a miniature Valentine Day Tree of your own. Thanks so much for stopping by.
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