Monday 15 September 2014

Lemax Christmas Village Dept 56

I know its only September, but the build has started, the Christmas Village 1st piece is put in place. I need it to be bigger to the left hand side and 2 tiered so the building continues

My OH is not really a DIY person so much planning and drawing has taken place. I know what my village must look like. Theres so many scraps of paper hanging about with ideas and drawings on them. I must organise them better. 

Whats in my head is not necessarily what I can translate for him to build

So watch this space

The first piece


It doesnt look much. But I think this is the third attempt at putting legs on and building a frame

In a previous post, I was going to build a barge scene into the village for a British feel, on reflection, I have decided to forget this idea as I`ve seen a ship for sale in America and am currently waiting for it to be imported, so have decided to go with the sea and harbour idea. 

The reason for this is because I`ve seen some telephone boxes and red post boxes I want which will provide the British feel

Also I want a ski lift / cable car , I have to re-think things a bit

I did purchase some cable cars, but they`re too small. So have them on ebay and will re-think that idea


Friday 12 September 2014

Cadburys Dairy Milk Minitures - Santa

These are not difficult to make and are a firm favourite with my family

Firstly take some CDM minitures



Cut some red papers 


65 mm x 35 mm
At this point I like to leave the purple wrappers on, but remove them if you with
Wrap the CDM in double sided tape


When wrapped they will look like this


You can still see the gold wrapper inside


Cut a strip of black paper, I have not specified a size here as its personal choice 
Mine is 10mm


Attach to the red paper using double sided tape



 I then cut some buckles to place over the belt


The CDM looks like this finished


I packaged up my Cadburys Dairy Milk as shown with a cello bag and hand written label


Tuesday 9 September 2014

Christmas is a coming - Santa Candy Canes

I have found another use for my candy canes. I`ve made them to hang on the tree or just to give as a little treat. 

I started with :-

A candy cane
Some scalloped circles , punched using a punch
A pink circle
A white circle 
Some white petals
A red ribbon


Fold the white scalloped circle down from the top and glue to a red scallop


Cut part of a pink circle to make a `face` (use a stamp pad to go around the edges to make the face pop) then stick to the white scallop 


Glue the white nose and petals to the face as shown


This one below has been `popped` the one above hasn't, which one do you prefer?



Use a red marker to draw a mouth onto Santa
Attach googly eyes




Fasten onto the candy cane, I used double sided tape and glue, the double sided to position on the cane and the glue for longevity


Attach one of the red circles at the back to neaten it up and to make the Santa more sturdy


Finish with a red ribbon


Here`s a twist, making a reindeer and a snowman, using the above technique