Collectible doll miniature. Making a dollhouse with your own hands Creating small details

How to make shingles for a dollhouse out of leather

Difficulty level: easy

Used tools and materials

1. Leather (you can use old bags and even shoes)
2. Scissors
3. Razor
4. thick threads
5. thick needle
6. Iron with steamer
7. Acrylic paints
8. tassel
9. Cardboard (for making a template)

Tools and materials used Prepare a tile template from cardboard. It should look something like this.

Draw the skin according to the template, cut it out.

Notch the borders of the tiles with a razor. Like this. It is necessary to cut the top layer, but not cut through the skin.

Tighten the threads to give the tile a voluminous semicircular shape. Distribute so that the assembly is even.

Now this form needs to be fixed. To do this, we will use an iron with a steamer.

Important! Do not touch the sole of the iron to the skin. The iron must be kept on a canopy, above the tiles. And fix the skin only with hot steam.

Now the threads can be pulled out. The tile remains only to be painted and glued.

Let's spread acrylic paint desired color. It must be remembered that acrylic darkens when it dries. Paint the tiles.

When creating a house for your favorite doll in miniature, you need to decide on the main material from which the house will be built. Cardboard is lightweight, but not very durable material. A cardboard house can be easily damaged during transportation or simply getting wet. Plywood is a very durable material, but also quite heavy at the same time - this fact should be taken into account. But PVC is a fairly durable and at the same time light in weight material.

For more convenient transportation, the house should be made of two separate parts. Miniature do-it-yourself crafts require some skill and perseverance, and such a toy house can be made without much effort.

Making the base

Basic materials for creating a house:

1. Cardboard.
2. Plywood.

The layout of the finished house can be found to your liking on the Internet. Then it should be transferred to paper base and make a preliminary fitting of the structure. If everything suits, we transfer the details with a pencil to PVC. When cutting, be careful. The house can have completely different sizes, windows and doors. This is already a matter of imagination and taste of the needlewoman. A child can make such a building school age alone or a child with the help of parents. A preschooler with great pleasure will paint the house for his favorite doll.

You can cover the house with acrylic paint. However, as practice shows, when scratching the surface, the paint begins to peel off. For greater durability and beauty, the structure can be paste over with paper. Paper can be anything from corrugated expensive to cheap toilet paper. Trust me, there won't be any difference. The paper must be torn into pieces of arbitrary size and shape and pasted on the facade of the house. It is desirable that the pieces lie in different directions, thereby forming an interesting texture on the walls.

When working, it is worth giving preference to shoe glue or glue gun, since PVA is not so durable and dries for a long time. The ends should be sealed in such a way that a small inversion is formed inside the building. Get ready - the work will take some time, but the result will then exceed any expectations of both an adult and a child. The roof of the house should also be covered with paper. To save time, it must be pasted over with large strips of paper material. Then it will be covered with artificial tiles, they will not be visible to the eye.

Tools and materials

After the entire structure has acquired an invoice, it can be dyed. For this process, prepare:

1. Acrylic paints in different colors.
2. A brush.
3. Glass with water.
4. Paper napkin.

Roof and tiles

No building is imaginable without a tiled roof. . For making tiles you need to prepare an ordinary cardboard. It is necessary to cut out pieces of 1 × 1 cm from it, which will have a rounding on one side. DIY miniature crafts suggest that their creator has time. This work is painstaking and requires perseverance.

Each piece of tile must be painted with paint Brown color or impregnated with stain (do not be surprised - it turns out a fairly realistic base). After all the fragments of the future roof have dried, they can be glued to the base. It is necessary to stick in rows so that each subsequent row slightly overlaps the previous one. Do not glue the tiles evenly, because in real life nothing is perfect. In order to enhance the effect of the realism of the roof, it is necessary to wet it a little with ordinary water and blur the edges of the tiles with a brush. It's not scary if the edges of the roof are a little cracked and soaked.

house painting

The walls of the house for the doll needs to be painted white color, but the roof should be black. These colors are considered the ideal base for drawing and painting, so we will not invent anything new.

In order for the building not to appear too flat due to the all-white walls, they need to be textured with discreet shades. With a thin brush, apply a pink tint to the surface, and then immediately rub it with a cotton pad. In this case, speed is important, since acrylic paints dry almost instantly. The end result, thanks to the pink color, should be protruding areas of the texture on the walls.

You can transform your home not only with the help of Pink colour. After it dries, you can add dotted strokes brown or greenish color. After applying it, the shade should be washed off with water, and the excess should be removed with a napkin or cotton pad. Do not abuse it with water, because it can ruin all the work done previously to transform the doll's home.

Window frames should be made of wooden slats or just sticks that were found on the street, dried, and then thoroughly cleaned. It is not necessary to observe special proportions in this work. The rougher and more primitive it will look wooden frame at home, the better.

Creating small details

A house for a small doll can be made exclusively with windows and a door, or it can be supplemented with a balcony.

small balcony.

In order for the balcony to look realistic enough, it should also be made of wood. The bottom of the balcony and its slats must be fastened together with ordinary wood glue. The bottom of the balcony can be made of a square of plywood or PVC, but ordinary toothpicks can become slats.

You can paint the balcony with the same acrylic paints. And you can go further and open the wooden parts with an ordinary brown stain. It will dry longer, but the balcony will look like a real one.

building door.

After the roof is ready, you can start creating the door of the house. To do this, it is necessary to cut a rectangle out of cardboard, which will correspond in size to the previously prepared door opening. After the doors are cut out, they must be painted with acrylic paints. The color can be any - it all depends on the imagination of the needlewoman. Near the door, you can lay out improvised pebbles or steps made of paper. For this toilet paper roll into lumps different size and painted with prepared paint. For greater strength, stones can be opened with PVA glue before painting.

Shutters and frames.

In order to make shutters, you need to take cardboard or PVC and cut out parts of the right size from it. Each window should have two shutters. Then they are opened for realism with stain or paint. They can also be pasted over with ordinary toothpicks for greater realism.

Dollhouse frames can also be made from a cardboard base. Reiki on the windows should be made from ordinary matches - this way the product will look prettier. The window frame should be glued from the inside of the building, but the shutters are glued to the facade of the house.

House for your favorite doll can be optional decorated with flowers and leaves- it all depends on the preferences of the customer. Near the house, you can put a homemade bench made of cardboard or PVC material. Believe me - at least you will have to tinker with the house, but in the end you will be able to please the baby and his doll with a realistic home!

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But so that it would be easy and fast and even from improvised means. Of course, it turned out not the highest class, but still cute)

Do-it-yourself tile for a dollhouse.

1. I glued the base, rail.

2. I cut a workpiece along the width of the roof

3. According to the template, I cut tiles from cardboard. Row after row glued without sparing PVA glue

4. It turned out not very beautiful, I didn’t like it terribly, and then napkins glued with PVA glue were used. The main thing here is not very liquid glue, cardboard does not like water and “swells” from an excess of liquid. I waited for the first layer of glue to dry (I accelerated it with a hair dryer) and went through the glue again.

5. I filled the empty space on the side with glue for reliability and sealed the holes with napkins.

6. When the roof dried out well, I started painting. I used gray paint.

7. The roof looked like a roof, but I still didn’t really like it, then I took silver sequins (I bought it at a hardware store, a bag of 25 rubles), diluted them with ordinary varnish to liquid porridge and slowly began, as it were, to lay on the roof.

It's a pity the photo does not convey the real shine. sequins in construction stores and markets sell golden and silver, you can buy colored sparkles in creativity stores.

We are convinced that only home-made can be better than a purchased dollhouse. After all, it is very interesting to “build” and decorate it to your liking for both parents and children.

Moreover, everyone can make a house for dolls with their own hands, this will require only a few tools, simple materials and creative inspiration.

Master class 1. How to build a house in half an hour from a cardboard box

Cardboard Dollhouse good because it is done quickly and from improvised materials. It can be very beautifully designed and periodically completed - add new rooms, floors and entire buildings.

Materials and tools:

1. A large cardboard box that will hold one to three floors for dolls 25-30 cm tall (Barbie, Monster High, Bratz, Winx, etc.).
2. Scissors and cutter.
3. Scotch tape in a contrasting color (does not include painting) or masking tape (if you want to paint the house later). In this master class, bright green tape is used, and the house itself is not painted.
4. White paint.
5. Decorating materials (optional): scraps of wallpaper, wrapping paper, paint, brushes, etc.

Step 1. First, cut the box in half and cut off the top flaps from both halves.

Step 2. We put the resulting pieces of cardboard into action: cut out the triangular gable of the roof from one part, and make a small hole in the other - this will be the second floor with access to the stairs. Next, glue the parts into place with tape and / or glue.

Step 3. From the unnecessary part of the box, cut out the slopes for the roof and another floor for the attic, and then glue the parts onto the adhesive tape. Don't forget to attic floor cut a hole for the stairs.

Step 4. Now we cut out the windows with a clerical knife and front door on the first floor, having previously drawn the markup. Then we cut out stairs from the remnants of cardboard and glue them to the floors.

Step 5. Hooray! The frame of the house is ready, now you can proceed to the "finishing". In this master class, all the details from the tiles on the roof to the steps of the stairs were drawn with a white marker.

As soon as the "repair" in the house is over, you can start creating furniture.

You can come up with your own house design - paint the house and the roof from the outside, draw window frames, paste over the walls with “wallpaper” made of fabric or scrapbooking paper, and finish the floor with linoleum or laminate. In the next selection of photos, you can get ideas for decorating a doll house miniature and cardboard furniture.

And here is an example cardboard house for dolls, upholstered in fabric, or rather, scraps of old dresses and pillowcases.

House upholstered in fabric

And finally, we offer you to watch a video review of a dollhouse for Monster High dolls, made by hand from several large boxes.

Master class 2. How to make a doll house from a bookshelf or rack

Do you want to make a stronger house without fiddling with blueprints and a jigsaw? Then use a small shelving unit or, say, an old bookcase as a base. With the help of the simplest steps, you can turn an ordinary piece of furniture into a wonderful house for dolls.

Best for "construction" is a cabinet with a depth (25-30 cm), which has a back wall. So, for example, in this master class, Ikea's Billy shelving unit is 30 cm deep and 106 cm high (pictured right). In such a house, you can equip three floors, quite suitable for 25-centimeter Barbies or Monster High. The price of Billy's rack is 2000 rubles.

Materials and tools for reworking the frame:

1. Cabinet, chest of drawers or shelving;
2. Plywood, MDF or boards 25mm thick, 30cm wide and at least 120cm long (these are measurements for Billy's closet, but you can take shorter or longer/wider boards depending on your closet dimensions);
3. hardboard sheet, wall panel PVC or MDF (for the manufacture / replacement of the back wall and the manufacture of partitions in rooms);
4. Bar 5x5x20cm (a pipe will be made from it);
5. Several small photo frames that will become trim for windows;
6. Decorative molding of small width (polyurethane can be used);
7. Screws and screwdriver;
8. Carpentry glue or liquid nails;
9. Drill and drill.

Decoration materials:

1. Wood putty (optional, but desirable for masking fasteners and joints);
2. Primer (optional, but desirable for better paint durability);
3. Acrylic paints of desired colors;
4. masking tape;
5. Brushes and / or spray gun;
6. Scissors;
7. Materials for lining the walls of rooms (paper for scrapbooking is best);
8. Popsicle sticks to create a lattice fence;
9. Roof tiles material.

Step 1. Painting the rack

This step is optional if you are satisfied with the color of the selected shelving or cabinet. For example, white or plain colored furniture and without painting it will look great.

• If the cabinet is old or has a too “furniture” look, then it definitely needs to be repainted. To do this, we act according to the following scheme: sanding and sanding - primer (until dry) - a layer of paint (until dry) - a second layer of paint (until dry) - a layer of matte varnish.

In this master class, the dollhouse will not only be painted, but also decorated with brickwork. If you like this decor idea, then prepare the following accessories:

• Cellulose sponge;
• Gray paint;
• Acrylic paint (our instructions use a mixture of two paints - the colors of red brick and chocolate).

So, first we paint the entire rack with gray paint. Once last layer the paint is dry, let's start creating brickwork. To do this, we cut out a rectangle about 3.5 × 8 cm in size from a sponge, which will become a template for painting.

Pour the paint into the container, soak the sponge in it and, starting from the bottom of the cabinet, print the bricks - first one row, then the second row in a checkerboard pattern. Do not forget to maintain indents between bricks of about 5 mm. Paint about 1/3 of the house this way.

Step 2. Making windows

This step is also optional, but if you want to create a realistic miniature of the house, then it's better not to skip it. In order to cut windows, you first need to measure the window "frames" (if any) and draw markings on the cabinet walls from the outside.

Once the markings of all windows are ready, you can start cutting. To do this, use a drill to make holes in the corners of the markup inside the border to create a starting point for the jigsaw blade. To make window edges look neater from the inside, inside cabinet along the marking contour, you need to glue the masking tape. In the photo below you can see the process of work.

To give the windows a more finished look, putty and paint the "window niches", remove the tape, and glue the frames on the outside of the house.

Step 3. Mounting and decorating the roof

In order to make a roof, you need to cut 2 boards 30 cm wide from plywood (or other lumber), but different lengths- 61 cm and 59 cm.

Now we join the end of the shorter board at a right angle with the edge of the 61-cm board and again drill holes, but only at the end of the short board, passing the drill through the three holes of the edge made earlier long board. This stage is clearly shown in the next photo.

Glue two boards together, then fix with screws. If desired, the joint can be sealed with putty.

Next, we move on to finishing the roof. It can either be painted in 2 layers, or pasted over with “tiles” from improvised materials, for example, from cardboard or cork sheets. And finally, on the ends on the front side of the roof, we glue 2 parts of the molding.

Step 4. Creating and installing a pipe, installing a roof

It's time to turn wooden block size 5x5x20 cm into the chimney. To do this, simply saw off one of its corners (45 degrees) and paint according to the principle described in Step # 1. When the paint is dry, we fix the chimney to the roof with screws.

Well, that's all, the roof is ready, it remains only to fasten it to the cabinet in inside corners as shown in the photo.