Art shop miniatures

Dear Readers,

Hope you´re all doing well.

This year I have the intention to be back blogging regularly. I´ll keep my fingers crossed! We never knows what life will brings us... I hope it brings me more "me time" to do my favourite things. Spending time with my Sylvanians is one of them. I´d love to share pictures and stories with all of you again.

In today´s post I´m going to give you a closer look at some of the miniatures I made for the Caramel´s Art and Crafts Store and the story of the opening day.

As a picture is worth a thousand words,there won´t be much explanation about how I made these crafts. You´ll see they are quite simple and easy to make.

Let´s start with the chalkboard sign.

It´s actually a blackboard peg . I stuck a piece of rainbow scratch paper and did the writing with a toothpick. 

For one of the easels I used clothes pegs.

The brown easel is a souvenir my sister brought me from Paris.

I made another one taking this as a model using thin craft  sticks.

I made three palettes using cardboard, balsa wood and thin foamboard.

For the oil paints I used these kind of eye shadow applicators.

The first ones I made were quite simple and smaller. I used this type of toothpick and kitchen foil.I painted the top with a black marker.

I also made two kinds of paintbrushes.I used toothpicks for both of them. The ones I painted are quicker to make and you can use different colours for the top.

The container where these paintbrushes are was made with an eye solution pod. 

The pencils and coloured pencils were also made with toothpicks and markers.

For the oil pastels I used foam in different colours.

The small pots of paint were made with hama beads and a piece of white foam for the top. The box of Crayola kids´ paint is a printable I found on the internet. 

I share the link : Crayola Washable Kids' Paint 10-Count-02.jpg (1799×1209) (easydiyminiatures.com)

 

I followed a tutorial to make these acrylic paint bottles.

You can watch the video here: (347) DIY Realistic Miniature Acrylic Paint & Paintbrushes - YouTube

You can print the coloured stripes to make the bottles here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-In...

The watercolors box is also a free printable you can find here:

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For the book covers I looked for pictures on the internet and printed them out.

You can download the Art school book cover in the activity page of the SSK website: Sylvanianstorekeepers.com

For the roll up pencil cases I used bias binding tape and thin lace ribbon.Once the binding tape is cut I put glue on all the borders.I also used glue to stick the lace ribbon that holds the colored pencils but after a few months the blue one is not glued on properly any more.Some stitches would be more effective but also more visible.

The ruler was made out of pink foam and the pair of scissors is a sticker.

I painted the pastel colored pencils with acrylic paint. I used markers to colour the other ones.

I hope you find the pictures and the links useful in case you want to make some of these miniatures at some stage. If you have any questions I´ll be glad to help you.

See you soon!

A big hug!