A Card For Your Grandchildren (or for yourself)!

 Trust me ... this looks harder than it is.

There are quite a few pieces to this rocking house so let’s step through them one at a time.

This is the back of the card.

It consists of the black snowflake horse with the white oval.  Make sure the head of the horse is pointing to your right.  You can put aside the white oval for the time being and attach it after the card is completely assembled.  Use it to write a personal message or just sign it here.

The brown piece is then attached to the black snowflake piece, again with the horse’s facing to the right.  Be careful selecting the correct brown piece; you want this one at this point.

Attach the brown piece behind the black piece.

Now turn the assembled piece over so that the brown piece is on top and the horse’s head is facing left.  Then take the two presents, the ball, and the Christmas tree and attach them to the brown piece, along with the two poinsettias.  Assemble as shown in this picture:

Now you have the backside of the card finished so let’s start on the front.  Put your complete backside to the side for now (well, not your backside but the horse’s backside.). We’ll deal with this in a bit.

Take the remaining brown piece and attach the white horse to it.  This time, make sure your horse is facing to the left.

Attach the white horse to the brown horse. 

Attach the 2 light brown pieces to the brown horse as shown above.  Then, attach the stamped sentiment as shown below.

Next, attach the two sections of the saddle:

Attach the tail to the horse.

Attach the red whatcamacallit to the horse.  As an aside, I was thrown off a horse when I was much younger and have never gone near one since so I don’t know what the red piece is called.

Now attach his mane.

Now assemble and attach the green poinsettia near his tale.

Now the front is finished.  Easy peasy, right?

Now you should be left with just a long strip of brown which you need to fold in to itself so you have two long sides, a short side, and a short side with a tab on the end.

Attach the tab to the free long end so you end up with a rectangle.

This is the piece that attaches the front of the horse to the back of the horse.  Put glue on one long end of this insert and attach it to the front of the horse.  Then put glue on the other long side of the insert and attach it to the back of the horse.  This is what it looks like looking down on it.

And you are finished!!! Except don’t forget the white oval on the back of the horse.  Now that wasn’t so hard, was it?  And it really rocks!!