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Little Tree Decorations My Wife Made

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APW

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My wife made these for Christmas decorations and I have to say they turned out great. We have them out in front of one of our washes.
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WOW!! There awesome. We did some similar like that years ago with Turtle Wax. Tell your wife there beautiful
 
Those look great! Are they Christmas little trees or do you plan on leaving them up all year?
 
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APW i saw this post last year and thought it was a great idea and really well done. I decided to make my own ripoff of it this year. Mine didnt turn out as nice as your wifes did, but i added my own twist to it. Please Don't be angry, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery right?? Lol


I will probably eventually add a merry christmas or seasons greetings message to the bottom, and add maybe 2 or 3 more in different colors like you did. But the feedback has been all smiles laughs and giggles so far.....


APW said:
My wife made these for Christmas decorations and I have to say they turned out great. We have them out in front of one of our washes.
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Sparkleclean and APW, Making these is on my to do list for the winter. I'm certainly not artistic in any way, so how do you get the outline to look so much like the real thing?
 
Eric H said:
Sparkleclean and APW, Making these is on my to do list for the winter. I'm certainly not artistic in any way, so how do you get the outline to look so much like the real thing?
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Im not sure how APW did it, but i used a bright flood light inside a reflective shield (the old kind you used to use working on a car in the garage with a clamp on it and a metal reflective shield) and i taped a little tree freshner in front of it. That gave me a shadow in a dark room. It wasnt perfect but i only needed to trace half of the image onto the 3/4 pt plywood. Then i cut out that half, and once done i traced that half onto cardboard and cut that out to transfer the image to the second half. This way the two sides matched. I cut it with a handheld jig saw. I rushed to get it done before this christmas, so after the holiday i will clean up the edges and repaint it nicer as well as add something to the bottom, but it gets the point across for now.

I considered doing it out of 1/2" 4x8 kleer sheets (pvc panels) but they are all white and i wasnt sure how they would handle being painted colors. The pt plywood i used was thick and already dry enough that 2 coats of exterior paint covered it ok. I only painted 1 side and the edges and used an entire quart of paint. I think these could be made for just under $100 each and would take maybe 2- 3 days to do depending on paint drying time.

I have a contact at tss signs and i sent these pics to him. I think tss could make these trees out of corrugated plastic, the kind they use for the antenna signs, and could potentially be much cheaper. Or at least mich lighter ......lol i actually asked them why they arent doing more christmas related stuff for car washes. I would like to see wash specific oversized christmas decorations, both lighted and unlighted available. The christmas decoration market is pretty big and no manufacturer has jumped on it yet, except for a couple santa inages on some signs.
 
I had my local graphic man scan an actual little tree to create a template, he then enlarged it to actual size and made it in vinyl. Then laid it out plywood and cut it out.
 
They look great. We are going to have to get off the stick and do some decorating next Christmas. The Kubota tractor store has a big tractor with Santa driving the large tractor being pulled by 8 smaller tractors with white lights on all the tractors, looks pretty cool at night.
 
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