Pallet Christmas Tree

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My friend Ryan sent the other girls in our small group a picture from Pinterest of a pallet Christmas tree.  It was so adorable! We like to have a craft night about once a month or so, and we all decided that this needed to be this month's craft. 

Her husband had some pallets left over from a pumpkin patch. He actually built the pallet trees for us (he's so handy!). 

To add the writing, Ryan printed out text from her computer, and we used a really easy transfer method to paint it on our trees.

*I apologize for the pictures. They were taken with my not-so-smart phone.*

To start, we traced the back of the text with artists' charcoal (you can also rub it with pencil or chalk).

 

 Next we lined up the words where we wanted them on the wood charcoal-side down and traced the outline of the words with a ball point pen. After you do this, you can move the paper away, and the charcoal will have trasferred onto your surface.

 

 You can see it really well in this picture.

 

After the outline was done, we filled in the letters with paint using a small flat brush.  I freehanded the star at the top.

 

I really love how it turned out! It was so simple and quick to make, we'll probably be making more! Hello, Christmas presents =)

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