Picture Molding Christmas Trees

If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you know I love

to create things with picture molding.

I've made Giant Butterflies...

Unique drawer pulls and accents on furniture....

Letters, and more...

Click the category "Things to Make with Molding"

to see all of them.

This time, I had an idea to use the molding to make little 

Christmas Trees.

I used the chop saw to miter the edges and used lots

of wood glue to secure them to another piece of wood on the back.

Primed them ...

I only had enough molding to make three...boo. 

I would have loved to make a whole forest of them.

After I glued the largest one together, I realized two things.

One...the last two layers I used were plain molding and it didn't

look right with all the other decorative molding.

And two...the second to the last layer is not cut on the same angle as the others.

I don't know how that happened, but it did and I left the "uneven" cutting.

But for the "too plain" dilemma, I used ...

This nailhead trim I had on hand and applied it to that layer

for added dimension...

And this is how that one turned out...much better.

I decided to go monochromatic and paint white with a brown wash

to bring out all the detail

They are made to just lean on a shelf or mantel

Painted on the back...

This molding is all just so pretty to me...

On the smallest one, I didn't stagger the layers but instead cut them

even for a different look.

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