Our Hands Make Leaves...well sorta.

First Pinterest crafty attempt - semi fail.  BUT, the fault lies with me and me alone (and maybe the baby because he would NOT cooperate with the handprint). 

While shirking my housecleaning browsing Pinterest one afternoon I saw this adorable family handprint tree and figured that I could feasibly get most of the fam to cooperate with the hands and the paint.  I was a little concerned about the drawing of the tree part, but I figured with my Pinot's Palette experience that it'd be no problem so I grabbed a bottle glass of wine and set to work. 

Before I give you my picture, a few disclaimers...
1.  I am not an artist (repeat over and over again - although the tree turned out decently)
2.  I plan, but when I decide to do something, I kind of just jump in without maybe planning a little more which would have been helpful with this project.
3.  My husband's hands - freakishly huge.  No clue since he's not overly large.  He (or rather his hands) led to the semi-demise of the handprint tree.
4.  The baby LOVED the paint, but did NOT love opening his hand.  He has five little fingers, not a mashed up clump of flesh which is what you'd infer from looking at his handprint. 

So here's the picture.

I cut off the other half of the tree, because, well that was my side and it was perfect.  And, our family info is on there and no offense, but don't want to give out personal information for the Pinterest stalkers that are out there (not you, of course).  When I'm less lazy, I'll blur out the other parts so you can see the whole masterpiece.  

But, doesn't matter.  You can see why I gave this a semi-fail.  With hubby's handprint on the side, it made our tree very lopsided.  

I just wrote our family name, year, and individual names in a fat sharpie on the canvas (I'm sure a paint pen would be fabulous also).  That worked out well.  The original person wrote a cute little quote, but I prefered the names...

These were for our mothers for Christmas, so they were all excited about paint and handprints.  "Only a mother could love..."

So, maybe back to the recipes again.  Plenty of those!

Krissy