Miniature House Tutorial

Hopefully everyone had a nice three day weekend. I for one did. I got to catch up on a lot of craft projects that have been sitting on the shelf. So I'll share one with you guys today. It's a really cute one. Why do we think miniature things are so damn adorable? Anyway here we go:

Supplies:
Foam Core Sheet
Card Stock (various colors)
Small Scissors
Glue

Optional:
Printer
Scalloped Scissors

So first you want to cut a simple 2D house shape out of your foam core sheet (a square with a triangle on top). Then glue your shape back onto the foam core, and cut out your shape again. You will be doing this around 6 or 7 times until you get your desired house depth. It will look like this:        

Then take your colored card stock and cut out a strip long enough to reach all the way around your mini house and tall enough to reach the peak of the roof. Then wrap it around the house.

Glue down the card stock on the front face of the house. Don't glue the rest of the sides yet or it will be hard to work with. Now take your scissors and trim the lining of the house.

Now you can glue down all the sides.

Now it's time to make the roof. Measure both slants of the roof and add the measurements together and tack on a little extra (maybe 1/4" or so) to include the overhanging part of the roof. Measure front to back (also tacking on a little extra). Once you get your measurements cut out your roof. I'm going to use a pair of scalloped scissors to cut it out.

This is the roof I cut out.

Once your roof is cut out, place it atop the house and press down to form a curved crease.

Cut a small line in the middle of the crease and fold it so one side of the crease is overlapping the other. then glue the roof on. Glue the overhanging pieces down. And glue down the overlapping cut in the crease you just made.

You can glue on the bottom if you like. Just cut out a rectangle as big as needed and glue to the bottom.






Now you can cut out tiny embellishments out of card stock or paper. I made mine on photoshop using the ruler as a very helpful guide and printed them out. But if you don't want to hassle with that then you can just cut shapes out of your colored card stock. I highly recommend using small scissors because it is really hard to cut out such tiny things with big scissors. Glue on your doors, steps, windows, awnings, bushes, etc. And now you have your very own cute little house.

If you really want to get creative you can cut out a chimney. Or you can sculpt your doorstep and bushes out of polymer clay. Just sculpt bake and glue on. 

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Tulle Bow and Tissue Paper Flower Tutorial

First and foremost: Happy Mother's Day! So lets do a tutorial today. I'm going to show you how to make a flower/ bow out of tulle or tissue paper. This looks great on gifts.

 First cut out four or five circles in your tulle. They don't need to be perfect because you really won't be able to tell.

Then take a circle and fold it into quarters.

Then fold all of your circles like that. Put then all together and twist the bottom. Secure with a ribbon.

Now that the bow is made, adhere it to the present. I tried to tape the tulle bow, but that didn't work at all. So I hot glued it and that did the trick.

You can make a flower out of tissue paper doing the same thing shown above. Make four circles one color and one circle another color. Surround the single color with the remainder circles. You can crumple the edges if you like.

"What am I putting in these presents?" you ask. Well They are my Mother's Day gifts. In this big one is a collage I did of my daughter.
 

This is my favorite Photo I took of Rocky in the Frame. What a playful cutie!

I also made another present for my Mom's Garden. I put it in a box that I paper mached with glitter Modge  Podge (totally in love with that stuff!)





I fabricated a garden maker for her out of an old spoon and some copper.

 

I think it turned out pretty good. I might have to start selling these in my Etsy shop. 

Well have a Happy Mother's Day!

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