Artful dwellings and metal

Been creating a seasonal artful dwelling. This time cut the larger house twice, but did all the houses first in Ten Second Studio metal. The house were each embossed with different folders. Finally used a sanding block to remove some of the colour. Each house then had an image added to fill in the window. I have tried different ideas for this. Then before adding the hinge I place a card board back on each one. This time to make them stand used paper tape on the back as a hinge. Seems ok. Then started to add embellishments which are a mix of findings from Tim Holtz and bits I had around.

I have also added an image of the tunnel book pages. Spent time yesterday giving the fronts two coats of Gesso , to give a nicer surface and to cover up the original art work as the card all comes off food packaging.