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Recycled Wood Trees

December 13, 2021 By: Linda @ Mixed Kreationscomment

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Hi All! Today’s project is three easy diy recycled wood trees made out of scrap pieces of a left-over door frame. The stands are made from Starbucks bottle tops that I rusted using this technique on how to make rusty cans.

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Diy Recycled Wood Trees

Since the pieces from the door frame were pre-painted, I used my belt sander to sand off some of the white paint on both sides giving it the distressed look that I so love.

Easy recycled wooden trees

Once I had all the trees distressed, I used some antiquing medium to darken up the white a bit, and staining the parts of raw wood showing.

Easy recycled wooden trees

Use a paper towel to dab off any excess antiquing medium.

For the tree bases I used rusty Starbucks tops. See how to rust metal quickly using this technique.

recycled wooden trees and rusty base

After getting the tops rusted to my liking, I used Mod Podge to seal the lids so that the rust doesn’t come off on your hands.

rusty bottle tops

Then I drilled holes through the middle of each lid.

how to rust lids

And holes in the bottom center of each tree.

Easy recycled wooden trees

The trees were attached using wood screws.

diy wood trees
diy recycled wooden trees

To decorate the recycled wood trees up a bit I added a wood star that I first painted yellow then antiqued and glued down to top of the tallest of the three.

Easy recycled wooden trees
Easy recycled wooden trees

For the other two tie a piece of greenery in the center of a piece of twine then wrap the twine around each tree.

Easy recycled wooden trees
wooden christmas tree
Easy recycled wooden trees

That’s it for these free-standing recycled wood trees. I am loving how they turned out.

Easy recycled wooden trees

Supplies

Scrap wood -door frame
Belt sander
Starbucks bottle tops rusted
Mod Podge
Drill
Small wood star
Yellow acrylic paint
Antique medium
Paintbrush
Twine
Paper towel
3 wood screws
Christmas greenery

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Easy recycled wooden trees

Easy recycled wooden trees

Diy recycled wooden trees

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