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Santa's Workshop
By Grace Tolman
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I first primed my house with white paint. I think it's a great idea to always add a splash of paint onto any wood project. This gives you a clean and finished look at the end. The paint also helps if you can't cover the entire project with paper.
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I measured each part of the birdhouse and cut my papers according to size.
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I used mod podge for this project. I love the result of liquid adhesive on altered items like this.
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I then cut circles and cut that in half to make scallops for my roof and punched a scallop border from the striped pattern paper to hung from the roof. Finished that off with some GCD studios ribbon.
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I cut out some trees from one of the pattern papers in the collection and dressed up the front with it. I took one of my leftover popsicle sticks from the countdown project, covered that with pattern paper and grabbed a journaling block from the collection pack to house my project title.
Notes:
I made a mistake while spelling out my title and made the word workshop plural (added an s at the end) so to cover up my mistake, I added a button over the word and balanced it out with another ribbon on the top of the block. This just shows that creativity can always occur even when making mistakes.
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Christmas Kitty
By Renee
Thanks Grace and Renee for a FUN post today!
Super projects! Love the house!
ReplyDeletehi grace. you made a beautiful mistake ;o) and your santa's workshop is sooo cute.
ReplyDeleterenee's layout is super cute too - - made me miss my pet cat!!!! LOL
Fabulous birdhouse and I LOVE the layout! Maybe I'll start scrappin' my kitties! xxD
ReplyDeleteWhat an adorable little birdhouse, Grace!
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