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House Room Boxes plus Attic Silhouettes
Filed under Bella Ayers, Gifts/Decorations, Giveaways, Kristin Batsel, Rhonda Secrist Thomas, Shannon Cooper
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 lists for both projects on the new site: Bella’s Dreadfully Delightful Manor and Kristin’s Ornaments.
What’s New Today? New House Shrines!
We have new House Room Boxes in FOUR designs! Plus there is cute new art by THREE Design Team Members using them! Plus more ornaments using this month’s kit!
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Let’s start with this fun 1:24 scale room box by Design Team Coordinator Miz Bella (Kim Ayers)! Bella used the larger House Room Box with Cubbies. It’s 12-1/2″ tall by 8-1/2″ wide by 3″ deep (plus it has dividers that create four approx 4-1/4″ wide x 4-1/4″ tall “rooms”). The “rooms” work well for 1/2″ scale (1:24) furniture.
Did I mention it includes siamese Raggedy Ann dolls?! Who bounce on springs on a shabby couch!? “Not having a prissy perfect dollhouse meant of course that it would have to be inhabitable by none other than The Dreadfuls.”
Ha! Yes, The Dreadfuls are back and have quite a few colorful stories in this outing. And Bella includes all kinds of tips, including how to get the lumpy couch (on a tiny 1:24 scale couch).
“The entire project started out when I was sent the House Room Box with 4 Cubbies from Alpha Stamps to play with. I knew that I’d want to make it some sort of a dollhouse, but didn’t want a prissy perfect one. I also wanted a fireplace, but didn’t have one that was 1:24 scale. Which meant that I’d have to try to figure out how to make my own because a. I’m way too cheap and b. I’m trying to create stuff with items I already have here at home.”
Read more (and see more photos and tips) in Bella’s blog post. And here’s her Supply List.
Now we’re moving on to half the size of that house that Bella used! Both Shannon Cooper and Rhonda Secrist Thomas used the new Mini House Room Boxes for Christmasy projects. Both of these mini houses are overall approx. 6-1/2″ tall by 4-1/4″ wide by 1-1/2″ deep. One has dividers for 4 cubbies below the roof, and the other has one large “room” space.
Shannon made this adorable shrine (first photo at left), that’s full of backlit silhouettes. Rhonda also used that shrine with cubbies, and also made the shrine below with gnomes: “I love watching birds out of my window, especially on a snowy day. I nicked some of their seed for my little elf to use for his winged friends.”
Each of them came up with their own version of a technique to allow you to open and close the top “attic” (so you can get to the switch to turn the tea light on or off).
Back to Shannon’s artwork:
“My brain couldn’t get passed “silhouette” so I continued the theme and chopped several of the Ornament Layers away from the frames, painted them black, then glued them in the rooms of the house. The little girl on the stairs is my favorite because she is shadowed behind the lit tree. Creating the tree is as easy as pie, and it took about 5 minutes. After painting my tree black, I cut out a section of thin plastic (mine is toy packaging) and glued it to the back of the tree. I colored the ornaments and tinsel with Sharpies. That’s it.”
Read more (and see more photos — and those tips on getting to the attic light) on both Shannon’s and Rhonda’s blog posts.
I love these ornaments by Kristin Batsel!
Kristin shows all kinds of ideas, from colored pencils to paint. And tips on applying glitter to just the ground, and getting stripes around the edges even. Then, those last 2 ornaments at right are priceless:
“Last but not least, here’s a great way to preserve some Christmas memories. I’ve taken photos of my girls every year since my older daughter was born. Back in the days before digital cameras, I would take 20 some pictures and then wait for the film to be developed. I always ended up with several outtakes that were not “card worthy”.
“Here is my favorite. My younger daughter was almost two, and in every.single.picture she screamed “tee hee!” My older daughter, who was not excited about taking Christmas photos in the first place, could not hide her exasperation.
“Nine years later, the girls agreed to recreate that photo for me for our 2013 Christmas card. That card is one of my all time favorites, and I will love having this ornament on my tree. I am planning on going through all my old cards and making more photo ornaments. Wouldn’t these make great gifts for family?”
Read more (and see more photos) in Kristin’s blog post. And here’s her Supply List.
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Hooray for the Mini House Room Box Giveaway!
For today’s Giveaway, I picked out the tiny, 1/4 scale furniture I showed in the Mini House Room Box – 4 Cubbies, plus an attic silhouette, and the ornament that Shannon cut apart and used in one of the cubbies in her artwork:
– Mini House Room Box – 4 Cubbies (1:48)
– Small Flying Santa Attic Silhouette
– Stairs Christmas Morning Ornament Layers
– 1/4 Scale Kitchen Furniture Set
– 1/4 Scale Bathroom Set
To enter the Mini House Room Box 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, December 5, 2016)! And tell me: How will you decorate your Mini House Room Box?
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 Newsletter & Giveaway!
Hey, who won the Gingerbread Giveaway? That would be Deb Kaste! Congratulations! Check your email for more info.
Gorgeous!~!!
I would create a house for all my guys and dolls with a small Christmas trees and toys with their beds and a rug on the floor with a lamp or light on the ceiling and they would all be made like Christmas and I would hang it on the wall.
Love 1/4″..would be an awesome “night before Christmas” house.
Hullo there!
I make and design paper boxes, but have not done a 2D house with furniture yet! I would love to do a EnglishCottage adding thatch to roof, and lots of flowers, roses on exterior walls, from this store. I’d also like to add a tea set with everything including cakes, etc. and hanging pots..ivy alson exterior. Thank you so very much. Weather I win or not, I recently discovered your store, got some amazing downloads I’m using in Alice in Wonderland shadow boxes and journals. I’m also waiting on an order from the store, with various things. I just love all you offer. Half of these things I cannot find. I also love all the things you teach people to make and do!
Cheering you on!
Kimberly Howard
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This is adorable! I’m dying to make my own Christmas version
I’ll make a little Christmas house!
I love the flying Santa and reindeer. I think I would do a Night before Christmas theme with the rooms.
My little house would have a Christmas theme.
Congratulations Deb! Enjoy your awesome prize!
I love the 1:48 scale 4 cubbie house box! I would decorate it with a fairy/dragon theme! Everyone knows that fairies love their pet dragons and I would make a home fit for a fairy Princess and her pet dragon to live in!
LOVE the silhouettes too and would use the deer silhouette (in my cart right now) in the attic of the house!! Absolutely darling!!! Thanks for the chance to win this prize! It is quite awesome!! macaskillbarbara @ yahoo.com
What a fantastic giveaway! I’d make it into the Dursley House with an upstairs room for Harry Potter.
I adore quarter scale, this is the perfect Christmas kit
I want to do the rooms like rooms in a goth house
I love all the possibilities of this little house and my imagination is working on a potential shop with living quarters above, or a “theme” house using Mary Englebrite designs.
There is always so much to learn and get inspired by in your posts!
I’d make each room represent a season and incorporate a mix of shadow and 3d elements.
I would enjoy making a Christmas themed house and I like Dona’s idea of Mary Englebreit as well, so maybe a Christmas themed Mary Engelbreit 🙂
So sweet! Love this. I would make a winter hideaway!
Cute little house-I am always thinking of halloween. Thought this would make a great haunted house. >^..^<
These are great little boxes. I would make scenes from my childhood Christmases. Now that I’m lining in senior housing I don’t have room for a tree and that would make a great Christmas decoration. I am still a serious crafter even tho I’m in my seventies.
There are so many many possibilities with this one! Haunted house, Mrs. Claus baking in the kitchen while Santa naps by a fire!
Easter factory, raggedy house…..
Love the Christmas house! And the ornaments. I would make a Christmas morning scene!
Oh my, How about a scene from 101 Dalmations
I’d make a Halloween house.
I have to say I LOVE Kim’s Dreadful Manor so probably along those lines.
Houses are probably my favorite things. That’s where my eye always goes, big or small, I want them all. If I should win this wonderful giveaway, it would be a Christmas theme. We just moved and can’t put up a tree. All my beloved holiday things are packed away in unknown boxes. This giveaway would make my Christmas!
Houses are probably my favorite things. That’s where my eye always goes, big or small, I want them all. If I should win this wonderful giveaway, it would be a Christmas theme. We just moved and can’t put up a tree. All my beloved holiday things are packed away in unknown boxes. This giveaway would make my Christmas!
Sorry for the multiple posts, must have gotten excited. Please post one and delete the extra if possible. Thanks and again sorry!
Just discovered this amazing website. Want to do so many of the projects. Would be nice to start small. Like the silhouette houses. May try something like that.
I would decorate this darling little house with mini Christmas trees and little Christmas decorations. I have accumulated quite a stash of little Christmas goodies, and this would be a great opportunity to use them. Happy Holidays!
I would make a house with Nisser (Norwegian Christmas trolls) and animals with grass growing on the roof. I’m so glad I found this site.
OMGosh! These projects just keep getting better each week! I would absolutely make it into a Christmas house. Congrats to Deb!
I’ve always wanted to do a Regency House (*as I look meaningfully at one of your Design Team!*) Bedroom, ballroom, library/study/writing spot and a kitchen. I already have made (a bunch of years ago), a Haberdashers but it’s at a different scale, I think.
Love the attic silhouettes! Especially the santa and raindeer over head!
I would make an old fashion Christmas shop.
I have been collecting small treasures to make both Christmas and Halloween shadowboxes! So I’d make this Mini House Room Box my Christmas theme and my other shadowbox would be the Halloween one! So much for my indecision on what to do, because I’d have 2 boxes! Yay!
would love to make a Christmas house!
What magical projects today! If I had a chance to play with today’s prize I would add to my Christmas village by making an “elf house” for the north pole…so much fun and thanks for the chance to win. 🙂
I would love to do a Christmas house for the Adam’s family! Thanks for this chance!
I would make a little house using some resin furniture I inherited from my daughter. Hope I win!!!!
I have been looking for something like this to make Santa’s house! I will have santa in his chair watching a old fashioned miniature TV, which I have already purchased! We never think about what santa does in his time off! I’m sure the rest of the ideas will come to me in time! Thanks
Maybe a nice Santa and mrs. Claud vignette with Krampus lurking outside
So many wonderful ideas with this one, but I think I might use it to give a home to my ever growing collection of miniature My Little Ponys. Each room could house a separate pony and their family or friends.
I would give you witch,Hazel, a new house all decorated ifor
Christmas , witchie style of course.
Oh definitely a night before Christmas house! Love it!
Yes, I would make a house fit for Dickens’ “Christmas Carol.” No Scrooges here!
Mine will have an outdoorsy feel. I may have animals in the house!
A brothel decorated for the holidays.
Ooooh!!! Haunted house rooms!
I would love to do a victorian dollhouse Christmas
I love that tiny furniture~ I would use that to decorate the house. Add pretty papers for wallpaper.
I think I would turn this into Santa’s house at the North Pole! Sort of gingerbready and magical for my grand daughter!
Would love make the little house into a snowy cottage for Christmas.
I would love to make Victorian Christmas House.
So Cute!! I would definitely make a Christmas House!
I would decorate it for Christmas.
I’d love to a Victorian scene.
Love the houses. Would definitely make them haunted christmas houses with a creepy attic.
I would love to do an shabby chic Christmas house.
I think that I would make a Christmas memory house, with tiny pictures of my daughters in the rooms, and a family photo in the living room.
It would have to be a Halloween house since that is my favorite holiday.
These are such cute samples. I love minatures.
I love this. I have a thing with houses. I would repaint the the quarter inch furniture and use it like the white rabbit’s house in the China cabinet!