It's surprisingly easy as well. You can can bottle brush trees at the dollar store, or any craft store. I have purchased them from like five different places, but if you get the 40% off Michaels's coupon, it's best to get the bag, in my opinion.
Once you have your trees, fill a bucket or sink with bleach and water.
Put the trees inside. I let mine in for a few hours until white.
Once they were the color white I wanted, I put gloves on and took them out. I places them onto newspaper on my kitchen table and let them dry over night, this is def a two to three day project.
Once the trees are dry you can now color them the colors of your choice. I left a few white as well.
I used rit petal pink and aqua.
The amount of rit to use depends on what shade you want your trees to be. This took me a few times to perfect. I seemed to like an inch of rit at the bottom of the bucket and the rest filled with water. It doesn't take long to color them, I just kept an eye on them and took them out when they looked the way I wanted them to.
I let them sit overnight and then glittered them the next day.
To glitter them, I used modge podge and a foam paint brush. I started at the top of the tree and just brushed to the bottom, continuing until I had all of the tree modge podges. I then poured glitter all over and let them dry AGAIN overnight ;)
So you need:
-bottle brush trees
- bleach
- bucket or sink
- rit dye
- mode podge
- foam brush
- clear/iridescent or white glitter
- you may also use little ball ornaments to decorate ;)
Good luck!
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