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A Summer Cottage + Shabby Chic Chair FREE Gift Kit!
Filed under Art Projects, Collage Sheets, Featured Artwork, Giveaways, Miniatures, Newsletters, Sale, Teri Calia
Note: most of the links on this post no longer work, as we moved to a new Web site in 2018. However, you can see the supply list items from Teri’s project that are still available on the new site.
It’s almost officially summer and Teri Calia has made a lovely little (really little!) Brocante Summer Cottage! And not only is the Collage Sheet Sale that started on Thursday continuing, but there’s a new FREE Gift Kit!
ALL Bathing Beauties, Beach & Mermaids Collage Sheets are 50% off — extended through TUESDAY night (June 21, 2016), to coincide with the final day of the FREE Gift Kit, inspired by Teri’s artwork!
NEW Shabby Chic Chair FREE Gift Kit! These kits are FREE for ALL orders, now through TUESDAY NIGHT, June 21, 2016 (or until the kits are gone)! Papers, fibers, a card (in a sleeve) to make an ATC, some wooden picture frames… and look at that cute die-cut chipboard chair! That’s available exclusively in this kit!! Learn more.
Teri Calia’s A Brocante Summer Cottage is a delightful little project for summer, built in 1/2″ scale (1:24). I am fond of this scale, as a 6″ tall room is so much easier to display on my crowded shelves than a 10″ or 12″ tall room.
“Brocante is the French version of a flea market and an awesome place to find loads of sweet and unique items to furnish a summer cottage. Like most people, I don’t own a summer cottage but I really wanted to decorate one with finds from the brocante, soooo… I created a 1:24 scale cottage using the new Half Scale Room Box with Slanted Roof, a Half Scale Bay Window and a Cottage Base – 9x9x1.”
Oh, that Half Scale Room Box with Slanted Roof! This little half-scale room box is related to the Half Scale Arch Front Room Box, but this one is much deeper, has no apron in front, and has a hidden “attic” (perfect for hiding wiring if you’re adding lighting).
You could sit a couple (or 3) side by side and have a little street of storefronts. Plus that overhang on the roof would be fun to attach some hanging plants or a banner from. 5″ wide, 6″ tall including the facade (and 5″ deep).
“I furnished my cottage with (new and awesome!) Half Scale Princess Love Seat, Table & Chairs Set that I painted with pink and white chalk paint then antiqued it a bit with some brown acrylic paint to give it shabby chic style. The adorable Half Scale Metal Tea Set sitting on the coffee table was painted with Vintaj Metal Patinas. I used Marble from the Painted Barn Set and Onyx from the Retro Highway Set.
“Here’s an easy way to paint tiny things without making a mess: I use long toothpicks, Loctite Mounting Putty (bought in the hardware section of Walmart) and a floral Styrofoam form to hold everything until dry and ready to use in my miniature scene. “
Many more photos and tips are on Teri’s blog post. And see everything Teri used in her decorating in the A Brocante Summer Cottage Supply List.
There are so many beautiful details to choose from in Teri’s project, but I decided to just focus (below) on the view into the cottage from the side window. (And check below ’cause many of these items are also featured in today’s Giveaway!)
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Highlights of Today’s New Goodies – ALL on Sale! View All (lots more to see!) | |||
Hooray for A View into a Summer Cottage Giveaway!
In addition to FOUR items highlighted above (in the “view in the window to see a cake stand” close-up from Teri’s A Brocante Summer Cottage:
– 20mm Antique Gold Filigree
– 6mm Filigree Beads
– 9mm Antiqued Swirl Bead Cap
– Glass Pitcher
… There are 4 more items in the Giveaway:
– New Half Scale Books & Things Collage Sheet
– New Half Scale Princess Love Seat, Table & Chairs Set
– Half Scale Bay Window, AND
– The Half Scale Room Box with Slanted Roof itself!
All of these items are from Teri’s Supply List.
Bonus: One of Shabby Chic Chair FREE Gift Kits.
To enter A View into a Summer Cottage Giveaway drawing all you have to do is leave a comment BELOW on this blog post TODAY or TOMORROW (the deadline is 11:59 pm PST, MONDAY NIGHT, June 20, 2016). And tell me: Do you want half-scale dogs and cats?
Don’t forget to leave your (hello! correct) email address, too, so I can contact the winner; your email address does not need to be made public. Note: I’m offering free shipping, too, but only within the USA. International shipping will still apply.
Please be patient! Spammers try to post crap here a lot so comments are moderated. So if you don’t see your post in the comments section, be patient and check back in a few hours before re-posting it, please!
After midnight, I’ll randomly pick the winner (via Random.org). So check your mailbox on Thursday morning to see who won and for the next Giveaway and Newsletter!
Hey, who won Mermaid’s Treasure Giveaway? That would be Kathlene Ford-Walters! Congratulations!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I think that my heart is going to burst!!! This is beyond amazing!! YES! YES! YES to half scale dogs and cats!!! Winning this would put me over the moon and back! I am actually shivering with sheer delight at the chance to win this one!!! My hear is going BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Fingers crossed and thanks for the chance to win these awesome goodies!!
Of course we need both.. dogs and cats. Would love to see more quarter scale 🙂
Yes, yes, yes to 1/2 scale dogs & cats…and any other critters of that scale!
This is such an adorable layout. I love the size of the house, and the bay room addition. A sleeping dog or cat would so belong in this tiny house.
Love anything French!love the scale pieces this would be ideal next to my conservatory…… here’s wishing for a win
I love both cats and dogs please!
How adorable I would love to win this set and if I do I would love the dogs. Thank you
Yes please! I love animals’ and would love to play with 1/2 scale. Yaay. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Your items just keep getting better and better!!! And YES I really want little tiny kitties!!! All of the Alpha Stamps artists are soo inspiring. Makes me want to get started crafting right this minute. Thank you!!!
Yes! to tiny dogs and cats! If wishes were horses as the nursery rhyme says… wish I would win this. It is beyond wonderful!
Love this cute cottage! Yes to the half scale dogs and cats… I have a cat!
The more pets the merrier!
Half scale weiner dogs!!!
Yes to half scale dogs and cats, especially in sleeping positions. Love this little cottage and would love to create one:)
Yes, yes, yes to doggies and kitties…
Both dogs and cats would be great!
Definitely yes to half scale dogs and cats!!
Yes we need 1/2 scale dogs & cats!! What fun we could have with them! Thanks
OMG this is just so beautiful, it is so beautiful I would do exactly the same.
Yes to both, and any chance of litters of pups and kittens?
Absolutely dogs and cats. Please make it a Great Dane and an exotic short hair with a smooshed in face.
So so cute and creative! Our 15 year old Golden died last November. He was such a sweetie and thought he was a lap dog! Fun!!
Yes to both!!!!! I’d love to have 1/2 scale dogs and cats. And I want that summer cottage.
The Brocante summer house would work perfectly with some furniture that I have. Of course, cats and dogs would be the finishing touch!
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh four footed furry friends add so much to a project and having them in 1/2 scale can make them “mini”.
The world is going to the dogs (and cats) and I say amen to that. Wonderful giveaway.
Oh! Absolutely cats! (ok, and dogs too lol) I LOVE this and would be so excited if I were lucky enough to win! You know tho, your site can cause some really serious damage to our wallets! LOL! I really like all I have ordered so far, and your collage sheets are TOP quality! I have done loads of 1/12th scale minis, even a tiny bedroom in half a walnut shell. I’d really like to try half scale. Thank you for the chance at this!! And btw, LOVE!! the new Princess furniture!!!
Yes cats and dogs please…and bunny rabbits!!! Love the idea of the little cake stand – adorable 🙂 Cottage is lovely, such creative ideas, thank you!
Once again, an amazing giveaway! Thank you for the opportunity to win. Yes on the dogs and cats. I love anything in miniature form. I’m keeping my fingers crossed!
I need a little sitting room so bad.
What a fabulous project and love the giveaway! Yes tiny, tiny cats and dogs!
That would be lovely! My beagle boy and black and white kitty would love to see themselves tiny sized!
Such a cute project and so versatile. Love it! oh and dogs – of course! What’s a home – even a mini one- without a pet – or 2, or 3.. and even better – no shedding!!! 🙂
Yes, I would love to use half scale dog/cat
Definitely, anything you see in real life we need in miniature..and what we can imagine 🙂 I would love to win keep up the great work
Half scale furkids would be great! As a lover of all animals (a vegetarian and animal welfare advocate) any tiny critters would be appreciated. But, as a special lover of cats, purrkids of all kinds would be first on my list!
Absolutely! You can use both in a 1:12 as figurines for decorating or 1:24 to scale. Very versatile!!!!
Ooh I’d love to win this kit! Between cats and dogs, I’d choose dogs. 🙂
I like all scales of miniatures so sure!
Ann
Yes, please, half scale cats and dogs would be great with this wonderful giveaway!
CATS!! >^..^<
Oh, this is so adorable. Yes! Of course we all want half scale cats and dogs.
Oh yes, they would be great. I could make a fancy kennel of the room box!
Yes please, tiny dogs and cats.
All of our miniature settings need friends!!
YES YES YES!!
I would love half scale dogs and cats! They are so hard to find anything cats especially!!!
Sure! Why not half scale dogs & cats? Sit one in a window, at the feet of a chair, etc.!
Half scale dogs and cats?! Sure! They won’t eat very much
Love the half scale And yes to the dogs and cats….how much fun would be!
Yes to half-scale dogs.
I would love half-scale dogs, particularly daschund as my new daughter-in-law has one!.
I would love half scale cats and dogs!
Half scale cats and dogs would be wonderful.
Yes please!
Love this! Have been doing miniatures for years, and so happy to see yours! Cats, please! Thanks.