A Cigar Box Christmas Diorama

I create Christmas dioramas every year to sell at the Shaker Holiday Craft Show. Throughout the year I keep my eye out for good “junk” that I can turn into attractive scenes. I use other crafty Christmas supplies, too, like garland, bottle brush trees, and deer.

Santa and a deer in a winter wonderlandAn old wooden cigar box made the perfect “container” for the one I’m going to show you today.

old cigar boxThe photo ‘s a bit blurry, but you get the idea–old and crusty. After I cleaned it up, it sat on my work bench for quite a while. One day I set some trees inside, another day, a deer, and so on I went, until I came up with a scene that I liked.

Before adhering the vintage Santa, deer, and bottle brush trees, I gave the interior one coat of antique white craft paint, to make it look wintery. Then I hot glued a strand of red garland (Target) all the way around the edge.

vintage santa and deer in winter wonderlandI also added a knob to the top, which seemed to add a lot of character to the piece and made it easy to pick up and set down. I drilled a hole, inserted the knob shank into the hole, and bolted it in place.

Mini Wreath with bottle brush treeOn the back “wall” I added a mini wreath made with the tinsel and decorated it with a tiny bottle brush tree.

Vintage cigar box diorama with santa and a deerHere you see it sitting in my booth at the craft fair. It sold fairly early on for $25.00. Stay tuned, because I have a couple more dioramas to post about.

Check out other Christmas dioramas HERE.

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12 Comments

  1. Super cute! For anyone looking for an old-timey Christmas vignette similar to ones they grew up with, you certainly filled the bill.

  2. Adorable! I love everything small! And once again, I’m so envious of your photoshop/graphic design skills! Tutorial material? Or maybe just let us know where/how you learned? I’m green…

  3. Cute cute!! I’m making some little dioramas out of vintage Christmas ornament boxes right now :o)

    Tania

  4. Very cute….love the simplicity—and old boxes and ‘junque’ lol, always become ‘good things!’ Love this and looking forward to more, Sandi

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