MAKE | HOW TO – Make a Holiday Paper Village For Your Mantle

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By rachelhobson
Posted December 14th, 2008
Category Home, Paper Crafts

Claudine Hellmuth shows how to create a holiday paper village for your mantle. It could also be a fun project to work for any time of year, and I love her mix of papers, color and sketches to add details to the village.

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4 Responses to HOW TO – Make a Holiday Paper Village For Your Mantle

Jenne on December 14th, 2008 at 11:02 am said:

MantEL. Mantle is like a cloak or something. Mantel is over the fireplace.
(this has been Spelling Minute, brought to you by Nerds Across America)

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Rachel Hobson on December 14th, 2008 at 11:09 am said:

Hi Jenne!
That’s interesting – I never realized the differentiation there. I looked over on dictionary.com, and it shows that mantel (as in fireplace) can be shown either as mantel or mantle, though it does appear that -el is the preferred spelling.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mantel
Thanks for the heads up! I think I’ll leave it as-is for now, since it reflects the same spelling as the artist’s web site, but I appreciate your Spelling Minute …. can I get in on the Nerds Across America membership?
Cheers!
Rach

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Jenne on December 14th, 2008 at 4:05 pm said:

Anyone can join–all you have to do is bug people with unsolicited corrections. FUN & EASY!

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ang almond on December 15th, 2008 at 2:55 pm said:

Either spelling is acceptable in the UK – the word is old english and the place by the fire where you hung your cloaks [mantels or mantles] – so they could dry out -was called the mantlepiece.
In England, we usually use the longer name- its you folk in the us who have shortened it to mantle/mantel!!
Happy Christmas from a nerdy brit!!

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