Pretty 1:12 Scale Bed

Ooh, I love working in the classic doll house scale of 1:12! For those who aren't familiar with 1:12 scale, the explanation is that every foot of measurement equals an inch. So if your sofa in real life is eight feet long, it will be eight inches long in a dolls house.
Here is the latest edition to my ongoing dolls house project. A pretty little bed, fit for well, just about anyone who likes pretty little beds!

And a picture without the mattress...

I started out with the Standard Bed 1 to 12 .

I glued the Filigree to the head and foot board of the bed, being mindful that the filigree goes on the inside of the head board and the outside of the foot board. I also glued some legs on to give the bed a bit more height. (just used some scrap chipboard to do this)

I gave everything a good coat of white paint and dry fit it together.

After making sure everything fit together well, I took it apart and painted the filigree green using a bit of paper towel to lightly dab the paint on. A sponge would work well, too.

 After the green paint dried, I glued the bed together and used a rubber band to hold it firmly in place whilst it dried.

I also glued the bed skirt ( a bit of lace from my stash) onto the inside of the bed railing.

After everything dried, I added the detail to the head board and foot board by piping Liquid Pearls on the filigree and let the scrolly design influence where I applied the paint.
Dimensional fabric paint also works well here.

I extended the detail on to the smooth parts of the head boards as well and also the side slats. I think it looks more finished this way.

This bed also comes in half scale, which is half inch to the foot. This was so much fun, I may make the smaller one as well! Thank you for stopping by!

 A little secret about the mattress: I have a confession to make. I hate to sew and I have no patience for it. The wee mattress I made for the bed is just a piece of foam with a rolled up scrap glued on for a pillow and some fabric glued to the underside.


SUPPLIES
Standard Bed 1 to 12
Chevron Scroll (coming soon)

Additional:
White paint
Green paint
Liquid Pearls
Scrap lace

Cozy Fairy Beds

When I was a little girl, my Christmas stocking was always placed at the bottom of my bed. I'd wake up super duper early on Christmas morning and find a sock full of treats waiting for me. I'm sure this pleased my mother, as it gave her some extra sleep while I pillaged the stocking goodies.

I am CERTAIN that fairies celebrate Christmas too. (In fact, fairies love celebrating so much, I'm sure that they partake in every possible holiday!) I wanted to give my fairies the same Christmas experience I had as a girl. So, I've made my house fairies some little beds to get tucked into on Christmas eve. I've used a Gypsy Soul Mission Style Bed and a Standard Bed. I've added Leafy Corners to the Standard Bed as decorative accents. 

The linens have been made from an old cotton pillowcase and the bedding is chopped from discarded sweaters. They are quite the cozy little things!

I've also used the Christmas Shape Set to add a stocking to the end of the bed. I've dusted one with glitter and added a fuzzy trim... but if you want to get extra fancy, use the cutout as a template and cut 2 shapes out of felt. Glue the edge together and you'll have made a cute little stocking you can put the tiniest of treats inside!

Now my fairies will be tucked safely into drawers and cupboards, no-so-patiently waiting for Santa's arrival. If you want to create your own wee beds, HERE is a video showing just how I put these cuties together.

Happy holidays to you and your fairy folk <3

Supplies

Mission Style Bed 

Standard Bed

Leafy Corners 

Christmas Shape Set

Acrylic paint

Glue
Styrofoam
Cotton fabric
Old sweater
Felt & fuzz (if making stocking)

1980s Punk Scene

Hey guys it's Jess here again with the last bit of my punk room box. I'm going to finish up by showing you a mini tutorial on window-dressing, and then showing you how my room box turned out.

Last time I showed you how I worked with the GSLC 4 Panel Windows to make them 3D with foamcore. Now we're going to dress it up a bit more. Below is your 3d-ified 4 Panel windows from last time.

This is Shaper Sheet from Woodland Scenics and is cotton on one side and a thick sort of aluminum foil on the other side. It's very useful for a wide array of crafting projects and today we're using it for a window dressing for GSLC.

Picking your material, cut it in the general shape of three loops. It's not overly important to be exact here (I'm never exact it my cutting and measuring. If I try, I always fail at it). Cut the material larger than your Shaper Sheet, also in the same general shape.

Use hot glue to glue the two pieces together. Just squish em' together. The back side won't show. No need to be clean.

Then I squished each of the three pieces upwards and then in on top of each other, creating that late 80s/90s window dressing look for your window. Easy peasy lemon squeasy. 

The Punk Bedroom

Full view of the bedroom.

Posters, bed, pizza box, radio....

Comics, sock, skateboard and records.

Box of books.

Table with boom box and various cassette tapes piled. A box of comics underneath, a stray sock, some records, an old pizza box.

Stained mattress and open comic book on the bed. Stickers on the headboard. 

GSLC Products

Standard Bed 1:12

Windows 4 Panel

Punk Rock Room Box

Hey guys and gals - Jess here for the first of two installments this month for my Punk Rock Room box. Today I'm going to give you the inside scoop on how I fanagled the GSLC products and then for my next post, I'm going to show you everything finished, in place with all the other bits and pieces, all punkified.

I'm using the Standard bed from GSLC as the main piece for the room box. I put it together using white PVA glue and let it set overnight. I then used burnt umber paint, painting it streaky so that it looks more wood-like, just with one layer.

For the mattress, I use pink insulation foam. I purchased mine from Home Depot, and this is half inch. I cut two pieces, one for the mattress itself and one for the box frame. 

I cut the foam to fit the 1:12 scale bed I chose (in this case the standard bed - I thought it fit the 1980's punk theme more) and then used a nail file to soften and sand down the edges and make it look more "mattress like". I had to sand the top mattress piece down a little further because of the next step:

I purchased the thinnest covered wire from Home Depot they had and hot glued it around the top mattress piece, making sure it would still fit when set down.

I had to be careful here because of the foot board and headboard.

For the box spring I took a pen and pressed a design into it and then painted it with tan paint as a base, followed with blue dry brushing. 

I was originally going to dry brush the mattress, but it worked a lot better to mix a white and a blue paint while they were still wet and paint with them and it gave me this neat effect, and I painted the wire white, giving me the tubing effect on the mattress.

And because it's me, and nothing is ever nice and neat and pretty, I had to add mattress stains, so I took some alcohol ink and just added some random splotches for a gross effect I'm super happy with.

Here's a sneak peak of the bed in it's bedroom for later this month.

I've also used GSLC's 4 Panel Windows and I've discovered that if you use the foamcore from the dollar store (don't pay good money for the stuff from Michaels!)  you can make the windows 3D and you have no idea how excited about this I am! You don't need me to show you a step by step of this, it's just adding a strip to each side and building up from it and then sanding with a nail file if you feel it's needed.

I made two here, but I'm only going to be using one for my project, saving one for later. Check back with me later this month for the final outcome of this project (I'm so excited to show you!)

Materials

Bed Standard 1:12

Windows 4 Panel