A creative project from Maxines Melange

Here's our class kit for our afternoon delight - and half the night too though we didn't realise at this stage! It's a small bag of treasure with a big sprinkling of magic all sealed in tiny plastic bags and ready to assemble... :)

Take a bag of bits, 5 hours of painting and glueing and hey presto, I've made one of Maxine's Creative Christmas albums. If ever there was a reason to enjoy the creative journey, it was right now! These kits are beautifully put together and include chipboard shapes, German scraps of lace, decorative papers, die-cut shapes and all you need are basic tools and a lot of patience to put one of these projects together.

Here's the front of the box complete with lace covered window shutters. It's surprising what skills come in useful when I'm crafting! I used my extensive bathroon tiling skills to good use to put spacers between the chipboard box sides so the gap is the correct width.

I love these German scraps. All the need is some careful handling, a little bit of paint and distressing with gold rub-on paste or inking to turn a plain Christmas window box into an aged, Vintage masterpiece!

Here's the result of 3 hours faffing with paper and glue! Every little piece has been cut, painted, stuck, painted, sanded and layered to make a box frame with a window effect.

Voila! It's assembled with front, spine and back as well as decorative wooden holly leaves, crown and German scraps.

I love the idea of having a Paris Christmas scene in the window. This tiny pack of chipboard tree, stars and snowflakes is deceptively small at around 5cm square. Each delicately die-cut piece needs pushing out, covering and sticking to the Paris scene background.

 Wet glue is great for sticking the chipboard and paper elements together. Polymer glue is best for attaching the cocktail stick tree and all these tiny elements to the Paris background. A bit of stickles glitter glue and it's ready to stick to the back of the front of the box.

The final touches are the Paris scene with glittering stars and xmas tree which sits at the back of the window and the final flourish of highlights added in gold and bronze rub-on paste.

I like making three dimensional projects because they're a real challenge and something quite different from making just a card. I can feel another Maxine's Melange coming on :) x