As I continue to indulge my obsession for houses, here is a set of four wee houses with lots of personality. Made from the
Simple House Ornaments,
these sturdy little things are one of my favorite items on the Gypsy
Soul Laser Cuts site. They are made from HEAVY chipboard and you can do
just about anything with them.
Like this, for example:
They
come in sets of two, so you will need two sets for a little street like
this one, or make as many as you like and give them as individual
gifts.
You can let your imagination go wild and make each one different or stick to a theme or color.
The sky is the limit......
I began here.
I cut my chosen papers, glued them on to the houses, front and back and then inked the edges with Brilliance Rocket Red Gold.
I shingled the house roof below with
Pointed Shingles Half Scale. There is a quick tutorial on how I do shingles
HERE.
I painted a few of the windows from the
House Ornament Window Trims black.
After
playing around with where I wanted windows on a couple of the houses, I
decided it would be fun to have some images of the outdoors inside of
the house. These tiny images below are from one little scrap of collage
sheet I found in my box of scraps I keep all the tiny paper bits I don't
discard.
I cut the image in thirds and glued them to the back of
each little tiny window. I glued the windows on a piece of black-painted
scrap chipboard edged in Rocket Red Gold and attached the whole thing
to the house.
After it dried, I trimmed it all around with black zig-zag Dresden trim. (you can get it
HERE)
I
also found the eye in my scrap box and zipped it up color-wise with a
little copic marker and glued it the same way as I did the tiny window
images. The Frame around the eye is from the
Miniature Bookplates Shape Set.
I
worked on the key images for each house and had those all glued on
before I added the extras like more Dresden trim, brass findings and
little white dots. The brass bee sits on another scrap of chipboard I
saved from the Bookplates Set.
For
the image below, I used scraps again and literally tore the edges off
of them to create the three layers of hills and a tree to give my
floating lady a soft place to land. I outlined each of the pieces on
their top edges after I glued them on the house.
I used foam tape to attach the tiny, tiny little lady to the house (after careful consideration about her placement.
I
wrapped some black thread around a brass hand finding, careful to leave
some extra length, glued it in place from the back and attached the
hand to the house. after it dried in place, I glued the thread to the my
lady's hand and trimmed off the extra with a small sharp pair of
scissors.
I added lots of dots to everything as the last detail in every piece.
I like to use either white acrylic paint or a Sharpie white poster paint marker for dots.
I also used the white Sharpie to draw the spokes on the bicycle wheels in the picture below.
A cute way to display the houses if you don't want to hang them is with the
ATC Stand.
Thank you for stopping by!
SUPPLIES
Simple House Ornaments
Pointed Shingles Half Scale
House Ornament Window Trims
Miniature Bookplates Shape Set
ATC Stand
Additional Supplies:
Dresden Trim
Sharpie White Poster Paint Marker (don't get the oil paint one....you'll be waiting forever
for it to dry)
Various brass findings
Scrap images saved from collage sheets
Papers used on the houses from: Graphic 45, We R Memory Keepers, Basic Grey and MME.
Silk flower
Dresden Trim, clock and some cool brass findings you can get from
Alpha Stamps.
