It's no secret that everyone's dreaming of a white Christmas... even those of us in Australia where it's been a wet Summer so far. Snow, crystal, clean, refreshing white snow... hmmm... but why leave it outside? And why only use quilt wadding or that weird stuff in a can... what about my beloved material; paper?I'm always putting links up on my facebook page to the 'amazing finds' I come across on the web, and that's where I recently popped the link to an amazing blog post where a paper artist converted a shopfront into an icy wonderland with nothing other than cut paper. If you missed the facebook link, follow me or pop across here.
Now, as you know, I have two toddler daughters so finding time is always tough, and I'm always challenging myself to find ways of being crafty quick-time. So when I saw the amazing paper icicles I thought, maybe I could make a mini-version for my desk. So I did, and it worked! It's certainly nowhere as dramatic and exciting as the shopfront version, but there's something rather amusing about snow oozing out of the cracks in my desk!
To make the snow I used three pieces of blank A4 paper, and cut a wibbly-woobly shape out. The beauty of it is you get two pieces per sheet, since the 'off cut' is perfectly usable. I then cut a couple of the bigger pieces in half to go over the 'straight edge' of the papers. Light plays with the paper so that some parts are pale, and others, where the paper is double thick, are darker.
It took ten minutes and cost basically nothing, and I'm thinking I might convert the alcove where our Christmas tree is into a snowy wonderland with some cupcake liner snowflakes, some icicles and of course some oozy snow!
