Gifts for the Girls

Gifts for Girls

Hi There!

Hope your week is going

well.  Mine's a bit topsy

turvy.............!

"No change there then" I

hear you say...

.....I seem to have an extra

Gift for the Girls and not

enough Icons (starts tomorrow)

How did that come about?

Don't ask, just enjoy as

Louise Thomson brings you

a delightful extra "gift"

"Previously I have made little wooden 

bird houses in to Christmas tree

 decorations and I had thought I might

 do the same with these adorable 

little ArtC ones. 

At my hubby's suggestion I changed my

 mind and decided to make a baby girls

 mobile but as the project progressed 

it somehow turned in to a decorative 

wall hanging!! 

At least that means there are plenty

 more ideas for future sets!

I started by laying out the bird houses 

and painting one side with fresco chalk paint.

The houses were easily assembled 

and glued using pva. 

I painted the outside in Fresco Pixie Dust paint 

and made little hooks for them by twisting

 wire around some round nosed pliers.

I found some cute scraps of paper for 

the roof and cut them to size. 

I pushed the wire loops through the

 paper strips and glued them down

I can't tell you how much I adore

 these little things!

I put scraps of paper in the back and 

stamped a carabelle stamp on to

 some painted card

 adding tiny pieces to the houses

I cut a few more paper scraps to make

 'nesting material' and bunting. 

I painted a few kaisercraft wooden flourishes

 to go with the houses and assembled

 everything with ribbons and thread, 

tied on to a twig from the garden."

Materials;

Art C mini birdhouse set

Fresco paints

Wire

Archival ink

Carabelle wild nature stamp

PaperArtsy stamp

Kaisercraft wooden flourishes

Ribbons

Thank you Louise, this project

is a joy and lends itself to so

many occasions 

I have to confess to having a

set of these little houses sitting on

my desk in the guise of

a "work in progress" ...............

Now I know exactly what I

shall make with them....

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx