 Oh, hi there. I'm Sandy Allnok, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube. And I know it's early, but I'm going to make a gingerbread house treat box today. I know some of you are going to have your heads explode when I say I'm doing a Christmas project today, but hang tight, stick with me, okay? This really cute house box die designed by the ever amazing Julie Ebersole is for Halloween or Christmas. And I have ideas for using it all year long. But this little stamp set goes with it too. And you can put stamp little windows and doors rather than die cutting them. So with the die itself, you have to remove all the little pieces in between. There's lots of little snipping to do in this particular thing. The four across the way, those are all the walls of the house. The two top ones are the pitched roof. And then the bottom one is the bottom of the box. And I'll show you how it assembles after I get it colored. But I also want to make you aware you can do this for Halloween. This is a project that I did over on Ellen Hudson's channel at the end of this video. I will link you to that so you can see my spooky tea light houses aren't they just the cutest ever with their little battery operated tea lights inside. So I have set aside all of the windows and I'm just going to tape this down to a piece of Nina card stock because I'm going to do some cope of coloring. I put it in my misty and I'm actually stamping it on a piece of acetate first just a little piece of scrap so that I can make sure everything lines up the way that I want it. Because I am infamous for having to redo projects again and again because I didn't test them. So now I've got my stuff here. I just need to add my roof to the other side and it's ready to start my coloring. You could also do this on watercolor paper and do your waterproof ink and all that kind of fun stuff to paint things instead of cope of coloring them. The things that I'm going to paint on here the little gum drops that I'm going to paint you could do very easily in watercolor. I'll talk about that as I get to them. But the color that I'm using here these reds if you have not watched enough of my videos which I will chide you if you have not watched enough of them I always love to use my R89 for my dark and my R37 for my mid-tone. Those play nice with all the other reds and at holiday time it's always a good time to remind everybody because it's time for red things. My R14 is dying and I am infamous for not wanting to re-ink so I was trying to see how my chick could squeeze out of it and said okay to heck with it I'm just going to move on to other colors and do the darks at the top of my my pitched roof. You could also do it with the lights at the top and then work my way through my colors and I decided that I was going to have to probably go ahead and re-ink that silly marker. I don't like to stop projects in the middle and go re-ink anything. I like to just set it aside and then have one big day of re-inking everything but this time I said no I've got to get that R14 working so there's my nice simple roof because I'm going to have lots of busyness going on on the side so I wanted that roof simple but you could do the roof with all kinds of crazy colors color each one of those sections in a different color it could be really fun and for the gum drops I'm just making blobs and I'm going to stay with the traditional red and green colors but you could get all kinds of crazy with this and use all sorts of fun colors this whole house would be great in like pink and teal or just all different kinds of fun combinations so have a blast with it and put your little candies on there if you have other candy stamps combine them with this if you have like those little peppermints the little round ones stamp some of those on there just have fun decorating the house especially if you're going to keep this thing because it may be a treat box that you give away and then the person's going to throw it away don't spend a lot of time on it just die cut it call it done put a ribbon on top but if you're going to actually do something that you want to keep if it's going to be say an ornament for your tree then spend some time on it you could make all these little little gum drops in stickles or after you get the copic coloring done put some glossy accents over them there are so many ways you can really dive into a project like this and make it really really fun but if you are doing one of those things where like everybody at work is going to get a treat box on their desk watch the halloween version of the video me making the little house box because in that i'll show you how how i made multiples of the same one just using washi tape to hold them together in the right way so that you can just keep die cutting and die cutting die cutting this little house you could die cut with the little door and there's one little tree in the window and then a couple blank windows just regular normal windows with no season to them and just do the whole thing in red green or white or maybe a mix of them and put a little treat in each one for everybody at the office and all you have to do is that die cutting and quick assembly and it's going to be really easy to make a whole lot of them at once this though takes a little time so you want to make sure that this is going to be a keepsake that somebody's going to hang on to whether it's you or the person you give it to with each one of these though they're just blobs i've put a sea of dark color at the bottom a little c shape to make shadows scribbled some mid-tone color and then gone back over with my highlight color again and i'm going to do a couple other things to add some texture to them as soon as they get all the coloring done so it's going to be really cute they're going to actually look more like gum drops right now they look like i don't know little round blobs but i've got some colorless blender on a paper towel and it's a paper towel with a lot of texture in it and i'm just dabbing it just a quick press don't smush it around and it will pick up some of that texture be careful if the the little thing gets too saturated or if you start picking up color because you could transfer color and make a mess out of things so be gentle with it then it's time for assembly and i'm going to put all of my tape on the top the right hand side and the bottom there is a step that i'm going to do next that if you're going to follow this and make these little gems or little gems little gum drops then i will recommend that you do it now rather than wait until the box is assembled but i'm going to bend all the pieces you can use a bone folder and make them all crisp or you can just bend them with your fingers they work really well to bend right along the score lines that appear when you do the die cutting and the first side you'll put together is the side of the box and note that it is flat and it would fit in an envelope if you wanted to mail this to your grandchildren or something it would be really fun to send to someone else and have them assemble the box by just peeling off the tape from the top of the bottom and sticking it together so tuck those bottom flaps in attach the two on the very top those little side panels those triangle panels just kind of fit in there they just kind of stand up so nothing nowhere to tuck them in you can trim them down a little bit if they don't fit quite perfectly in there if you want them to tip in further but there is the house so far and i was thinking it needs a little something else and this is the part that i think you could do when it's flat and it would be a little bit easier i just took my white pen my little white gel pen and made some little speckles on top and you could make dark speckles on the bottom so that you get more of that roundness emphasize more but i think just putting the white speckles on the top half of each one of them is enough to make them feel like gumdrops they've got that little kind of sugary coating on them that looks really cute and then for my roof i'm just adding a little highlight onto the edge of each one of those little tiles just to add a little interest to them i don't want them to stand out too much because the main emphasis on these is on all those really sweet little gumdrops so there is the house so far and yes i'm a noodler so there's going to be one more little thing that i'm going to add because i noodle i needed a step for my door because i stamped my door too high so i just put a little red step there for somebody to walk up to the house isn't that the cutest little thing ever and then you can poke your little candies in there whatever treats you're going to give to somebody just make sure if you're going to make some cookies or something make those small enough to fit because you don't want to get to the point where you have everything ready and then your cookies don't fit inside so make little teeny tiny ones maybe little bonbons or something would be really sweet inside or just hang it on your tree you can make a whole advent calendar out of these the kids could get little treats every day so many different ways to use this so i'm going to sign off now i will see you guys next time go watch the halloween video and maybe get this die set and make yourself some boxes but i'll see you guys later