Department 56 Village Display Tips

Displaying Your Collectible Houses - Displays By Number
Learn how to create beautiful and memorable displays like this in
Displaying Your Collectible Houses - Displays By Number

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

Display Tips for Collectible Houses

Display Tips for Collectible Houses and its sequel, Displaying Your Collectible Houses - Displays By Number, by Elizabeth Dinger will inspire both.

In her first e-book, Display Tips for Collectible Houses, 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:

And numerous photographs are included to illustrate key points.

In Display Tips for Collectible Houses you will 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.

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

Excerpts:

"...Trees can make or break a display. Make sure you have enough. Probably a good rule of thumb is to have twice the number of trees as you do houses. Get different kinds too. But you should limit the types of trees in one diplay to three. Otherwise the trees will take over..."

"...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..."

"...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..."

Display Tips for Collectible Houses includes more than 150 tips and ideas for creating beautiful and memorable displays from start to finish.

Displaying Your Collectible Houses - Displays By Number

In her second e-book, Displaying Your Collectible Houses - Displays By Number, Elizabeth offers a unique display technique inspired by "Paint By Numbers."

Displaying Your Collectible Houses - Displays By Number, features 20 display designs including detailed diagrams and full color photos for creating small, medium, and large displays on shelves, bookcases, mantles, and tables using a "display by numbers" method.

The diagrams show placement of buildings, trees, figurines, and landscape and they are generic so you can substitute different houses and accessories but still achieve the same overall look.

Click for photos, example designs, and to receive a FREE sample of a Displays By Number diagram.

Both Display Tips for Collectible Houses and Displaying Your Collectible Houses - Displays By Number are available online for immediate download.

Buy them separately or buy them together and save!

If bought seperately, Display Tips for Collectible Houses sells for $17.56 and Displaying Your Collectible Houses - Displays By Number sells for $19.56.

However, if you act today, you can get both e-books for the special price of only $25.00 - a 33% savings!

And you will also receive the following six bonuses for creating simple accessories absolutely FREE (whether you buy them separately or together):

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