Happy Saturday, everyone! Connie here
with a miniature patisserie tucked inside a GSL Hidden Drawer Book Box. I
love bakeries of all sizes and am frequently dreaming up ways to
reimagine miniature ones. Let me take you through how this one came
together.
The interior is basically a shallow
box. I chose a pretty blue ombre paper for the tiny shop's wallpaper
from Authentique's Latest & Greatest collection.
Once assembled using tacky glue, the front edge of the shop was painted
with white acrylic paint.
The walls were covered in the same
ombre paper. I chose a scrap of white woodgrain paper for the floor
and started building the wainscot front of the bakery's counter.
It was very simply made of sections of
coffee stir sticks glued onto a wide craft stick.
This assembly was trimmed to fit,
painted white, and another craft stick was glued on top to fashion a
countertop.
More craft sticks were used for the
upper shelves. I glued sections of dowels for the shelf supports.
Here are the components of the book's
exterior. I covered it with a lovely black and white botanical paper
from s.e.i.
I used a
black and white striped paper for the edges of the book.
I used a French pastry sign image from The
Graphics Fairy for the book's title and painted a few bees from a GSL Honeycomb & Bees set.
The pastries are molded paper clay that
were painted with acrylics and dusted with chalk pastels.
The little pies are also molded paper
clay with a few poly clay fruit slices added.
On the very top shelf I made a few tea
tins from wooden blocks, metal spacer beads and pin heads. There is
a miniature resin honey jar alongside. The artwork on the wall consists of
a few miniature cookie cutters and a 'painting' cut from the same
botanical paper used for the book cover glued inside a plastic frame.
Thanks for stopping by!
GSL Products Used
Other Supplies Used
Tacky glue
Acrylic paint
My Mind's Eye Meadowlark
Authentique Latest & Greatest
s.e.i. botanical print paper
Paper clay
Chalk pastels
Craft sticks
Coffee stir sticks
Polymer clay fruit slices
Wooden blocks
Pin heads
Metal spacer beads
Plastic frame
Miniature cookie cutters and honey jar
