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Snow Globe Marketplace by Connie Littell
Filed under Announcements, Christmas, Connie Littell, Market Stall
Please join me in welcoming Connie Littell as a new Design Team Member! Connie has made some wonderful projects in the past as a Guest Designer (like the Artist Studio in Miniature and Cookie Houses and Hot Cocoa Bar); and the festive Snow Globe Marketplace featured today! Here’s a bit from her bio:
I’m a Georgia Tech graduate who spent her career in engineering and project management. I’ve got many years of experience as a first generation farmer and shepherd. I’ve always loved figuring out how to make things, whether it’s soap, cheese, ravioli or a miniature replica of a friend’s business. I love travel, cooking, geeky stuff and making tiny things.
Welcome, Connie! Read on for new supplies (most of which are in Connie’s market stall) plus a FREE gift with a winter theme. All of the new items AND the artwork supply list are included in the sale collection — don’t forget the sale COUPON CODE noted below for an extra 20% off!
But starting with Connie’s beautiful new artwork…
Here come the holidays! It won’t be long until snowy weather hits and we have our homes decked out for all the winter festivities. I’ve never been to any of the European holiday markets but can visualize a diverse mix of multicolored booths each one selling prettier things than the last to make your holidays bright. In that spirit I have a miniature holiday market project for Alpha Stamps to share with you today, one that features a 1:12 Scale Market Stall and a bunch of snow globes, ornaments and other tiny sparkly bits.
Note that Connie provides instructions for papering & assembling the stall on her blog post.
For the front of the stall I used one of the new Snowy Winter Village 6×6 Paper Set. This set features so many pretty little snowy scenes it was hard to choose.
With the stall ready to open for business, I set to making cute little wares and decorating little glass globes in as many ways as I could think of. The first thing I tried was coating the interior of some 12mm Round Glass Globes with metallic acrylic paint to make round pearly ornaments. [See the first wide close-up photo below.] I thinned the paint with a bit of water to make it flow easily and dripped enough inside the globe to coat the interior and set them aside to dry.
To display them I assembled the new 3-Sections Curved Display. The interior was painted brown and the exterior covered with a scrap of woodgrain paper. This piece comes with two dividers that can be glued in place wherever you want them. I elected to use just one of them. The pearly globes went on the right and a few of the 18mm Acrylic Snowflakes on the left all to be sold as ornaments.
Connie gives lots more tips on adding sparkles to glass globes on her post (from UV resin — making a mini snow globe that you can shake! — to Stickles to just filling the glass with glitter). Check below for some close-ups, too.
Here’s Connie’s BIG supply list and you can see tons more photos in her blog post!
FREE Gift with All Orders
A Winter Night Mini Kit is FREE with all orders placed today through Wednesday (ends at midnight November 20, 2024)!
Well, you knew I had to start with snowflakes! First is one of the 10mm Iridescent Color Snowflakes (a random choice of colors; also in Connie’s project — see above how she layered them over the Tiny Ornament Frame Sets).
THEN, one each of:
– Giant Snowflakes
– Antique Silver Snowflakes (random choice)
– Wreath Charms – Brass Oxide
– Gold Celestial Icons Charm Set (random choice)
They are all included in the sale, too (in case you’d like to order more)!
Snow Globe Marketplace SALE — and the COUPON CODE
Over 50 items are on sale, including:
– all the new items,
– the items in the Gift Kit,
– AND all of the supplies from Connie’s Snow Globe Marketplace
(Note: that’s over 40 supply items, from big things like the market stall to all the sizes of glass globes.)
Note: 3 more new items (not used in Connie’s project) are highlighted below (also in the sale)! Hm… I can see those wooden racks being used to turn the stall into a book shop or baked goods.
ENTER THE COUPON CODE SNOWGLOBE when checking out to get an additional 20% off on EVERYTHING in this collection! That’s 20% off beyond current sale prices — even items on clearance!
The sale ends WEDNESDAY NIGHT, November 20th at midnight PST.
