It's just amazing how many things that you can create with this awesome suite, I haven't even touched the tip of the iceberg yet! However I am going to put it away for a while so that I can play with all of the other gorgeous suites that I have recently purchased.
Today's special project was inspired by someone's work that I saw on Instagram, but sadly I don't remember who. They had created a 3D Eiffel Tower using the dies and they had placed it in a glass dome. It sparked an idea in me because I too had bought a glass dome from Ikea several years ago, in anticipation of making a Beauty and the Beast dimensional rose to place in it. Sadly, I never got round to making it. However, I struck whilst the iron was hot and decided to create a light up Eiffel Tower. Unfortunately, it's really difficult to capture it in photography, well by my standards anyway, but here it is.
I just created a TeePee card from vellum using 3" squares. There are many tutorials out there to use. I then die cut the Eiffel Tower three times from champagne foil card stock from Stampin' Up!The base was a bit more tricky, but I just cut a circle with a die and a smaller one inside to the size of a battery operated candle. Then with an A4 length strip of card cut at about 2" wide and scored at ½" down the length and scored at every ½" interval so that I could create tabs. I adhered this to the circle and just cut off the excess. I decorated it with the die cut words, flowers and hearts.
Unfortunately, it wasn't quite stable enough to sit on the top of the platform, so I made some tabs which I stuck to the vellum and then to the base. This helped it to stay put when I placed the dome over the top. I hope you like it, it's something a little different and I'm hoping to try it with some small battery operated LED lights when I get some.
Happy Crafting
Love Sarah. xx
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