The Cabin in the Woods

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "Buttons".  I had recently watched a couple of movies with cabins in woods in them - Cabin in the Woods and Hansel and Gretel: Witchhunters and wanted to combine elements of both in this piece.  I had the idea of decorating this house-shaped money box, including the additions of buttons as roof tiles, hoping to give a slight feel of the house made of candy from Hansel and Gretel.  Needless to say, the buttons were far too thick and weren't at all suitable, but thankfully I had my Martha Stewart buttons punch nearby, so the project was rescued! :)  The punched cardstock buttons work much better as shingles!

I started with the roof, painting it with Black Soot Distress Paint (my first time of trying it - it was a little runnier than I expected but it had a beautiful finish when it dried and I think that's why.  If it was thicker it probably would have shown more of the brush strokes).

I punched (hundreds, or it felt like it!) of buttons from white and grey cardstock and then spritzed them with various Color Wash sprays and left them to dry.  I used my ATG gun to run strips of adhesive across the roof and pressed the shingles into place.  I topped it off with some "flashing" cut from a stamped image of Darkroom Door's Corrugated Iron stamp, coloured with Gathered Twigs distress ink.

I cut panels of white cardstock to cover the walls and stamped them with the Corrugated Iron stamp too, colouring them with Gathered Twigs and some weathered Distress Ink coloured applied with a water brush.  The door was stamped with DD's Woodgrain background stamp and coloured in the same way.  The door handle is actually a button brad, though you probably can't tell that in the photo!  I finished it off with a number Plaquette.

The mouth and eye in the windows were taken from Tim Holtz's Classics #5 set and the window ledges were cut from the Woodgrain stamp.

Supplies I used included:

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