North Pole Express Train set

I mentioned in the post before this that I had made two train sets as Christmas decorations this year and I only posted photos of the first set I made in the previous post. I am so happy with the way this set turned out that I had to do a post on its own just to show you this set.

I used the Vintage Christmas paper set from Couture Creations and I loved making this project. Not only is it a train set that will look beautiful on the mantel piece but it is gifts boxes as well. This project could be used as a  gift box or a  table centrepiece but I am going to put it on my mantel piece and have bought electronic tea light candles to place in the inside so that it glows.

 This is the completed set with Engine, box cart and caboose.

 A closer look at the front Engine, decorated with red and bronze rhines, gold brads and gold line stickers and a few Christmas buttons. The red part of the train in the box lid which comes off and you can use as a gift box or place the tea candles.

 The middle box cart, also decorated with red and bronze rhinestones and gold line stickers and a decorative 25 for Christmas day. The boxes inside the cart is also part of the SVG set from SVG Cuts and it is nestled in red tissue paper.

 The caboose is also a box, the red roof is removable. The windows are vellum so it will give a really nice glow once the tea candles are flickering inside. The windows are decorated with gold line stickers and some Christmas brads.

 Front few of the train set, showing off the vintage button placed in front for the headlight

A closer look at the headlight. This has turned out to be my favourite Christmas decoration this year and  I will be storing this away very carefully to use in years to come!

Thank you for stopping by and do pop back around soon!!

Valerie

25 days to Christmas

Greetings all, This is one of the projects that is on my to-do-list that I never got round to for Christmas this year.

I bought a SVG file from the Lori Whitlock blog  for an Advent calendar/25 day countdown to Christmas and really wanted to make this but did not get to it. I have been playing with the sizes of this file to make it the size I wanted and that has taken the most time. I have to confess that I have glued the boxes shut so that you cannot open them. The reason why I did that is because when putting them together I had a clever thought that turned out to be a really stupid one which resulted in my box's not staying shut. I figured I would use this as an example and remake another one at a later stage but figured I would post the end result anyway!!

Hope you like:

The blue frame is like a box about 2" deep. The outside is 9 1/2" x 9 1/2" and the inside square is 7" x 7".
The little box's inside are 1 1/4" squares and attached together to keep them together and also attached to the back sheet of paper. The snowflakes are cut from white cardstock with silver glitter glue and cream pearls. The three big ones are matted with silver mirror cardstock. The Christmas tree is cut from light blue cardstock also matted with silver mirror cardstock. Decorated with crystal stickles and small cream pearls.
The lettering is Nutmeg American CRaft thickers. The box's are decorated with Christmas paper (brand unknown) and stamped with small snowflakes and embossed with silver embossing powder.

If you want to make this project for yourself go to:  www.loriwhotlock.com/blog/die-cutting and purchase the file from her online shop.

Thank you for looking