Christmas In July

Here in Australia we love our ‘Christmas in July’. It’s the coldest month of the year and we get to experience what a Northern Hemisphere Christmas is like, minus the snow of course unless we live up in the mountains!

I’ve seen a few Christmas in July projects being shown on Aussie Blogs, that prompted be to think of something I could show. I haven’t been working on any Christmas projects but do have something I made last Christmas (the real one back in December).

In my travels I had seen wreath cards similar to mine using the Two-step Bird punch branch. However, when I sat down to make one my self, it didn’t look right. So I sat down and had a play and this is what I came up with.

I ended up cutting off the single leaf on one side, trimming the branch and arranging them on a pencil drawn circle template. Next I did a second layer to cover up the spaces of the first one. This is what I came up with and here is a close-up of the wreath.

I used some red rhinestones that I had and some retired stripy ribbon that reminded me of candy canes.

Thanks for checking in and ‘Happy Christmas in July’ to you!

Jen