Sizzix Triple Blog Hop Week 1 "Let it Snow" Holiday Centerpiece

It’s finally here! The day we have all been looking forward to. The first installment of the Sizzix Triple Play Blog Hop. What is the Sizzix Triple Play Blog Hop you ask? Well, as I said before, three licensed designers from Sizzix, Eileen Hull, Karen Burniston and Brenda Pinnick, have put together a blog hop featuring 62 professional designers from the craft industry, including myself. Each week we will create a project from one of their Sizzix dies. We will continue for seven weeks. So, every week you can click on the button on my side bar and “hop” to each designer’s website to see what they have created with these terrific dies. That means that every week you will have the chance to see 62 different ideas from one Sizzix die, and I guarantee you will never see two projects that look alike.  The talent among this group of designers is amazing! Don’t forget to stop by each week. You’ll be glad that you did.

And now, drum roll please… I would like to show you what I created with Eileen Hull’s House Scoreboard Die.

I decided I wanted to design a centerpiece around this house die, and so I created my “Let it Snow” Holiday Centerpiece. Here’s how I did it;

Supplies

#656836 Sizzix Scoreboard Pro Die-House 3D by Eileen Hull

Sizzix Big Shot Pro cutting machine

Sizzix 12”x12” matboard- white

8 ¾”H x 11 ½”W wood base

4- Small wood candle cups

Light Green acrylic paint

Zip Dry Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Hot glue gun

Green Spanish moss

Faux snow

Miniature trees

Pattern paper

Vivid!  Dye inkpad-Corn Flower blue by Clearsnap

Christmas Epoxy stickers by Recollections

Candy canes and peppermint candy stickers by EK Success

Toothpicks

White card stock

Small sign

Snowflake garland

Small wooden fence

Small white bead

Small Square Styrofoam

Exacto knife

Scissors

Instructions

1.    Place matboard into the Sizzix Big Shot Pro die cutting machine with the Sizzix Scoreboards Pro House Die and cut out. Adhere pattern paper to each piece of the house using Zip Dry Paper Glue. Add color to the windows with Corn Flower inkpad. Assemble house according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Set aside.

2.    Paint wood base and candle cups with green acrylic paint. Let dry. Adhere candle cups to the base bottom with glue gun. Adhere Styrofoam and Spanish moss to the base with glue gun.

3.    Cut toothpicks in half and stick them to the back of the stickers. Lay stickers on white card stock. Once stickers are adhered to the card stock, cut stickers out with scissors. NOTE- I backed the stickers with card stock because I used Epoxy stickers, which are clear.

4.    Adhere toothpicks to candy canes and peppermint candies with glue gun. Add stickers to house. Adhere house to the base with glue gun. Next, glue trees, snowmen, candy canes and peppermints to the base. Glue fence around the base. Add garland around the fence.

5.    Adhere “Let it Snow” sticker and snowflake stickers to the sign. Adhere the sign to the fence. Sprinkle faux snow all around the base.

That’s it, you’re done! You now have a super cute holiday centerpiece and it only takes three to four hours to create. With the Sizzix Scoreboard House die being so easy to assemble and decorate, your family will think you spent days working on this holiday centerpiece!

Now, don’t forget to stop by each week to check out what I have created with each new die. Next week we’ll be working with Karen Burniston’s Pop-Up Twist Cube. Check it out at www.sizzix.com/product/2381  After you see what I have created, you can click on the button on my side bar and that will take you to all of the other designers and also the Sizzix website. While you’re there you might as well purchase the dies we are working with. You can then create some very cool projects of your very own!

Until next time…

Happy Stampin’

Lisa

Stampin’ Queen Creations