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You can order this NEW stamp set from the new catalog in just 3 MORE DAYS!!! For the background, I used embossing paste and the brick wall stencil. I added some color to the paste with our ink refills.
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| Birdhouse BOX I made yesterday. Directions below. |
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| What a great gift box! |
I've made birdhouses before, but never a birdhouse box! What a great idea! A fellow Demo from across the pond, Karen Pearmain (https://www.craftylittlemissk.co.uk/) made a video that you can see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AbjJV6rtL0&feature=youtu.be
Base: cut a pieces of thick
cardboard, like mat-board or the backing from a paper pad 3-1/2” x
3-1/2” covered with Wood Textures DSP
Box Base: cardtock 5-3/8” x
5-3/8” score @ 1-1/2” on all four sides
House: cardstock 11” x 5”
score @ 2-1/2,” 5,” 7-1/2,” 10.” Then notch along long edge
with scoring tool @ 1,” 1-1/2,” 3-3/4,” 6,” 6-1/2,” 8-3/4.”
Mark 3-1/2” down each short side, then lightly draw a pencil line
across. (I stamped mine with Crackle Paint)
Roof: cardstock 6” x 3”
scored @ 3” (I embossed mine with Pinewood Planks embossing folder)
Roof Cap: 3” x 1” scored @
1/2”
Base – cut and glue box base,
then adhere to the heavy mat-board base.
House – at the 3-3/4” and
8-3/4” notches, score diagonally out to where the score lines meet
the pencil lines. At the other notch marks, cut down to pencil line.
Once everything has been cut correctly, it should look like
illustration below.
Using the smallest layering circle die,
cut the hole for the front of the bird house. Reinforce this by
cutting a ring using the two smallest circle dies. Glue the bird
house together, then using the tabs, adhere the roof.
***********************************************************************I found the bird houses below on Pinterest as jpegs. I enlarged them on Photoshop and converted to a PDF and saved on Box. I've listed the sources below.
- small square bird house Source Sweet Charli http://www.sweetcharli.com/2013/07/paper-bird-houses-whimsical.html. This one is in the perfect size, just click on the link to Box where Charli put the file.
- fat bottom birdhouse found on pinterest with no web source the image id is: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b4/da/a0/b4daa0aac82d870d8177d6d52ce228f4.jpg
- cubby house House Interior Design http://www.house-interior-designs.net/bird-house-box-template/
- birdhouse box Gudruns Papirblog http://papirbloggen.blogspot.com/search/label/home%20for%20christmas?updated-max=2009-11-27T14:58:00%2B01:00&max-results=20
- birdhouse template the source page is in Spanish: http://comienzoysigo.blogspot.com/2011/05/casa-de-pajarito-para-el-arbol-de.html