Ready for another Holiday tree?

The next little tree here is a bit more colorful, than the pure black and white version shown yesterday.

I am also trying to make a more traditional example without being too "traditional" meaning no real pine tree, but with more red and green colors. I am hopefully coming up with that one before the season really starts. :)  I love that I am able to make christmas decorations all ready in September.  At a dinner out with girlfriends last week, they all looked at me like: "Are you serious? Christmas trees in September"
Christmas has always been my favorite time of year. So yes I was serious.

You start out with a single dry cleaners hanger and  bend it into the trunk of the tree with a good solid base. Wrap  pipe cleaners around the hanger and build up the amount of branches you like the tree to have.

Cut up a lot of scrap tissue paper in long strips.....and you also need smaller strips, but you will figure that out as you go along.  Lesson learned. Do you use purple tissue paper if you want to end up with a white tree!. It requires  way to much white paint to cover it up. You can either use a mix of e.g. Elmer's school glue and water in 1:2 or you can make up a paste of flour and water. I used Elmer's glue and it worked well.

In my case. Several layers of white acrylic paint was poured over the tree. It dries really quickly, so you will see quick results. 

The final "tree" with the many colors of hearts, to celebrate the holidays in a colorful way.