Display Tips for Your Collectible Houses

Baking soda snow makes good cord cover

Are you a new collector facing the challenge of your first display or a seasoned collector looking for new ideas?

Display Tips for Your Collectible Houses by Elizabeth Dinger will inspire both old and new.

In this e-book, Elizabeth takes you step-by-step through the entire process of creating a display. Describing the initial planning, where to put your display, how to place the houses, how to place the trees, and so on, until the last piece of snow is placed.

Topics covered include:

• Preliminary Planning
• Using a Big Display Table
• The Backdrop
• The Skirting
• The Display Base - Styrofoam
• Determining Elevation
• House Placement
• Railroads
• Other BIG Accessories
• Mountain Placement
• Placing Light Cords
• Hiding the Light Cords
• Placing the Trees
• Making and Placing Bodies of Water
• Making and Placing Roads
• Placing Street Lights
• Placing Accessories and Snow
• Snow Types
• Accessories
• Display Hints for other Displays on Furniture, Mantels, etc.
• Miscellaneous Hints – for buying, storing, taking pictures, etc.
• List of  Necessary Supplies to Have on Hand

In addition, numerous photographs are included to illustrate key points.

Small pebbles line the frozen river

Learn how to enhance your village display with Styrofoam, elevation, creative house placement, and simple to make mountains, rivers, lakes, and waterfalls using everyday materials.

All instruction is easy to implement and use items commonly found at the grocery store, hardware store, craft store, your collectible store, or in the yard.

Excerpt:

"…Rivers, waterfalls, ponds can go in next. I usually use wax paper and Reynolds Wrap for my rivers and waterfalls. I tear off as long a sheet as I will need for my river or falls and then crumple it up to produce lots of little creases. Unfold it and wrap the wax paper around the Reynolds Wrap. It’s fairly flexible and will conform to your intended streambed. I use bridges and small rocks to keep it down in place. I usually line the edges of my stream with small rocks that look like a wall…"

Display Tips for Your Collectible Houses is loaded with useful tips from start to finish.

Excerpts:

"…Florist picks, that are U shaped, are great for bringing those pesky problem cords down to the foam to later be buried with snow…"

"…I make a variety of roads. They can be made from small pieces of slate, small pebbles, ground coffee or spices. For that ‘Southern’ red dirt, try paprika…"

If you are interested in a guide that will spark your creativity I highly recommend Display Tips for Your Collectible Houses. You will find yourself referring to it again and again.

Learn to make these simple accessories

For more than 150 tips and ideas for creating a display from start to finish go to Dept56tips.com and download Display Tips for Your Collectible Houses!

Purchase today and receive the following six bonus e-books:

• Household Elegancies
• Making Stone Walls and Bridges
• Making Split Rail Fences
• Making Tombstones
• Making Cobblestone Streets
• Making Magnolias

Photographs courtesy of Dept56tips.com.