The Robin's Nest/Helmar Home for the Holidays Blog Hop

Hello everyone, and welcome to this special Home for the Holidays blog hop featuring The Robin's Nest and Helmar products.   I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful group of designers from both design teams, and I hope you find lots of inspiration here for your holiday crafting.  Be sure to visit each blog, leave a comment, become a follower, and you will automatically be entered to win a prize from each blog, as well as from  The Robin's Nest blog, The Chattering Robins, and Helmar.   So get some coffee, pull up a chair, and enjoy the hop.

When I think of going home for the holidays, I think of warm gatherings with my family, steamy windows, great home cooking, and lots of love.  So, in keeping with this theme, I found this paper mache box that I wanted to turn into a box with a hinged lid.

So, I first had to remove the excess paper mache from around the bottom piece.  I made some hash marks along the piece I wanted to remove.   See picture below.

Then, I covered the bottom of the boxwith Winter Retreat Glitter Swirl with Snowflakes Cardstock  and Calamity Jane Diagonal Glittered Cardstock for the roof.  This paper is absolutely gorgeous, and it reminds me of aged copper that has that beautiful blue green patina.  Here is what the finished box looks like.

If you look closely, you can see Santa in front of the fireplace.

I corrugated the Winter Retreat Glitter Swirl with Snowflakes Cardstock and used the reverse side to cover the chimney and the front eave.  I used the Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to glue the corrugated paper so that it would not flatten the corrugations.   This is a fantastic glue that sets and dries quickly.  It holds strongly and also dries clear and is acid free.  I also used the Helmar Gem Adhesive to apply the dew drops.  This was also a fantastic glue for this purpose.

Front Roof, Corrugated Chimney, German Scrap & Dew Drops

I used some resin window pieces, but had to make my own door using part of one of my window resin pieces.  I added German scrap along the roof line, and I painted not only the windows, but also the German scrap with acrylic paints.

This little box could be used as a recipe card holder, but I chose to make a mini album to keep inside.  

Here are a few pictures of the book and some of the inside pages.

Front Cover

Inside cover and Vellum Envelope with snowflake embossing

Page 1 with punched strip to hold tag

Dymo Labels painted to look like copper

Inside Back Cover, wooden tree ornament

 Here are a couple of tags I made to insert into the vellum envelopes.  I used Robins Egg Blue Glitter paper and folded it in half.  You can then write notes, recipes, traditions to remember, funny or memorable things, pictures, you name it.  In the picture below, I used one of the gold journal tags, cut it out, folded it in half around the tag, and only glued the ends so that I could insert these tiny little tags beneath the journal tags.  Just more room to keep memorabilia.

Vellum envelope tag with tags.

 This tag is also folded in half and I used a snowflake rubon in the corner.  It is waiting for more memorable things to be saved on it.

Folded tag with snowflake rubon

Robin's Nest Products Used:

Calamity Jane Diagonal Glittered Cardstock

Winter Retreat Glitter Swirl with Snowflakes Cardstock

Glitter Reindeer Stripe

Robin's Egg Blue Glitter Cardstock

Snowflake Rub On 

Hillside Mini Dew Drops 

Cherry Chocolate Dew Drops

I hope you are enjoying the blog hop.  Don't forget to leave comment and become a follower to be entered to win one of the fantastic prizes.  And be sure to visit The Robin's Nest online store for more fabulous products.  Thanks so much for visiting today, and enjoy your weekend.

Barbara