Making up and decorating a wooden Christmas house

This is one of a set of beautiful little houses which can be made up and decorated in any style you like. As it's November I thought I'd decorate this one as a little Christmas house.  The finished house measures 19.5 cm tall by 23cm wide.

 You will need;

3D Wood Puzzle House (43.1F3010.119)

PVA glue

Plaid Folk Art Chalk Paint - Tuscan Red for roof and Imperial for doors

Plaid Folk Art Acrylic Paint - Wicker White, Country Twill

Plaid Folk Art Extreme Glitter

Plaid Folk Art Painted Finishes - Concrete and Moss

Trimcraft First Edition Garland dies - FEDIE189X17

Simply Creative 3mm red gems and 3mm sliver pearls

3D Snow Effect

vellum

 1. The house in the packaging.

 2. Identify the pieces

 3. Marking each board (A,B,C) makes the next steps much easier to follow.

 4. Select these pieces. (A,A, B)

 5. Slot together and glue in place.

6. Select these pieces (A,B,B)

 7. Slot together and glue in place.

 8. Select these pieces (B,B)

 9. Slot together and glue in place.

 10. Select these pieces. (A ,C)

 11. Glue the window frame in place. Slot the ramp in place and glue.

 12. Select this piece. (A)

13. Slot together and glue in place.

 14. Select these pieces. (A,B,B)

 15. Slot together and glue in place.

 16. Select this piece. (C)

 17. Slot together and glue in place.

 18. Select the two large roof pieces.(C)

 19. Slot together and glue in place.

 20. Select the final roof piece. (A)

 21. Slot together and glue in place.

22. I removed the pieces marked with a star from the board (B) with a craft knife, painted them red and glued into the door openings, adding silver pearls as door knobs.

To decorate the house I painted the outside with acrylic paint, then painted the roof with Tuscan Red Chalk Paint. I used Concrete Painted Finishes around the outside base and ramp at the front door, added touches of both light and dark Moss Painted Finish randomly over the house and added lots of 3D Snow Effect with Extreme Glitter on top. I cut pieces of vellum and glued onto the inside of each window. Finally I added die cut garlands around the windows and added red gems on top.