Reindeer Frames on a Christmas Mantel
- Pencil; tracing paper
- Scissors or crafts knife
- Two 12-inch squares of black card stock
- Two 12-inch squares of white card stock
- Paper punches: circle; large and small snowflakes
- French curves template
- Three 12-inch squares of blue solid or subtly patterned scrapbook paper
- Glue stick
- 11x14-inch card stock, any color
- Kneaded eraser
- Two 9x12-inch black frames
- 11x14-inch black frame
- Trace deer and tree patterns onto tracing paper. Cut out and trace onto black card stock. Cut out a total of eight deer and one tree using scissors or a crafts knife.
- Punch out large holes from black and white card stock with circle punch. Punch out small holes and snowflakes from white card stock. Set aside.
- For snowbanks, use French curves template to draw random curves along the straight edge of white card stock. Make the curves at least 2 inches thick at their narrowest point. Cut out with scissors.
- For the 11x14-inch frame, trim the blue paper to measure 11x12 inches. Use the glue stick to attach it to the 11x14-inch piece of cardstock, aligning it at the top and sides. The snowbank will cover the gap at the bottom edge of the paper.
- Glue the snowbanks at the bottom of the page.
- Trim the remaining two blue sheets to 9x12 inches.
- Attach the snowbanks to the bottom of these pages. Overlap the pieces to create dimension.
- To help determine the layouts, lay the three pieces on a work surface and line them up across the bottom. This will help make the design continuous from one frame to the next.
- Using a pencil, lightly freehand-draw the path of the reindeer to use as a guide for the black dots.
- Lay all pieces on the backgrounds to achieve the desired look. Adhere the pieces in place with the glue stick. Glue on snowflakes and white dots.
- Erase any pencil marks with a kneaded eraser. Insert the finished piece into each corresponding picture frame.
I love this idea. Thank you so much for the great idea and the patterns-I made pillows out of them and I think they turned out pretty dang cute. http://trophyw.blogspot.com/2011/12/reindeer-panel-pillows.html
12/3/2011 07:42:16 PM Report AbuseI can't believe you guys are posting this again without fixing the issues from last year. Doesn't anyone at BHG receive the comments posted?
10/10/2011 12:22:55 PM Report AbuseSure would like the correct tree. Would hate to see the reindeer hit into this nasty thing. It loses a lot to put the tree given into the frame - more Halloween than Christmas.
11/30/2010 02:45:23 PM Report AbuseI even wrote a letter to the editor and managing editor of Better Homes and Gardens hoping they could get someone to fix this. But I've heard nothing back.
11/20/2010 06:26:39 PM Report AbuseThis is a JOKE! Martha Stewart is secretly laughing at Better Homes and Gardens! I made an 8 foot witch using a Martha tutorial and had NO PROBLEMS...these direction are horrible!
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