Having purchased said little packet of loveliness, I then had to do something with it. First job was to snip off the plastic loop on the back so I was in with a chance of sticking them to something. What followed was what I can only describe as an explosion in a craft room!!!
How do you run out of space when you have a whole room? (The owl cushion on the floor is my keeping-the-feet-warm device, by the way.)
Eventually I came up with this:
It is completely different to anything else I've ever done, but I rather like it. The main challenges were:
How do I stick the darned things to the card? - I was on my way out to the shed to beg silicon sealant from my Husband when I remembered that I am the proud possessor of a hot glue gun, problem solved.
The Holy Family were levitating en masse, not a good look. Hmm. Need to ground them - aha, a bit of old string, separate the strands, snip them into workable lengths, add some matt medium to stick, et voila - straw.
Large bare space it the top RH corner, just asking for a greeting. Could I find anything suitable? Absolutely not. I ground to a halt at this point, and decided a clean up was in order to clear my head, during which I unearthed a new copy of Simply Cards and Papercraft that I bought for the lovely set of Altenew stamps and dies..with the perfect greeting for my card, hurrah!
The stable is made up of strips cut from a piece of kraft cardstock stamped with a woodgrain stamp and mounted on 1mm foam tape.
So Happy Christmas Mum, and I'm off the hook for another year!
See you later,
Janet x
Kraft cardstock
Versafine Smokey Grey inkpad
Hero Arts Designer Woodgrain stamp
6" card blank
Patterned paper background freebie from Making Cards magazine
Hot glue gun
Claudine Helmuth matt multi medium
1mm foam tape
piece of string
Memory Box Star of Wonder die
scrap of glitter card
Free Altenew greeting stamp from SCAP magazine
Versafine Majestic Blue inkpad
Ranger Frosted Crystals embossing powder
Heat gun
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