So, for the past year or so I have been working on my family tree on and off collecting names dates and pictures of anyone I could. I decided I wanted to display the latest generations with pictures and everything but everything I looked at wasn't quite what I was looking for. Then I came up with doing one tree for my side of the family and one for my husbands right next to each other. At a later date I plan to add our kids in between the two niches.
I started off painting a tree in each niche. I found a clip art picture of a tree I liked and used it while painting the tree.
Then I wanted to add some dimension to the tree's and I did this by cutting out a bunch of leaves on different colors of scrapbook paper. We have a silhouette Cameo which made this process go really fast. I attached the leaves with colorful thumbtacks.
Then I bought a lot of wooden placks on clearance at Michael's. They started off white and I painted them randomly. I did use a different shape for each generation. I printed the pictures and adhered them with Modge Podge. I used the Silhouette Cameo to cut out the names and dates for each person on vinyl. My handwriting is not good enough for me to use a paint pen (I tried). This took a while but defiantly worth it.
I also used black vinyl to cut out our last names and put them on the wall... I will update this later as I do not have all of my mother in law's family done (waiting on pictures from her) and I have our family crests and information about our last names I want to add to the wall.
