Christmas Gingerbread House Easel …………

I decided that I really needed to use up the very last three easels I got from Home Bargains (now sadly no longer available), rather than have them lingering in my craft drawers until goodness knows when……

……… and this is what I came up with ………

The wooden gingerbread house embellishments came from Hobbycraft (Christmas 2020, I just never got round to using them).

I started with a little faux stitching using a fine, black Sharpie pen round the blackboard edge and the sentiment using a white Posca pen.

This was followed by sticking the houses and a wooden Christmas trees on either side of the easel.  I’ve had the trees a while, I’m sorry I can’t remember where from, but I wouldn’t mind a few more!

I put a layer of Ranger Glossy Accents on the front of the house and the tree to give extra dimension and shine …….

……. followed by white Dovecraft 3D Pearl Effects (Poundland £1) on the house roofs and easel shelf to look like snow.

While the “Effects” were setting, I also put three small plastic snowflakes in position, noting that I really need to order some more snowflakes from China for next year’s Christmas crafting.

I then needed to be patient and allow everything to dry, before adding a little more doodling fiddle fart to the blackboard and tree.

The gingerbread men came next (from a confetti pack from Paperchase). From experience, I discovered that they warped slightly under a layer of wet Glossy Accents, but by gluing three together, they became far more substantial and no longer easily damaged.

The smoke coming from the chimney was a tiny amount of cushion filling glued behind the house.

More waiting then ensued for the gingerbread men to dry before finally adding a light dusting of ultra fine translucent glitter to the dry 3D Effects on the roof and shelf and clear flat backed gems in the centre of the snowflakes and a red flay back heart on the house front.

Et voila …….. a limited edition of three ……. and something a tiny bit different.