Missing Willow Farm

This project all started with the new Tiny Black Caviar microbeads from Alpha Stamps. I love caviar and they look exactly like delicious sturgeon eggs to me. Once I made that connection, the project fell right into place. Caviar is a special treat that I associate with a special occasion, the perfect date night.

I started with making all the accompaniments in miniature. To make little white scalloped ceramic dishes to hold the traditional condiments I used the new 10mm Silver Fluted Bead Caps and gave them a few coats of white nail polish.

Creme fraiche, egg and red onion are traditionally served alongside caviar. Those were made from polymer clay. The eggs were made by rolling very thin ropes of white and yellow clay. Those got chopped into small pieces after baking. The onion was done similarly with a mixture of translucent and purple clay layered together and sliced thin.

The dish of caviar was simply made by gluing the Tiny Black Caviar microbeads in an Aluminum Bundt Cake Pan. Everything was set on a Round Ornate Metal Tray with a Tiny White Doily.

The caviar service was completed with a few slices of Polymer Clay Lemon Cane and some tiny crackers made with the Mini Silicone – Biscuits & Bread Mold and paper clay.

Looks pretty realistic to me!

What else belongs with a fancy date night? Roses! This is a set of Mini Red Rosebuds wrapped in squares of tissue paper. My first few attempts at wrapping up a nice bouquet were a big failure so I looked at some videos on youtube on how to wrap full size bouquets for inspiration and it ended up being super easy.

Caviar and flowers and of course a box of chocolates, a universal symbol of love. This was maybe the most fun tiny little thing I have made in a very long time.

The candy box is made from a Scallop-Edged Round Candy Box. Here’s how it comes before assembly.

The scalloped circles are both the same size but one of the smooth circles is slightly larger than the other in order to fashion a lid.

I glued the smooth circles onto the scalloped ones.

Once the glue was dried the long strips were secured around the inner circles with a bit of tacky glue. I just held it in place for a bit until the glue set.

To fill the box I started playing around with the new Mini Silicone Chocolate Candies Mold. I did a search for chocolate box images to help determine the shades of polymer clay I wanted to use, imitating dark, milk, white and ruby chocolates Once the mold was filled I baked it for about 10 minutes then unmolded the candies.

I also added a few of the 4mm Mini Chocolate Beads that were wrapped in Metallic Foiled Origami Paper to emulate liqueur filled chocolates.
They were assembled in the box on top of a round of pink tissue paper. I made way too many of these little chocolate treats because I just couldn’t stop myself. Tiny chocolates will absolutely be used in future projects!

The final touch was a circle of decorative paper on top along with a Soft Pink 2cm Rose. A bit of pink ribbon around the lid was the final touch.

To complete the scene I included a candle from the Black 3 Piece Candleholder Set and a Champagne Bottle with 2 Filled Glasses with a label from the Cafe Bottle Labels Half Sheet.

Everything was set in place on a Wrought Iron Patio Table painted white with iron oxide legs.

Thanks so much for your visit today. There are lots of new supplies to play with, I hope you are inspired to make something wonderful! You can find all the supplies I’ve used right HERE.

Here’s a pretty way to present a gift of small treats that doubles as décor after the candy is gone. I started this project with a House Treat Box from Alpha Stamps. They ship flat and are easy to fold, assemble and secure with a bit of tacky glue. Before folding the tabs I lightly scored the dotted score lines with a bone folder. This made bending the tabs super easy.

I selected a combination of pink and red paper from Graphic 45’s Floral Shoppe collection and cut those to size using the flattened Treat Box as a template.

The new Arched Window with Flower Box has a clever design. It ships flat and forms it’s own window box when folded.

The windows were painted white and backed with a baby pink cardstock. I also painted a small clothespin and decorated it with slices of Polymer Clay Cane – Pink Hearts. The treat box has both a tuck in flap at the bottom for opening but can also be opened from the roof to set treats inside. The clothespin is to secure the roof closed if you choose to fill it from the top.

I tucked some of the Variegated Green Vines into the window boxes and made some flowers by coating head pins in glue then dipping them into Pink & White Flowerbed Mix. A super simple and pretty way to make floral clusters.

The floral clusters got tucked into the window boxes along with white Tiny Paper Roses.

Once the box was assembled using tacky glue I secured the windows in place and added a door from the Mini House Doors & Windows set and some pink 3mm fused Pearl Strands along the roofline.

The roof was prettied up with the addition of a selection of flowers, including Tiny Paper Roses – Soft Pink, Soft Pink 2cm Roses and the absolutely gorgeous Variegated Mixed Pink Roses. They were all glued in place with the addition of some leaves from the Green Leaves Collage Sheet.

Tuck in some chocolates and you have a gift anyone would appreciate.

Thanks so much for your visit today! You can find all the wonderful Alpha Stamps supplies I’ve used right HERE.

I adore bees, they are some of nature’s most indispensable creatures. At one time, my husband and I had the privilege of being beekeepers and got to observe their social interactions up close. We fed them through the winter and they provided us with delicious honey in the summer. I sold our honey products at the local farmer’s market every Friday morning. We carried homemade soap, beeswax candles and assorted containers of sourwood honey from our homestead. Our kitchen was the setting for all the sticky messy bee-related activities. Years of daydreaming about having a separate space just for that purpose was the inspiration for this miniature workshop using some amazing supplies from Alpha Stamps.

The setting for the workshop is a 7×9 Corner Room Box with Window. Since there was a lot of furniture I wanted to include in the workshop I knew the large window opening was going to be an issue. No worries, I just papered right over it.

The paper I used for the walls is from Echo Park’s Bee Happy paper pad. I chose a honeycomb pattern for the bottom and a bold stripe for the top. The chair rail is a wooden craft stick painted white. The white hardwood floor paper is from Craft Consortium.

The wall art comes from the new Honey & Bees collage sheet and also the Honey and Beeswax and Birds and Bees collage sheets. The images are all set inside of Mini Frames painted black.

The Tile Top Table was assembled using a bit of tacky glue before painting it brown and adding brads for the door pulls and 11mm glass mosaic tiles to the top in a checkerboard pattern.

Additionally, I included a Workshop Table 1:12 painted dark brown and a new Oval Back Chair-1:12 Scale decorated with images from the Honey & Bees collage sheet.

The final piece of furniture used was an Oak Hutch – 2 Drawers that was decorated with paper from the Happy Bee pad and a few garden themed brads glued to the side.

Those decorative plates on the top shelf are images from the Bees collage sheet I reduced in size and glued to a White Fluted Edge Plate. Once dry, I added a coat of clear nail polish for some shine.

With all of the furniture in place the decorating fun begins. One of the products I made for our farmer’s market was beeswax candles. To make miniature ones, I used the new Mini Succulents Silicone Mold along with beeswax colored polymer clay. They were unmolded before baking and I used a straight pin to poke holes for the wicks to be added after baking. The wicks are made from cotton twine stiffened with craft glue.

The finished candles are displayed in a Tiny Tray with Handles painted white and fitted with a scrap of paper from the Bee Happy collection.

I made another tray with tile images from the Honey & Bees collage sheet. To make them glossy I added a layer of UV resin that was cured on top of the tile images before cutting them out. They were glued on top of ½ Inch Chipboard Tiles. Since the tiles leave just a bit of space inside the tray when set in place I opted to paint a couple of round toothpicks white then cut to size and used them as spacers.

The finished trays.

I made a few jar candles with the beeswax colored polymer clay. I used an Even Tinier Bottle and packed the clay inside with the help of a metal ball tool then added a stiffened twine wick. The jar lids are made from googly eyes that I cut apart.

The finished jars were decorated with bees from the Tiny Bees & Bugs Die-Cuts Mix.

An assortment of honey based soaps were made in miniature with polymer clay and the new Mini Bees Silicone Mold as well as the Mini Succulents Silicone Mold for some rosette shaped ones. They are displayed on a Plastic Serving Tray. Sweet!

A Mini Succulent planter is decorated with a Tiny 3D Resin Honey Bee.

Honey Bee Jar Washi Tape is used to embellish a couple of the 6 or 12 Tiny Glass Bottles. A very simple decorative touch.

The one honey related item that we made but didn’t sell was mead. I had a bunch of miniature Corona beer bottles that I was gifted a few years ago. They are a larger scale than I am used to working with so they’ve sat in my stash for a while, they’re more wine bottle sized than beer. I was pleasantly surprised that I could get the labels off and add my own from the Little Household Goods collage sheet. I also added a round bee label for the bottle’s neck from the Tiny White Bee Stickers sheet.

They fit perfectly inside a Chunky Crate. The label came from the Tiny Labels for Crates, Jars & Cans collage sheet.

Here are the honey jars I used in this project; Mini Clear Resin Honey Jars, Mini Cloudy Resin Honey Jars and Tall Mini Honey Jars.

Jar labels for the smaller jars come from the Tiny Black Bee Stickers sheet. They are packaged inside a Chunky Crate with a label from the Honey & Bees collage sheet.

Along with honey jars we sold honey bears. These were made from Resin Honey Yellow Gummy Bears. 6mm Bronze Double Spacer Beads and round toothpicks painted red.

Just glue the toothpick ends into the spacer beads and on top of the gummy bears. Perfection!

A couple of textbooks were made from Mini Books with Blank Covers and images from both the Honey & Bees and Cabinet of Curiosities collage sheets.

The Workshop Table is a busy place with bottles of mead in the process of being labeled.

A Micro Mini Teddy Bear sits on the shelf along side the honey bears. The candy dish is an Aluminum Bundt Cake Pan holding bits from the Honeycomb Polymer Clay Slice Mix. It sits next to a Red Metal Hexagon Box containing labels.

Jars of honey are also in the process of being labeled.

Here’s the assembled Oak Hutch. A Tiny Teddy Bear with Bow sits next to the tray of honey soaps on the bottom shelf.

A Mini Glass Dome – Bronze – 30mm Tall holds an HO scale beekeeper my husband got me for Christmas a few years back. I’ve been saving it for a special project. The bee skep image sits inside a 1:12 Brass Picture Frame.

The final touch is the addition of rugs printed on velour paper from the Honey & Bees collage sheet.

Thanks so much for your visit today. There are so many new bee themed supplies to play with, I hope you are inspired to make something wonderful! You can find all the amazing Alpha Stamps supplies I’ve used right HERE

When I first saw the Altoids Tin Wheels they loudly screamed CIRCUS WAGON to me! I’ve done a few circusy things in the past, mostly sideshow related and this time I decided to create a scene straight out of the big top tent’s center stage.

To get started on altering an Altoid tin I remove the lid and set it aside for another project. Before decorating I always sand the tin’s surfaces both inside and out. Kristin Batsel has a fabulous tutorial on how to decorate an Altoid tin so if you need a refresher on the basics it can be found right HERE. I used a Paper Studio Great Circus pack for the interior and a muted dark turquoise paper for the exterior.

I decided to orient the tin horizontally and needed a stage inside so used an Altoids Tin Shelf Insert 3 5/8 Inches Wide. Alpha stamps also carries a 2 1/4 Inch Wide version if you are ever inspired to craft something inside a tin that’s oriented vertically.

Mini Baby Elephants are center stage. They need a podium to stand on and I had a few options that all would have fit inside the tin and worked nicely. I decided on some round vintage game tokens I had in my stash and painted them ivory, red and turquoise.

The components of the Altoids Tin Wheels were painted before assembling them with tacky glue.

These elephants are very talented, they balance Mixed Color Acrylic Pearls on their trunk in unison.

As you can see, I also scattered a few additional Acrylic Pearls around the floor of the tent. The front of the stage is covered in Red Suede Paper. The Ringmaster is a Preiser HO scale figure from their Local Fun Faire Visitors/Showmen collection. Don’t you love how he’s been trained to raise his arms when the elephants lift their trunks?!

Atop the tin sits a red star bead glued onto a Round Bronze Filigree Bead Cap topped by one of the Brass Patina Bead Caps.

Final touches to the wagon include a Wide Brass Filigree Header at the base of the stage and some Flat Back Gold Star Studs – Mixed Size Set on the wheels.

I knew I wanted the wagon to be pulled. Since the Tiny Faux Ring Handle lays flush I gave it a bit of depth with the addition of an 8x6mm Patina Barrel Bead with Geometric Pattern glued to the back. This allowed me to hook a chain to the side of the wagon.

I used the Red Suede Paper again to fashion a collar for the larger 2 inch elephant who pulls the wagon.

The clown image on the back of the tin is from the Tiny Circus Collage Sheet. The clown is juggling milefiori glass cabochons.

Thanks so much for your visit today! You can find all the wonderful Alpha Stamps supplies I’ve used right HERE.

After a few dark winter months I’m so happy to be working on a project that just screams springtime! I made an Easter display for Alpha Stamps made from the new Fancy Wooden Coffee Table and Arch Top Facade Bookshelf – Short, filled with pastel treats, cookies and bunnies galore.

The new coffee table looks eerily similar to one we used to own from Ethan Allen. It comes with a lovely maple finish. Since I wanted to lighten things up a bit, I got out a sanding block to roughen the surface and gave it a few coats of light ivory acrylic paint.

The Arch Top Facade Bookshelf – Short is super simple to assemble. I put it together with a bit of tacky glue and painted it the same ivory shade as the table base. I added some cheerful background papers to the interior.

I made quite a few polymer clay cookies for this piece. Miniature cutters were used to make different springtime cookie shapes. The cookie surfaces were roughened using a toothbrush and then baked.

I gave the cookies a toasty fresh-baked appearance using different shades of brown pastel chalks applied to the surface with my finger.

White liquid Sculpey was tinted by scraping in a bit of pastel chalk with a knife blade and giving it a good mix.

For these flowers, I gave the centers a small dot of the liquid clay then baked it just enough for it to set.

That allowed me to add other colors to the petals without the colors running together.

A cookie bouquet was made by gluing flat toothpicks to the backs of a few finished cookies. Those got placed inside a Tiny Wooden Flower Pot painted pink and white along with a couple of the ¾ Inch Multicolored Lollipops . So cute!

To the left of the cookie bouquet on the bottom shelf you’ll find one of the new 1 Inch Oval Faux Wicker Baskets with 2 Handles holding a 3/4 Inch Rabbit watching over some dyed polymer clay eggs. Everything is nestled in Mini Easter Basket Grass.

Behind the basket sit the new Transparent Mini Nail Polish Bottles with the sweet little rabbit labels on the front.

To the right of the cookie bouquet I made a tray of bunny peeps made from Pastel Bunnies Polymer Clay slices sitting on one of the White Plastic Serving Dishes. To the right of the peeps are Tiny Resin Lollipops inside a Tiny Glass Jar with Lid.

I also included a decorated egg made from polymer clay sitting in a White Ceramic Mini Egg Cup.

I can’t resist working with a 1:12 Inch Gingerbread House and since Alpha Stamps carries so many cute polymer clay slices it was so much fun to make an Easter version.

After assembling and painting the house I used the Easter Eggs Polymer Clay Slice Mix for roof shingles. The egg shells from the Yellow Chicks Polymer Clay Slice Mix turned upside down made perfect awnings above the windows. I also used the Bright Flowers and Pastel Bunnies slice mixes.

Tiny treats on the middle shelf are displayed in Even Tinier Bottles. I added a decorative element to a couple of them with Pink and Turquoise Thin Looped Dresden Borders. Inside the first one are Multicolor Striped Candy Sticks. The pink version holds 2mm Matte Pastel Seed Bead Mix and the other holds Tiny Polymer Clay Marshmallow Sprinkles.

To fancy the bottles up I set aside the corks and made fancy lids from ball head straight pins glued inside metal spacer beads. The pin shafts were clipped off after the glue dried.

I formed a dark chocolate egg shape from brown polymer clay and after baking I added a few of the Bright Flowers slices for decoration and displayed it in a Tiny Box with Oval Window Scalloped Overlay. Since the tiny box is delicate I found it helpful to score the fold lines with a bone folder before assembly.

The chocolate egg sits on the top shelf next to Pink Rooster and Hen Figurines (I may have squealed out loud when I saw these), a Tiny Resin Bunny and a Pink Ceramic Teapot. In the rear you’ll find some of those poly clay cookies glued onto a 1 Inch Mini Grapevine Wreath because who doesn’t love a cookie wreath?! I couldn’t resist adding a sweet image from the Easter Parade Collage Sheet set behind an 18x13mm Glass Cab to the top of the hutch.

Atop the hutch sit some Pink Tulips in a Basket, along with a Tiny Resin Bunny Rabbit and a box of sweet treats I made using one of the new Skinny Chunky Crates.

The crate was painted pale pink and decorated with Pink Dresden, 4mm White Ric Rac Trim and a Tiny Resin Pastel Bow. Inside you’ll find a Pink Cupcake with Cherries, a Red Rosebud Cupcake, a Cupcake with Chocolate Frosting & Cherry, some Chocolate Dipped Strawberries, and a polymer clay cookie decorated with one of the Tiny Pink, White & Chocolate Bow Stickers. I made my own version of a Lindt chocolate bunny by gluing gold Metallic Foiled Origami Paper onto a Mini Chocolate Bunny Shape.

Thanks so much for your visit today! You can find all the wonderful Alpha Stamps supplies I’ve used HERE

Here come the holidays! It won’t be long until snowy weather hits and we have our homes decked out for all the winter festivities. I’ve never been to any of the European holiday markets but can visualize a diverse mix of multicolored booths each one selling prettier things than the last to make your holidays bright. In that spirit I have a miniature holiday market project for Alpha Stamps to share with you today, one that features a 1:12 Scale Market Stall and a bunch of snow globes, ornaments and other tiny sparkly bits.

Let me start by saying the market stall is easy to put together using a bit of tacky glue. I always lay out a structure so I know which surfaces will need to be painted and which will be papered. I chose a dark blue acrylic paint for the roof, floor and supports and Craft Consortium Dark Grunge Tone papers for the shelves and exterior walls. To add a little bit of sparkly interest to the very top shelf, I painted a Snowflake Border with silver paint and adhered it to the rear wall.

For the base that the stall sits on I chose a wood tone paper from Craft Consortium. The floor of the stall will be glued onto the base and the side stall supports need be inserted into slots in the market base. Rather than papering the entire base and cutting little holes for the slots I just cut the paper to fit around the holes as in the photo below.

For the front counter assembly, I attached the small counter support painted blue in the photo below. It supports the actual countertop which is papered in a brown textured cardstock.

For the front of the stall I used one of the new Snowy Winter Village 6×6 Paper Set. This set features so many pretty little snowy scenes it was hard to choose.

This is what the stall looks like assembled and before all the goodies are added. The front brace for the roof piece was decorated using an Iridescent Acrylic Snowflake Charm flanked by two of the Acrylic Snowflakes and a couple of Flatback Pearls.

With the stall ready to open for business, I set to making cute little wares and decorating little glass globes in as many ways as I could think of. The first thing I tried was coating the interior of some 12mm Round Glass Globes with metallic acrylic paint to make round pearly ornaments. I thinned the paint with a bit of water to make it flow easily and dripped enough inside the globe to coat the interior and set them aside to dry. The globes are secured to a plastic water bottle cap using double sided tape to keep them upright. Tacky wax is also great to use to secure globes in place while decorating.

To display them I assembled the new 3 Sections Curved Display. The interior was painted brown and the exterior covered with a scrap of woodgrain paper. This piece comes with two dividers that can be glued in place wherever you want them. I elected to use just one of them. The pearly globes went on the right and a few of the 18mm Acrylic Snowflakes on the left all to be sold as ornaments.

I also assembled one of the adorable 1:12 Chipboard Sleighs that I painted the color of gingerbread with white frosting trim. It holds a couple of the 15mm Iridescent Acrylic Snowflake ornaments, too.

Next I moved on to filling tiny clear containers with snowy scenes. Every one I made started the same way, with a base of white cardstock cut to fit the base.

A few of these contain my version of a miniature glitter village, which started with house shapes cut from polymer clay using an x-Acto knife. I made some plain white and others different colors with a thin layer of white clay ‘snow’ on the roofline.

After baking, the colored houses were accented with a Bright Flowers Polymer Clay Slice Mix. To finish them all off they got a thin coating of tacky glue and were tossed into a container of extra fine glitter and left to dry. I also made some white and green polymer clay tree shapes to be included in these little scenes.

All of the ‘snow’ in these little scenes are just a sprinkling of diamond dust glitter. The trick to getting everything in place is to hold the lid upside down with the loose glitter inside and glue your decorated base to the inverted lid. Once the glue dries you turn the piece right side up and the glitter falls onto your scene like freshly fallen snow. For this one I used a small wide mouth jar I had on hand to stabilize the piece while the glue set.

Here’s the finished Clear Cake Stand with Lid that holds a white glitter house village.

Here are two little scenes mid-assembly. The one on the left is a glitter tree surrounded by a couple of Tiny Polymer Clay Candy Canes that sit inside a 15mm Round Glass Globe Dome. On the right is a colorful glitter village in one of the new 3 cm Tall Clear Cake Stand or Domes.

This pretty little village sits inside a Large Glass Candy Jar. This is the one piece that didn’t need to be held upside down while the glue set. I assembled the village onto card stock, dropped it into the candy jar, added diamond dust glitter and popped the lid on.

Here is a polymer clay snowman I made to fit inside a Tall Glass Cloche with Cork Base. The carrot nose was stiffened by baking it for 5 minutes before inserting it into the snowman’s head. The base has a bit of decorative trim and one of the Tiny Silver Snowflake Mix topped with a white snowflake from the Blue Penguin Polymer Clay Slice Mix. I love to use slice mixes in my crafting and find myself coming back to them project after project to use bits and pieces. This particular one also has tiny pearls and adorable penguins along with blue and white snowflakes.

This little scene inside a Mini Glass Dome – Bronze 25mm Tall was assembled using a Tiny German Fairy Tale Tree topped with a 5mm Gold Flat Back Star. At the base I added a snowman from the 8mm Resin Christmas Cookies/Ornaments Mix.

As I was playing around with these little wintery settings I thought it would be fun to put a tiny snowglobe inside a snowglobe. I glued an Iridescent Water Bubble Microbead onto a small silver bead. The stand is a tiny round wood block painted silver and topped with another Tiny Silver Snowflake.

I was happy to get to play with the new Tiny Ornament Frame Sets to make Christmas ornaments for the market. They were colored with pastel metallic acrylic paints and topped with the new 10mm Iridescent Color Snowflakes.

The snowflake ornaments are displayed in a couple of the white plastic bowls from the White Plastic Mini Serving Dish Set.

These colorful and sparkly Christmas ornaments are nestled inside a Mini Ornament Box.

They’re made from 1cm Clear Glass Globes that were embedded with microbeads, colorful glitter, Iridescent Water Bubbles and Iridescent Mylar Flakes set in resin. Here is the set-up I used to keep the mess down while working with the globes. The small plastic cup helps catch any spillage from the fillers. A dollhouse spoon actually helped the process of filling the globes.

These next steps involve working with UV resin. Before getting started, make sure you are familiar with all of the safety precautions recommended when using resin. Here is a good primer.

Once I had enough mix-ins I added UV resin until the globe was full, stirred everything well with a straight pin and cured them under UV light per the resin’s instructions.
I got the idea for making mini liquid filled snow globes from my daughter who makes dice sets for tabletop gaming. She told me about liquid core dice which my miniature-addled brain immediately thought hey, those might make awesome teeny snow globes. I googled liquid core dice tutorials and found there are a lot of instructional postings and videos available. Here is an example.

The basic idea is to mix glycerine and water in a 1:1 ratio, add a bit of rubbing alcohol and use an eyedropper to suspend whatever sparkly mix-ins you want before sealing your globe container with resin and curing under UV.

I found those Iridescent Water Bubble Microbeads and the Iridescent Myler Flakes along with colored glitters make the prettiest snow globes.

There are two ways to seal the globes. The first is to add a drop or two of UV resin inside the globe and cure under UV light for a minute or two. This is followed by applying UV resin all around the top of the globe and curing it again.

The second method is to make a ‘lid’ by dropping a small of resin onto plastic and curing it under UV light as shown below. This hard resin lid gets attached by applying liquid resin around the globe’s opening (I use a toothpick for this), setting the lid on top then curing under UV. I always go back to add another coating of liquid resin or two over the entire lid and cure again to make sure there are no leaks.

The light source I use for curing is a UV Nail Lamp.

Here is a filled 25mm Round Glass Globe that’s been mounted on a Small Antique Gold Crown.

Here it is after a good shake.

And another

Here are some smaller versions. The smaller ones are made from 12mm Round Glass Globes and the larger from 16mm Round Glass Globes.

The two on the left are attached to 10mm Antique Gold Embossed Donut Spacer Beads. The larger gold one is mounted on a Fancy Bronze Large Bead Cap and the blue one sits on a 25mm Round Raw Brass Filigree Setting.

Not interested in dealing with liquids? Just use resin without them. The final project won’t swirl when you shake it but if you just want something sparkly to sit on a shelf it probably doesn’t mater. Add your mix-ins, fill the globe with resin, give it all a good stir with a straight pin and pop it under your UV light.

Here are two versions made using that method. Still pretty, right? The 18mm pink globe on the left sits on a Large 25mm Antique Silver Bead Cap.

The 16mm blue one’s pedestal base was made from sandwiching a Black Flat Disc between two 12mm Fancy Antique Silver Rondelles along with 10mm Antique Silver Twisted Closed Rings. Those were all attached to a Round Silver Filigree Bead Cap or Mini Base. Everything was secured with E6000 glue. I love the height of this little assembly.

Not interested at all in adding resin to your craft supplies? Here are two versions I made just by squeezing some Stickles glitter glue into a globe, using a toothpick to coat the inside and leaving to dry. So sparkly!

The blue one sits on a 10mm Antique Silver Crown or Stand.

The stand for the gold one is made from a Bronze Dot Pattern Fancy Saucer Bead sandwiched between two 10mm Antique Bronze Twisted Closed Rings on top of a Brass Patina Bead.

The simplest option for including some holiday sparkle in your miniature scene is to simply fill a globe with glitter, seal with a dot of glue and attach some holiday images to the outside. I used the Gingerbread Tiny Christmas Stickers here. The smaller globe sits on a 13mm Tall Fancy Crown Bead Cap. The larger is on a stand made from a Fancy Round Bronze Nail Head glued to a Fancy Drum Spacer Bead.

Here are a few close ups of each shelf with everything assembled. There is a Waving Snowman in Top Hat on the top shelf along with a Mini Baby Penguin. The market is open for business!

Sitting alongside my Cookie Houses and Hot Cocoa market stall I’d say my version of a European holiday marketplace is coming along! Now to figure out which one to make next…

A great big thank you to Alpha Stamps for having me as a designer! You can find all of the wonderful supplies I’ve used right HERE

I have a miniature art studio project for Alpha Stamps to share with you today, one that features a new corner room box and some fun newly arrived furniture and decorative pieces.

This little scene uses the 7 x 9 Corner Room Box with Window. Before starting any room box I dry fit it together to determine which side of each wall is interior vs exterior and mark them as such. I was going for a slightly industrial loft look for this studio so started by bricking the interior wall with the window in it. I covered the assembly tabs with painters tape then, working in sections, I used the same tape to hold a Small Brick Wall Stencil in place. The raised bricks were made using modeling paste, which I spread through the stencil openings with a palette knife. The stencil was carefully lifted off and rinsed with water and the wall was set aside for the paste to dry. After a few hours I moved the stencil to a new section to repeat this process.

Once the bricks were completely dry I painted the grout using a light gray acrylic paint.

From there, I chose a combination of acrylic brick colors and just randomly painted and layered color on each brick until I was satisfied with the result. The small brick pattern you see in the background is a sheet of scrapbook paper I used for inspiration.

The Double Layer Window – Plain comes in two pieces. To fit with the industrial look both sections were painted black before gluing in place.

Love how the bricks came out! I wanted the rear wall of the room to have the appearance of shiplap so covered it with a light wood grain paper. The floor got an antique reclaimed wide plank look. Both are Wood Textures papers from Craft Consortium. The little bird painting is one I did for this project, along with the red bird and the lemon. The birch paintings come from a watercolor greeting card I painted years ago that was just cut down to size and framed with a couple frames from the Mini Frames Set.

Rather than stenciling the exterior walls I decided to use a one of the brick texture papers from Craft Consortium. Before assembling the room using tacky glue, I used the window wall as a template to cut the exterior building paper.

The furnishings for the art studio are some new pieces as well. Alpha Stamps carries a series of cubbies that can be stacked into a huge variety of configurations. I chose to use a Single Cubby (set of 2) plus a 4 Cubbies Square Block and a 6 Cubbies Rectangular Block for the display case. They were painted in a dark brown before being stacked and glued to each other. The rear wall and ‘floor’ of each cubby got a muted neutral paper to help show off the contents inside each cube. Since the single cubby comes in a set of two, I decided to reverse one of them and give it a faux drawer front using the new Cubby Faux Fronts Collage Sheet. There were SO many great options to choose from I had a hard time deciding!

The feet for the display case are made from Wooden Pushpin Box Feet – Set of 4 that were painted brown and glued onto antique brass jump rings I had in my stash.

The little open back shelf I painted white reminds me of an Ikea shelving unit. It was made from a 6 Cubbies Rectangular Block – Open Back. The Shallow Work Table is another new piece and I gave it an architect/drawing table look by painting the top white and the legs black.

The pretty oriental looking rug came from the Aubusson Dollhouse Rugs Collage Sheet. I printed it on velour paper to give it a bit of a fuzzy feel. I also added a plain cotton drop cloth stained with a bit of acrylic paint. The stool comes from a Set of Stools – 1 inch scale. The legs were painted a dark blue and the top papered with a Honey Bee Home Essentials paper.

I of course used the Tiny Craft Room Labels Collage Sheet for a few practical accessories for the art studio. I had some miniature turned wooden bottles in my stash that I painted white and added gesso and acrylic paint labels to.

I glued stamp pad labels onto black and white foam sheets then cut them out. They fit perfectly into the tray from the Square Wooden Boxes with Lids in Tray. One of those cute boxes found it’s way into the cubby display case.

The Tiny Craft Room Labels Collage Sheet also has rubber stamp labels. Those got glued onto slices of flat wooden dowel that I stained with a wash of watercolor paint.

The finished rubber stamps were tucked into one of the Small Plastic Tubs – 19x15x5mm. a Taller Plastic Tub – 19x16x10mm was used to store the 4 Piece Mini Ruler & Triangles Set. The smallest Tiny Plastic Tubs – 15x11x5mm was fashioned into a little bunny shrine using with the addition of a Tiny Blue Fairy Window and a Tiny Resin Bunny Rabbit.

The stamps and inks sit on top of the open shelf along with a Mini Black Rotary Phone.

Inside the open shelves sit the mini bunny shrine as well as some pottery I made a few years back and some fun things from my stash.

Now for a closer look at the cubby display. I used a Chunky Glass Bottle with Lid to house some colored pencils. Just below that is one of the Square Wooden Boxes that came with the tray and a Mini Potted Fern. There’s one of the Mini Succulents – Set of 3 just below it. The next level holds a Square White Canister with Lid and a Tiny Round Serving Plate. The cigar box was made from a Mini Cigar Box Set and the Mini Cigar Boxes Half Sheet. Below that are a 1 Inch Wide Mini Vintage Suitcase which I imagine holds art supplies for plein air painting outdoors, as well as a Yellow Baby Duck. The 28mm Brown Fruit Bowl next door is full of Red Apples – 1:12 Scale.

Below the duck is a snow globe I made from a hollow glass globe that holds Iridescent Water Bubble Microbead Mix mounted on one of the bead caps from the Mini Cake Stand Kit. You’ll also see one of the gorgeous Mini Colbalt Blue Vases and some Mini Books with Blank Covers that were covered with images from the Tiny Little Books Collage Sheet. Those are joined by a Small Green Frog. To the right of this display case sits a Two Inch Tall Wicker Basket filled with two Razor Grass Plants.

Sitting on top of the Shallow Work Table are the 4 Piece Mini Ruler & Triangles Set along with Miniature Crayons in Box and the Tiny Set of Pencils sitting inside a Metal Paint Can with Lid.

Those paint brushes sitting inside an Even Tinier Bottle were made from toothpicks, burlap fibers and a teensy bit of tin foil tape.

I painted the bottom of a Tall Wooden Ladder and added a cardinal brad for inspiration. The red bird painting on the Miniature Easel with Blank Canvases is a work in progress. There’s a Miniature Paint Set in Box sitting on the stool and the 15mm Tall Glass Jar on the drop cloth has some tinted resin in it to represent a paint brush rinse cup.

The Miniature Easel comes with two blank wooden boards. Those got tucked into a Wooden Storage Crate with Metal Screen Sides along with another Mini Frame and a scrap of mat board.

A bird’s eye view of the finished room.

A great big thank you to Alpha Stamps for having me again as a guest designer! You can find all of the wonderful products I’ve used right HERE