1/48 greenhouse

Hi all,

I thought I would share with you my latest mini make. It is a 1/48 scale greenhouse I made from a kit by petite properties.

http://www.petitepropertiesltd.com/onlineshop/index.php

I added my own plant racking on the right of the door and made the seed trays from a kit by Jane harrop.

http://www.janeharrop.co.uk/48th_kits.html

It was a really simple kit to make up and lots of fun. I decided to make it look a bit run down, mainly after smudging glue on the windows, so dirtied my initial paint job up a bit.


If any of you have any tips or links for making 1/48 plants or accessories please let me know.

Take care

Natalie x

Blog Confusion :o(

Hi all,

Just a quick update in case you were wondering whats going on with my blog. 

While looking through my old posts I discovered that I had lost a LOT of my photographs. 

I think it coincides with me using the blogpress app to write my posts.  I don't use this anymore and couldn't recover my files as the app support site was a nonsense!!

Anyway I have found SOME of my photographs so have put back what I could and edited/removed the parts I could not.

I'm really sorry to anyone who comes looking for a project as I know I get a lot of pinterest traffic.  I will try my best to redo them and re-post them.

Natalie

Brambly hedge inspiration dresser project

Hi all,

I thought I would share with you my latest project. I saw this great picture online from the Brambly hedge series of books and loved the over sized dresser.

I had a dresser which had lost its doors, sorry but I didn't take a photo of it before I started to take it apart. I must remember to do that in the future.

I used 2mm card stock to build up the height and used a lot of the original shelves as well as building in some more of my own. I painted it in matt ivory emulsion to match my previous shabby display cupboard and used the same pins as door knobs. All of the drawers were made by me and all open.

I found a great online tutorial by Lesley Shepherd for making a mouse which was really easy to follow.

http://miniatures.about.com/od/makeminiatureanimals/ss/Sew-A-Miniature-Felt-Mouse.htm

I hope to add more to the dresser and mouse.

Hope you like them ;0)

Natalie

Jewellery shop display

Hi all,

It struck me that I had not shown you all the jewellery shop display I made for a club project. I think it was because I struggled to take a decent picture of it, but as I have one now here goes.

I made the jewellery busts ,myself, casting them ( you can see how in a previous post) and made all of the jewellery displays myself, just bought the mini bits for the jewellery from http://www.teepeecrafts.co.uk/

Hope you like it.

Natalie x

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