Fairyland Birthday Wishing Tree Tutorial

Today's tutorial is courtesy of the sweet and talanted Marilyn from The Artsy Girl Connection.  Marilyn has lots of great tutorials, including everything you need to throw a fairyland theme birthday party {love it!}  She's a great bloggy friend, so go visit her and introduce yourself!

~*Fairyland Birthday Wishing Tree*~

If you keep on believing, the dreams

that you wish will always come true.

Hello friends & blog budddies of Jill's, I am Marilyn

from "The ArtsyGirl Connection & am VERY honored

to be featured on Women Who Do It All today (squeaaals)! Hope

you enjoy my artsy creation/tutorial today & it

inspires you all to come visit me at

The Artsy Girl Connection.

It's truly one of my favority artsy creations yet!!

My tutorial today features a Fairyland Birthday Wish Tree

from my daughter's 1st birthday party this month. I can't believe

she's already 1-- it's been a very emotional month, from

watching her learn to walk, actually running now, flushing

the toilet & insanely driving everyone crazy during shower time

(she sneaks in and turns the cold water nob full on! brrrr)!

This wish tree works perfectly in so many ways as the wishes

last a lifetime!! You can substitute recieving birthday cards

(which most ppl throw away) and simply have ppl write your lil

one a wish instead. You can save the wish tree forever,

add to it during special occasions and always reuse for

different events..We just added valentine wishes the other

day with cute love notes to the tree.

Ready To Build Your's???Here's what to do ;))

~Artsy Items Needed~

*Plain Tall Vase

*Loose moss (Michael's Purchase)

*Dried Tree Branch (Preferably one with lots of branches

I cut this branch from a bush in front of my house that

I loved simply because of the red tone it had; depending on the

branch color you prefer, you can spray paint the branch to flow

with your party theme or color)Look around your neighborhood

and snag a small branch fitting for your needs! Priceless!

*Wild Flower Stickers (The lil flower's on the wish tree vase)

*Butterfly Clips(Various Colors)

*Clear Strings or ribbons if you'd like

*Hole Punch (preferrably a smaller one;

u can get creative and use shaped punchers)

*Stencils ~a variety of sizes(I used butterfly and dragonfly stencils to match

my theme,but you can use whatever stencil's you'd like per your party.

Simply print out stencils online and cut them

carefully for free) Smaller ones to simply hang on tree and

and bigger ones for the written wishes to go on.

*Assorted decorative paper of your choice (I used both one

sided designer paper<-I used these for the written wishes; &

two toned designer paper<-to cut out the stencils

for hanging butterflies for the tree. The two toned looks pretty & works well

as you can see the patterns on both sides as they hang)

*A flat moss rounded placement patch to set your vase on

*Scissors

*Glue Gun

(Everything Listed Above Can

be bought at Michaels Craft Store)

Ready To Craft...? ;))

To begin, Simply fill the vase with green moss(you

can use whatever moss color of your choice depending on the

look you'd like), press down for a firm foundation and loosen up as

you get closer to the top of the vase to give the

moss a fun bushy & looser look

Insert tree branch into the vase and support to stand

straight (you can hide all sorts of objects within the moss for

support, I chose not to use glue for hold in order to be able to

reuse the moss whenever I needed or move it around in the vase)

Once tree is standing firm, place it on your table on top of the

moss placement, add the wild flower sticker's to the outside

of the vase all around sparingly --That's half the

process---"The FUN Begins"

Cut out your butterfly stencils(as many as needed for writting the

wishes and stack them in a pile), String them at the tip of each

towards the top corner of the butterfly wing so they can be hung

up by your guests after writing out their wishes.

Cut out the smaller butterflies and fold them down the middle

before you string them. String some in the middle and some to the

edge of the wings. This allows it to look a bit 3D and

you can see all sides as they hang. Hang them on different branches

of the tree. Glue the smaller ones on the branches

in different spots. Add the butterfly clips to the tree as

well at different angles for a nice and pretty artsy look.

Once that's all done, place

the pile of blank butterfly wishes to be written

in a nice pile by the wish tree stand or table,

and place a few pretty pens next to them.

You are ALL DONE!!!

As your guests arrive, have them stop by the wish table and

write out lil wishes to last a lifetime to the beautiful birthday

princess...These where SUCH a HUGE hit at Sia's

birthday party!! We had some very cute and FUNNY

wishes all around & everyone LOVED IT!!

Hope this tutorial helps add a beautiful

addition to your fairy birthday or event!!

Faith, trust, pixie dust & a tree full of wishes to last a fairy lifetime!!

With love and fun wishes~

.....Marilyn

The ArtsyGirl Connection