Last months club project

Hi all,

I wanted to share with you our club night project from last month. We were taught to make this adorable miniature Red Riding opening book.

The book is made from a metal book box you can buy from teepee crafts. We were given the print outs to cover our book boxes with.

If you open up the book inside is a tiny scene with a teeny tiny mouse dressed as red riding hood. The mouse is made from a cocktail stick believe it or not with flock for fur and dressed in paper clothes.

Overall it was a really challenging project with lots of intricate work but I love how it has turned out.

Next month at club it is my turn to teach the project. We will be making a push along toy dog like the one shown below.

Hope you like my mini book. I hope to put on instructions for making the push along dogs. Just need to take a couple more pictures.

Take care

Natalie x

Hi Everyone!!

Hi all,

Its been a long time since my last post.  I can only apologise for that and say I was really busy with work.  I'm on my Summer holidays from work now so finally have some time to post and make minis. 

I have even listed some minis on eBay.  Something I have been meaning to do for forever. Here a just a few of them.  If you are interested search for user cherryv33.   

I hope to share with you some of the minis I have been making for myself and a project or two. 

Off to make some now as it happens.

Take care

Natalie

My latest mini make

Hi all,

I thought I would share with you my latest mini make.  It is a 1/12 scale toy horse on wheels.  

I hope you like it.  

Please let me know if you would like to know how to make it and I will post a tutorial.

Happy mini making

Natalie xx

eBay

Hi all,

Just thought I'd share win you some bits and pieces I have listed on eBay.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/cherryv33/m.html?item=111733104743&hash=item1a03cfe067&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

Hope you like them

Natalie x

Stained glass project tutorial

Hi all,

I thought I would share with you a simple tutorial for making fake stained glass windows for your dolls house projects.  

As you can see they can be made in a variety of designs and can be framed easily. 

You will need: 

Graph paper

Scissors

Craft knife

Glue

Black card

Permanent markers 

laminating punch

Ruler

Masking tape

Pencil

Laminating machine

Step 1: 

Sketch your stained glass designs.  It's helpful to do this onto graph paper so you can be sure your lines are straight.  

Step 2:

Use your craft knife and ruler to cut some 1mm strips from black card.  They may curl up when you cut them but they straighten out easily when stretched.  

Step 3:

Open up your laminating punch and stick it over your chosen design.  You need to have the inside surface of the pouch uppermost as you will be creating your stained glass design inside the pouch. 

Step 4:

Start sticking the black card strips over the lines of your design.  Use your ruler to make sure your card lines are straight. 

Your design will take shape quickly.  It's better to work from right to left and top to bottom.  

Keep going until the lines of your design are completely covered.  

Step 5:

Use permanent marker to colour in sections of your design.  You can add as much or as little colour as you like.  

Step 6:

Close your laminating pouch and put it through your laminating machine.  Make sure it is at the correct temperature or setting for the pouch you are using.  

Finally enjoy your finished fake stained glass....

You can trim your laminating pouch and put it into an existing window frame or make your own frame by sandwiching the edges of the window in wood pieces.  

I hope you enjoy this little project.  Please let me know if you try it out.

Take care

Natalie x

Ebay listing

Hi all,

It seems like ages since my last post but I have been working on a project to share with you all.  Hopefully I will get it completed and photographed this week during half term.


In other news my sister encouraged my to list something to sell on eBay today.  It has been a long time since I listed anything so I only put on one item to see how it goes.  I thought I would share it with you too.

I turned the miniature wand by hand and also made the wand box myself.  The potion jars you can see in the background were also made by me.  

I hope you like them all.

Take care

Natalie x

1/12 basket and thermos

Hi all,

I thought I would share with you a project I ran at my dolls house club this week. We made a 1/12 basket using a project from Jane Harrop.

http://www.collectors-club-of-great-britain.co.uk/Dolls-Houses-and-Miniatures/Features/Miniature-Basket-Making--Make-a-dolls-house-shopping-basket/_ch27_ft1569

I adapted mine to include a lid and wire handles and designed the thermos flask to go with it.

Natalie x

1/48 scale attic

Hi all,

I thought I would share with you my latest mini make. I designed and built this entirely myself. It is a 1/48 scale attic room box.

It is made using balsa wood and card and has been aged using Tim Holtz distress inks.

Hope you like it.

Natalie

Shabby cabinet

Hi all,

It seems like ages since my last post but I have been busy decorating my full size house. I wish I could say it was all done, but at least i've done a couple of rooms.

I also had a major dolls house disaster, I fell off some ladders and managed to pull my toy shop down on top of me as I fell. Though I was bruised and battered with a black eye to boot my toy shop came off worse, almost every tile came off the roof, the attic window came off as did a bay window, it really is in a sorry state. Many of the bits inside were also broken in the fall :0(

One of those bits was a display cabinet, this is what it looked like before the fall.

It had come apart into all it's component pieces but was remarkably not broken. As I looked at it trying to decide what to do inspiration hit. I used my trusty mini drill with sanding bit to sand each piece back to the bare wood as well as good old elbow grease and sandpaper.

Then I painted each piece with ivory emulsion paint. I sanded again and used abranet to give it a smooth finish. I covered the base with a patterned paper and cut a piece of card to fit the back which I also covered with the same paper. Then I put it back together..... that was the hardest part!

I used some jewellery pins I had to replace the gold knobs that came with the cabinet and I also replaced the front Perspex as it had become scratched.

It has a little wobble, but I love it. :0)

I hope you like it too.

Natalie xx

Tea, coffee & sugar canisters

Hi all,

I can't believe I have 99 followers.  Thank you all so much for sticking with my blog and the lovely comments you leave me. I am currently on my easter break from school so looking forward to some miniing and will hopefully upload a DIY project for you to have a go at too.  

My latest mini is a set of tea, coffee and sugar canisters.  They are made from cardboard tubes and open so you can put things inside.  I have covered them in a Cath Kidston style paper for that shabby chic look.  

Hope you like them xx

P.S In case you think you are experiencing deja vu I have resubmitted this post as it mysteriously disappeared :o)