The Archimedes Inn

Happy Saturday, everyone! I tried something new this week, working in 2D instead of my usual 3D. I've had a sweet collage sheet of owls and other forest creatures for a while and thought they would look cute inside a hotel which I made from a GSL Small Haunted House Frame Set available over at Alpha Stamps. The frame comes in two pieces – a haunted house shape with windows cut out that fits on top of a solid house shape. If you're so inclined, this piece also comes in a shadowbox format.I started by gluing a sheet of Graphic 45's Montage from their French Country collection to the overlay.

Once the glue was dry, I used an X-Acto knife to carefully cut around the house as well as inside the windows. I decided to leave the paper over the two small windows at the top so I would have plenty of room to put a hotel sign up top.

I painted a set of GSL Small Haunted House Window Trims in a dark brown and glued them in place.

Each floor of the Archimedes Inn has a different shade of wallpaper. I got this effect by gluing three different colors from Graphic 45's Time To Fluorish to the solid house back.

I glued my owls in place looking out the windows and added a speech balloon for each one. I was imagining it would get pretty noisy in there at night.

Apparently a squirrel also checked in and isn't too happy about all the commotion. 

A hotel sign, some brads and a bit of dresden trim finished it off.

Thanks for stopping by!

GSL Products Used 

Small Haunted House Frame Set

Small Haunted House Window Trims

Other Supplies Used

Tacky glue

Acrylic paint

Graphic 45 French Country

Graphic 45 Time To Fluorish

Printed Images

Brads

Dresden trim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The House has Eyes.......

Ever notice that some houses seem to have an extra something? How often times one can walk into a house and feel the age it has, the personality it has developed over years of inhabitants, events, lives passing through it? Who loved it and who never noticed it was present?
I love imagining what stories a house holds, what shaped it over the years.
I made this House Room Box with 4 Cubbies with that thought in mind.

Back view....

I started with the House Room Box with 4 Cubbies.

 I cut the intereior paper for the back, remembering to cut out the slots!

I painted the the rest of the interior black and glued the pieces in, starting with the inside, center 'shelves' and then the exterior walls.

 After everything dried, I papered the outside of the box and began to glue the shingles on.
I used the Chipboard Shingles-Pointed and worked my way from the bottom to the top.
It took 12 pieces to cover one side - 6 bits with four points and six with five points. I cut them using a sharp pair of scissors. Centering the fist piece with four points and using that as a measurement for trimming the long (five points) after the glue dries.

One side completed and ready to trim.

To trim the shingles, I flipped the house upside down and using a sharp pair of scissors I cut along the edge of the short row of shingles (the four point). It gives you a bit of eaves.
I have tried using a sharp craft knife, but scissors seemed to work best for me.

I painted the roof black and added some Dresden Trim detail.....

I added more Dresden trim on the back and these great silhouettes from the Black Creepy Critters Set (coming soon)

I also painted a wooden candles stick holder black and glued it on the bottom of the house and added more trims for extra details, melted some white birthday candles and glued them on brass findings and stuck them in the house.
after that, it was me just adding lots of little things I have made or collected.
I used Graphic 45 scrapbook papers from the 'Olde Curiosity Shoppe' collection, including the great pair of eyes with the spectacles.

Little stamped brass flowers were added to the places were I didn't want raw trim edges showing. A book I made with a polymer clay cover was placed in the lower right cubby along with some fun bits and pieces including a polymer clay pumpkin. Fun!

SUPPLIES:
House Room Box with 4 Cubbies
Chipboard Shingles-Pointed
Black Creepy Critters Set (coming soon)

Additional supplies
Candlestick Holder (you can get HERE)
Dresden Trim (HERE)
Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe Scrapbook Paper
Various brass findings and wee objects
Birthday Candles
Black acrylic paint
polymer clay

Thank you for stopping by!

Spooky little Haunted House

Happy Sunday and thank you so much for stopping by on this beautiful fall day.  Today i have a fun project to share with all of you that is made with the Display Tray house with a little bit of a Halloween twist to it.

I started to get out my fall and halloween decorations this week and thought how fun it would be to make up a cute haunted house to put up in my entryway with a few of the other fun GSLC projects that i have made.  I had lots of fun little chippies to use to decorate it too and it really went together pretty quick.  Keep reading for quick directions on how i created it.

1. So to begin my project i cut out all the pieces that i thought i might use and layed them on my project and took a picture.  This way after i paint and all of that i know where to put them back just in case.

2. Then take the back of the house and trace it on the front of the paper and cut it out.  Glue it to the front and let dry.  Then sand around the edges.  Set it aside.

3. Take pieces of the pretty halloween papers and trace through the windows with a pencil.  Cut around the pencil lines about 1/4 inch more so that you can glue it behind the windows when you are done painting.  Set all of them aside.

4. Paint the whole front and sides with black paint and let it dry.

5.  Take out lots of pretty colors in chalk paint and ink that match your paper and ink your little halloween chippies and let them dry.  This goes really fast with chalk ink and you can shadow them if you want more depth on them.

6. Glue those pieces of printed paper to the back of your dry window tray.  Let it dry.  Then glue it down to the front of the back purple piece that you did in the beginning.  Take your little chippies and glue them down to the front of the house like you see below.  Add stickers and glitter on the chippies to make them sparkle.  Add a twine bow in the tree to finish it.

7. Try using other things in your stash to see what kind of fun effect you can get on your project.  I used stickles for the glitter and it came out really neat and a little bit more random verses thick pasty glitter.  The distress stickles came out even better on the pumpkins.  

All these little cuties came in the set called "Spooky Shape Set" and i have lots more to make up a few cards to send out to friends.  

Aren't these 2 pumpkins so adorable?

And that is all there is to make it.  You could even tuck in cute pictures int the squares from your trick or treating with the kids.  How fun would that be to keep up for the coming years ahead!!  

Here is a supply list just in case:

GSLC Display Tray House

GSLC Spooky Shape Set

GSLC Tree 1

GSLC Creepy Corners

GSLC Haunted House Oval

Papers by Doodlebug/ stickers

Paint: Americana Multi Surface Satin

Stickles in lime, orange and purple

Chalk inks

Adhesive

twine

Thanks so much for stopping by.....Teresa