Wood Slice Merry Christmas Garland

I am still crafting my way through my overstuffed craft room this holiday to create creative blog posts and fill up my vendor booth at a local boutique. This easy wood slice garland project is a great way to use up some supplies. 

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This post is part of the Creative Craft Hop hosted by Sara at Birdz of a Feather.

Now, back to the wood slice garland!

Living on a very wooded lot, I have access to not only pine cones but also branches to cut into thin wood slices for craft projects.

My husband cut up around 100 or more for my daughter’s wedding a few years ago. The plan was to use them as magnets for save-the-date announcements, but she changed her mind due to the high cost of postage.

However, we used them for the cake topper and other table projects.

In the last two years, I have been giving them away and using them for as many projects as possible.

I have wanted to make this project ever since I saw a similar one a few years ago in a Christmas store. In the next few weeks, you will see several more projects using these wood slices.

But for today’s post, I made a simple and easy DIY Wood Slice Merry Christmas Garland.

 Since these wood slices were cut and baked nearly two years ago, I could easily pull this project together very quickly.  You can too if you order the wood slices already treated and the holes drilled in them on Amazon.

 To start my project, I counted out enough wood slices from the post, all in similar sizes, to be able to spell out “Merry Christmas”.

Then, with my husband’s help on his day off, holes were drilled in each wood slice to thread the twine through.

The next step was to paint one side of each of the wood slices white. I really wanted the letters to stand out once attached, so I chose white. You can choose any color that works best for your project for the base color, or none at all.

The easiest way to create the letters was, of course, using my Cricut Joy™ machine. I cut out each letter about 1 1/2 inches high since the wood slices were around 2 inches in diameter each.

The white base coat of acrylic craft paint was a good surface to attach the vinyl letters to.  Even after being sanded down, the roughness of the wood slices can be a little tricky to get the vinyl letters to stick.

At this point, I decided that the wood slices with the black letters looked too plain for a Christmas garland.

Next time, I will try either red or green vinyl.

To make them more festive, I grabbed a couple of red and green paint brushes and acrylic paint and created little holly leaves and berries on each wood slice beside the letters.

The last step is to string the wood slices onto the jute twine.  I chose red and green twine for my project.

Another thing I will do differently if I make a wood slice garland again in the future is to drill two holes in the slices to make this step a bit easier.

However, I figured out how to string on the wood slices and keep them flat with the letters showing.  Slide the jute twine through the back side of the drilled hole to the front, tie a double knot at the top, and proceed to the next wood slice.  Repeat the pattern.

My plan was to hang the garland as a double strand over a doorway in my home, so I used red twine for the word Merry and green twine for the word Christmas. However, in the end, I just hung them on the antique wood mantel in my front sitting room. 

I guess this is the last step, and that was to hang them up.

Making this garland is another DIY off my bucket list, and I used up more of the wood slices in my craft room.

Merry Christmas, everyone, and I hope you have a fabulous holiday.

Be sure to visit all of the other talented bloggers in the hop this month, starting with Gail at Purple Hues and Me and her Crushed Glass and Pearls Ornament.

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Happy Thanksgiving and hugs to you all,

Psalms 28:7 “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart celebrates, and I give thanks to him with my song.”

If you liked this project, here are a few more for you to enjoy:

DIY Rustic Christmas Ornaments

Mini Wreath Ornaments

Easy and Bright Repurposed Coaster Ornaments