Frame with angel

A simple tutorial for dollhouses in 1 inch scale. Happy Holydays :)

Frame with angel for Dollhouses

You will need

• Flat wooden sticks 4 mm wide, two 5 cm long and two 4 cm long
• white air-drying clay
• white acrylic paint
• mosquito net
• grey ink
• a little sponge
• item you like (I've used an angel)
• two part silicone mold putty
• paint brush
• white glue
• cyanoacrylate glue
  
  

  

  The steps of the tutorial

  
  

1. Cut the ends of the wooden sticks at 45° and a rectangle of 3,8 x 4,8 cm (= 1.5 x 1.9 in) from the mosquito net.
2. Push the item you would duplicate in the silicone gum. When you have the mould, put a little amount of air-drying clay inside it and wait until th eitem is completely dry.
3. Glue the wooden sticks with the white glue to have a rectangular frame and then paint it whit the white acrylic paint .
4. When the paint is dry, take a little amount of grey ink with the sponge and rub the frame. Let dry.
5. Glue the net on the back of the frame with the cyanoacrylate glue.
6. Glue the replica in the centre of the net with the white glue.

Another kind of decoration for the frame

Have fun! :)

Only for personal use, commercial use is not allowed.

Etsy School Pinterest

2014 is the Etsy School year, a series of monthly educational modules to help sellers to use some tools at their best to improve their shops.

 

Earrings by A Dream Of Leaves, the cover of the EIT board

September was about Pinterest, a social network that gathers images, videos and animated gifs organized in boards with a theme.

The EtsyItalia team has taken part with a group of sellers, the result appears in this board Etsy School EIT members in which we shared our creations.

 

Pin by La Mandragola, the maker of the EIT board

We have worked both in pair, this is my "deskmate"'s board :) Nitrobijoux, and in group. We have shared info, doubts, tips.

 

Bases for pendants by Nitrobijoux

Before September Pinterest was a mistery to me, I didn't understood how to pin, how to create boards and how take advantage from this beautiful social network, exept for inspiration. Now I can use it quite well, this is my page Mairitales, how about it? :)

Unexpected tea leaves

The end of Summer is near, it is time to prepare miniatures and tutorials for Falltime and Halloween but my head is still full of light and delicate colors.

Some weeks ago I've found in a shop a beautiful branch of faux tea leaves, very realistic, so I've decided to use them for miniatures. These are the first ones, a plant with a natural cotton vase and a white crate with two plants inside.

Plants with crate, in my Etsy shop

Single plant, in my Etsy shop

I think they will be great in a dollhouse in modern or cottage chic style, combined with furniture in natural colors. In these pictures you can see the plants combined with two bee subject pillows, one of them with a beehive texture and the other one with a lovely vintage bee printed on white cotton.

Faux plants with bee pillows in 1 inch scale

 

Do you have inspirations about a fresh use for these wonderful faux leaves? You may see your ideas come true ;)

Poppy for a ring

Here you are the little surprise, a tutorial to make a summertime ring with a lovely poppy :)

You will need

• Recycled red plastic
• 3 jingle bells
• base ring
• nylon transparent thread
• cyanoacrylate adhesive
• long nose plier
• metal pointed tool
• scissors
• tea light or lighter

1. I've used a plastic bottle of a poppy shower gel. You can use also a plastic water bottle.
   
   
2. Cut a circle of about 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter from the plastic, hold the circle with the pliers and move the flame of a tea light or a lighter under the perimeter of the plastic circle.
   
   
3. Heat the metal pointed tool on the flame and make a hole in the centre of the plastic circle.
   
   
4. Now you have a plastic corolla, three jingle bells and the ring base.
5. Thread the three jingle bells with the nylon transparent thread. Thread the two ends of the nylon through the hole of the corolla.
   
   
6. Put a little amount of cyanoacrylate adhesive between the ring base and the corolla. Tie tightly the ends of the nylon thread to the ring base. Let dry.

Only for personal use, commercial use is not allowed.

Poppies

Poppies wreath in miniature

On woven head wreath or in Thanatos' (Death), Nyx's (Night) and Morpheus (Dream) hands, poppies are symbol of oblivion. The red poppy, with its silk petals, has moderate calming properties, Papaver somniferum, with its large mauve petals, has sleeping and narcotic properties.

Meadow with poppies in miniature

In Commonwealth countries red poppies are symbol to remember soldier who have died during the World Wars. Red poppies are distributed during Remembrance Day on November the 11th, the day when in 1918 World War I ended.

Its soft and red petals are irresistible. I've tried to reproduce them in miniature, with tissue paper, on wreaths, frames and little corner of meadow.

Frame with poppies in miniature

Poppies inspired to me a tutorial, do you want to know about it? Stay tuned :)

Angel of Grief

 

Angel of Grief

A beautiful angel lays on a tomb, grieved deeply for a loss. This statue is very famous. The original is in the Acatholic Cemetery inRome, where I took the photo.

There are copies of this statue in the USA, some music bands ahve the picture of this statue on the cover of their albums, as Nightwish'sOnce.

 

Angel of Grief

To stand in front of the authentic Angel of Grief is a great experience. Among the tombs, in Spring and Summertime, there are a lot of Hydrangeas, so beautiful.

Hydrangea

The tomb and the silence of the old Cemetery reminded me the Latin motto "Sic transit gloria mundi". It is for "Thus passes the glory of the world", a motto to remember mortality and the passing nature of earthly glories.

Angel of Grief magnet

Colouring polymer clay

Yesterday I've seen a wonderful video about the creation of an apple in polymer clay, so I've done some experiments with different kind of powders on rough polymer clay.

I've used powder from low cost and high cost chalks, expired eye shadows and pearl ex.

Colours are red and green, polymer clay is white for the first four couples and black for the last one.

The main tool is... my finger :) for a cleaner work you can use a soft brush or a little sponge.

Tools

Here I've used low cost chalks, the powder is not so soft and the colour on the clay is very light.

Low cost chalks

These are high cost chalks, for artists, the powder is fine and on the clay the colour is rich and velvety. I think these are very natural and great for miniature food.

Chalks for artists

Brioches in miniature

These are eye shadows, the effect is light but a little shining. I think they are great to have a watercolour effect.

Eye shadows

Buttons with watercolour effect

Here we have the pearl ex with their metallic and shining effect, mainly on the black clay. The colour often change when applied on the clay.

Pearl ex

Fall leaves

Here the colours after baking. If you have to colour jewerly it is better to protect the item with transparent varnish.

A little strange experiment in the picture below, I've used a spice, maybe turmeric, on white clay :)

Turmeric

Only for personal use, commercial use is not allowed.