Winter theme house

I love shades of blue for Christmas - not very traditional I know but I like the wintery theme and this was the inspiration for this make.

The base for this piece is MDF house piece that has been covered in papers "Carol in the Snow". The edges were all distressed with weathered wood ink.

To add some character to the house I chose to use a MDF window and fence set. Before adhering the window I cut a piece of paper from the "topper" sheet and stuck it behind the window. The fence pieces were then stuck together and adhered to the bottom of the house.

 The next step was to fussy cut our the "houses" at the bottom of one of the paper sheets and then gingerbread elements, poinsettia, holly and mistletoe images. The poinsettia were shaped using a ball tall and had glitter stamens added. I fiddled around with the composition until I was happy with it.

Once everything was in place I added seeds, cones, star anise and the stringy stuff from the embellishment pack picked up at the shop at the retreat. As a final touch I added snow paste and glitter.

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POINSETTIA

Hello all.

Today on the blog my next floral inspiration - poinsettias.

I made them from a delicate silk foam according to stencil 06.

I tinted with pastels and sprinkled with brocade.

Materials:

-stencil 06

-silk foam Pink

-silk foam Pistachio

- gold stamens

-soft pastels

Regards

Bożena/BBart

Thank you

Hi

Do you like Toffifee? Would you like to thank somebody for anything? Would you like to give that person small present? You have no idea what would be the best? 

I have one idea for you...

In 14 Craft Bar you can find plain boxes for Toffifee. Everybody likes chocolate. You can just decorate that box, put Toffifee into and voilà...beautiful box is ready, looks amazing and the content is very tasty.

Below I have two examples for you. 

Enjoy

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Regards

Hairband with foamiran flowers and a tutorial

Hi, DT Henriette here today. I've made my first hairband with foamiran flowers.

Here is a step-by-step photo tutorial on how I made the little flowers.
For the flowers I used the smallest and the medium sized die from the Flower set 3.

For each flower I die cut two flower shapes with the same die. 

I used my cuttlebug to die cut the flower shapes, you can easily die cut 4 layers of foam at once.

Then I hold one flower shape to the pre-heated iron (2 dots heated) for a few seconds.

With a modelling tool I press the flower shape in a sponge. 

I did the same with the second flower shape but this time I turned the warm shape the other way before pressing it into the sponge. It gets a different shape this way.

To make the center of the flower I put a few stamens between a piece of flower wire.

Then I pierce this through the two flowers.

With a hot glue gun I put some glue on the bottom of the flower to make sure the stamens stay in place. Finally I cut of the wire.

I made 3 larger flowers and about 17 smaller ones in 3 colors, white, red and dark pink. For the leaves I used a leave die and olive green foam.

Before gluing the flowers and leaves on the head band I wrapped white florist tape around the band, but you can also use ribbon for that.

I'm going to give this hairband to my neighbor girl who is 4 years old, she will look cute with it.
Thanks for stopping by today at the 14 craft bar blog.

Hugs, Henriette.

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