In my day job, I work with a lot of specialized archival cardboard, called blueboard. We end up with lots of scraps so I brought some home, along with a scrap of foam board, and made a little house.
I opened up the blueboard to reveal the corrugation to make the "tin" roof.
I had no plan. I just started making. Every day I came home from work and added this, and painted that, and plastered here, and sculpted there.
I used DAP compound to give the house a stucco texture and for the texture of the ground.
I painted everything using Folk Art Paints.
I made a fence out of wood skewers.
I used my Easy Cutter to slice the skewers length wise to make the horizontal slats. Above they are being held up with cardboard while the glue dries.
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| I love this Easy Cutter. Great for making angled cuts on small pieces of wood, plastic, cardboard, etc. |
Then, I had a packaging box at home that had a curved edge, and it felt like it would be a good landscape backdrop for my house.
I channeled Bob Ross for sure.
I painted my fence white.
Then sculpey got involved and I added happy little trees and shrubs, a bird bath, and finally a foundation around the entire piece. I used more wood skewers to poke into the sculpey to hold up the backdrop.
I painted the back of the backdrop to look like a wooden wall. It kind of made me think of an old abandoned billboard in the middle of nowhere.
This has got to be the cutest thing I have ever made. We all know mini anything is forever a winner. Why do we love miniature things so much? I don't know. Does it make us feel like kids again? Maybe?
All I know is I completely lost track of time every time I worked on this. It was so much fun, and I'm not even done! Stay tuned!
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