Materials…

• Maya Road Mementos Villa
• Fancy Pants Botanical papers, borders, ribbons and rub-ons
• Tulip Making Memories Scrapbook Colors
• Buttons
• Flower punch metal brad
• Crystal Ranger Stickles glitter glue

To create…

1 Use the house, roof and chimney as templates to draw around onto patterned paper.

2 Paint all the elements of the house with two layers of Tulip paint allowing drying time between each application.

3 Cut out the patterned paper pieces you created in step 1.

4 Attach the patterned paper to the outer four walls of the house. (We used a Xyron Creative Station with a permanent adhesive cartridge for this bit…the adhesive is instant, mess free and gives an even coverage.)

5 Cut a piece of blue paper to sit behind the window frames and attach as shown.

6 Apply rub-ons to the door, fix a brad in place for the door knob, and attach to the house using 3D foam pads.

7 Attach the window to the front of the house and decorate the frame with punched flowers. Glue a button to the centre of each flower.

8 Cover the roof with patterned paper making sure that you cut the hole for the chimney stack.

9 Cover the chimney stack with patterned paper and fix a border along the top edge. Attach the chimney stack to the roof.

10 Highlight the roof with glitter glue and add buttons as shown.

Project by Diane Grimshaw. Originally published in Creative Cardmaking issue 2.