I know that most of my regulars (and irregulars) are super busy today, but just in case you've finished wrapping, baking, visiting, and ELF watching, and finally have a moment for yourself, grab your peppermint mocha, pull up a seat, and view the team's posts for Dreamweaver Thursday.
I'm featuring my gingerbread house that I created two years ago, and stenciled. Yes, stenciled. I had purchased a pre-baked gingerbread house kit from IKEA, and went at it with everything in my stash of Dreamweaver products...which is a LOT!
Each wall was ink-stenciled using the Stone Wall stencil with Tuxedo Black and Rich Cocoa Memento inks. The chimney pieces were paste-embossed with a mix of Regular Embossing Paste and red acrylic paint. The leftover mix was painted over the window frames and the door.
The roof pieces were were paste-embossed with the Small Scales stencil design using Regular Embossing Paste, and covered with Multi Crystal Glitter Mix from Stampendous. The window "panes" were each paste-embossed with Translucent Paste using the Dreamweaver Hawaii Quilt Combo design. I added dabs of the same paste along the edges of the "eaves" for icicles. All items were set aside to dry overnight.
To adhere all of the pieces together, I used more of the Regular Embossing Paste, dabbed on with a palette knife, and covered with more
glitter. I added a few dabs to the window sills as well, and bank of it
around the base of the house. The entire house was adhered to a slate
plaque that I had in my
crafting stash, and just happened to be the perfect size. The roof
pieces were pasted together at the top, but not attached to the house.
Instead, I stuck straight pins through the top edge of the walls so that
the roof/lid would rest on top, but I could still access the inside. I
placed flame-less tealights inside for display purposed. Though this
project looks good enough to eat, no one would want to, but it does
smell nice and ginger-bready. After the holiday, I sprayed the outside
with a satin finish to seal it for display in years to come
Check out how our team is "wrapping up Christmas" for today. Have a wonderful Christmas Eve and Christmas to those who celebrate, and a happy holidays to everyone!
5 comments:
So wonderful !!!! It looks good enough to eat. What creative ideas you have!
Merry Christmas!
Sandy xx
That is super cute! Thanks for sharing it with us. Have a Happy Holiday!
STUNNING! This is awesome, wow such a creative use of stencils for decorations. Thank you for sharing your talent and creativity with us this week! Have a wonderful holiday!
I don't think that I can come up with a word that describes how amazing I think this is!!! I absolutely love it and am going to see if hubby will scoot to the store to see if he can find em a gingerbread house kit on clearance!! That way I don't have to wait till next year to try this!! Thanks for the inspiration and Happy New Year!
Such a wonderfully detailed gingerbread house. I love your use of stencils, especially to decorate the little windows. Hope your 2016 New Year is full of warm blessings.
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