REVENGE OF THE KP NUT TIN!

So mission accomplished I conquered the second KP nut tin with vigour - YES!!!

It was a struggle and it almost had me heading down duplicate of first tin but I persevered (yet again) to conquer it and hopefully create a second tin which looks different from the first (please tell me it looks different!)

It started out basically the same colour as the original when it came to the painted background, but then I had to take it off in a different direction!  So out came scraps (yes literally) of papers I've used in a mini book previously, a little bit of hand cutting of the snowmen and the statements on the brown paper at the bottom, I've threaded some ribbon through the lids (with the help of hubby who didn't mind the good old fashioned hammer and setter because my cropadile wouldn't deal with the lip on the lid) and then used up (yes using up old stuff again!) some beads I've had foreverrrrrrrr - that came from a certain children's toy store - that my 9 year old wouldn't be seen in now if I paid him!  The word spelling out the contents of the tin - being gingerbread houses - just in case you don't want to tilt your head sideways! Looky - how pretty does that ribbon look through the top!

 Then the contents - please excuse the circle of white paper in the picture didn't realise it was there!

 The book itself has been threaded with ribbon this time rather than a book ring! 

I've used photos from our gingerbread houses at Christmas last year, for any of those who've followed my blog for a while you'll know that for the last two Christmases we've had a gingerbread house challenge where we build a giant gingerbread building (it was a Church 2008 and a Castle in 2009) with houses for all the family to decorate between main course and dessert on Christmas day!  This last year was no different and we had some great fun doing them so this captures some of the close ups from the day!

Isn't he cute - jelly baby on a sledge outside the castle walls!

Then the marshmallow snowman outside the castle walls

Bates Motel - generated by my Little Brother John - he said the building lent itself to this!

Including an icing massacre! 

Then Bate's Motel in all it's glory

and the jelly baby soldier guarding the draw bridge on the castle

and the jelly baby army guarding the top of the castle

and then there's dear hubby - who puts up with my crazy ideas even when I up the goal every year and he really doesn't mind cooking gingerbread until the late hours in early December and then putting the buildings together! 

I've had a great weekend, bits done around the house, ironing pile conquered!  Time with family, crafting time, blogging time, a bit of geo-caching time and stuck to my slimming world plan it doesn't get much better than this!  I've read my stars for this week and it's indicating disruption - I don't normally read such trivia but the ones in the Times newspaper have been spot on recently - so I'm a little apprehensive as to what this week might bring me!  We'll have to see, I'll let you know if they were a load of non-sense or whether they had a point!

KP NUT TINS - FIRST ONE FINISHED!!!!

Yes you heard right, I've fought and battled but finally the first tin has been wrestled into submission!  And here is the first one finished

And yet again I seem to be following my 'avatar' inspired painting at the minute

Just to remind you it started out as 

I then started with glue and tried sticking some 'unwanted' scrapbook papers on it, but I didn't like them once I'd done that, so I tried to paint over it with dark purple paint - but I didn't like that either - but I stuck with it and repainted it again got hubby to cut me some tags so then I ended up with this and yes that is it's unfinished twin on the right!

Then for adding photos to the tags, I've chosen to used the detailed shots from Chatsworth to go with the altered book I did on this mornings post! 

I used the blue awning papers from K & Company to bring the outside together, and hand painted the writing in white and finished with some distress inks to tone it down a little. 

 A little bit of white faux stitching and eyelets and stitching through some of the tags, finished with a book ring and some more organza ribbon

 I'm so pleased with the finished project 

 The next challenge will be to make the other tin look different even though it's a similar colour - now there's a challenge! 

Thought I'd put this on just to prove you sometimes just need to persevere to make something come good!