Reindeer Mini Easel Christmas Favours

These easels very nearly didn’t get made  …………

…….. despite my thinking I had made more than enough fairings to send this year in place of a Christmas card, I found that I was still short of a few bits and pieces that could be sent flat as a large letter, aggghhhhhhh ………

……. but then my mind turned to the silver glitter easels I bought in Burnham On Sea a week or so ago (£1 for a pack of 4) and the wooden reindeer embellishments I bought from The Works a while ago, no problemo!

However, nothing could prepare me for the glitter the mini easels shed, I think you can see just how much from the background of some of the pictures. To be honest, I thought that they were just too tacky to use, but something told me to persevere, perhaps thinking of the six packs I had already invested in.  I started with the text using a fine white Posca pen, totally unconvinced I could make them work.

After the addition of the reindeer heads and plastic snowflakes and much brushing down, I began to chill a little ……..

……. they were beginning to come together, despite my misgivings.

It was the googly eyes and red flat pearl noses that bought the reindeer to life that finally did it, along with the added clear flat back gems in the middle of the snowflakes and gaps on the blackboard filled with clusters of three white dots.

I had pulled it off, somehow the reindeer pull your eyes away from the tackiness of the glitter but on looking at them with fresh eyes, the glitter makes them, it says Christmas ........does that makes sense???????

So making more is now very much on the cards ........

........ I just need to check how many reindeer I have left ……….