Christmas HouseBy Barbara Parker

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MATERIALS REQUIRED:Thin Card: Red, Dark Green,Green, Mirri Gold and White.

Red Vivelle: VIV20A4.

3D Découpage Paper: DC003 and DC005.

Background Paper: BP029 Christmas Trees.

Gold Label Stickers: Plain;XL283U-01 Wording, XL562U-01Numbers, XL563U-01 Lettersand XL295U-01 Diamond Border. Glitter; ZL608U-55 Holly Borders,ZL184U-55 Christmas Trees.

1cm Square Paper Punch (Optional).

Tracing Paper.

Craft Knife, Ruler and Cutting Mat.

Glitter Glue in Various Colours.

Mini Fixers and P.V.A. Craft Adhesive.

Card Mount: SF01U-46 Hammer Cream.

TO MAKE THE CARD:Begin by cutting an aperture into the card for the

window, mark out an 84 x 70mm oblong in the posi-tion shown on the diagram. Unfold the card, place ona cutting mat and then carefully cut out the oblong.

Cut the window frame beginning with a piece ofred card cut to 76mm x 90mm. Cut four panes intothis at 37mm x 30mm leaving a 4mm bar betweeneach pane and 6mm all around the edge as shown in the diagram below. Run a very narrow line of gluearound the aperture and stick the frame in place.

Trace all the lines from the door diagram. Transferjust the complete outermost line to a piece of redcard to make a solid red shape. Move the tracing to a new area of red card and transfer both the outerline and inside frame lines. On green card, transferthe outer door line and panel lines and on gold cardthe letterbox lines. Cut out all the shapes then cutaround and remove the door panels.

Glue the red solid shape to the card front placing it about 1cm from the window frame and with thebottom edge against the card edge. Add mini fixersto the back of the red frame and stick it in place directly over the solid red shape. Add mini fixers tothe back of the door and place it inside the red frameto complete the door assembly.

Cut 6 little triangle shapes from white card asshown in the diagram below and stick a Christmastree to each one, making sure to place the tree sothe white shows through all the holes but not aroundthe edges. Colour each bauble hole with gel pens oranything else suitable. Use sticky fixers to mountthem in a nice straight row about 4mm up from thebottom of the card. Cut 6 little red tubs and sticky fixthese along the bottom of thecard with the tops just coveringthe bottom of each tree trunk.

I used a large, gold peel offdot for the doorknob, you canuse a hole punch on gold cardif you prefer. Sticky fix this intoplace on the door. Add the hollyborder around the window and

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around the door frame and the numbers in the archabove the door.

Make a wreath as follows using the border stripshown below. Cut one pair of leaves and berry fromthe strip and place it sticky side up on the cuttingmat. Cut another pair and place it next to the first,slightly overlapping the leaf tips and at an angle to form a half square. Add two more pairs to these toform the whole square held together by the leaf tips.

Cut another pair of leaves from the strip and stickover the first ones so they are sticky sides together,keep the left hand tip of the this pair lifted slightly.Add 3 more pairs and tuck the tip of the last pairunder the first as shown to make a neat finish. Add alittle red glitter glue to each berry and set aside to dry before placing on the door with sticky fixers.

Open the card and work on the inside back panel.Cut a piece of Christmas tree background paper to11cm x 21cm and glue this to the panel with the topedge along the fold, the ends will overlap slightly butwill be trimmed in a moment. Cut a strip of red Vivelleto 3.5cm x 21cm, peel the backing and stick alongthe bottom edge of the panel.

Cut a strip of dark green card to 1cm x 21cm and gluealong the top edge of the Viv-elle to overlap the Christmastree paper and make a skirtingboard. Trim the sides of the papers to the card edges.

Next work the bear dé-coupages. For the first layer ofboth cut away the backgroundsand sticky fix to the card thenwork the rest as suits you. Usethe picture from DC003 to deco-rate the wall. Before sticking the stars, hearts and baubles on the final layer I colouredthem all with glitter glue.

Cut a 9mm wide strip of redand another of green card. Cutthese into 9mm lengths to make

StickySide Up

Lift Tuck

7 little red squares and 7 green then just snip off thecorners of each square. If you have a small squarepunch you could use that instead.

Stick a diamond border across the top of the back-ground and add a star to each end. Make this into abanner using alternating green and red squares withgold letter stickers to make the Christmas message.

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