Painting frame on the miniature bookshelf
Over the past month I’ve shared a bunch of photos of the little miniature furniture and things I made for my friend for Christmas 2020. This is the last post from that series, and it’s going to be a short one!
As I mentioned when I posted about the bookshelf, I designed it, but think that there’s a chance I didn’t cut out all the pieces I needed (or left some behind by accident…) so it wasn’t quite what I had originally designed once I put it all together.
This meant that there was a VERY large space at the top of the bookshelf. I didn’t HATE it… but I also wasn’t 100% sure how my friend would use that much space.
So…. with a few days before Xmas… I decided to add another element to the collection of little things I’d be giving her – a large picture frame to place in this large space.
The frame is constructed of card, with spacers made of leftover mat board at the bottom and sides, backed with more cardstock lined with printed scrapbook paper. Then the whole thing was covered with tissue paper – to separate the joins between the papers. I should have added the plastic sheet to the frame before adding the spacers and back – but… didn’t. LOL
Mini frame work in progress with the tissue covered in dimensional magic
After the tissue, I covered in Dimensional Magic, in a sort of ‘dotted’ pattern which isn’t supposed to look like anything in particular – just texture. Then the whole thing was painted with black acrylic, and then once that dried, I used silver rub n buff over the surface. (I used this on the “treasure chest” I upcycled a little while ago too.)
Then into the top is a sheet of clear plastic – and for the “painting” I cut up a blank note card as a temporary option – I don’t know what kind of setting she’ll put the painting into – and while I could have cut something out of a travel magazine… I opted for this instead.
The scrapbook paper is also the same as the back of the shelf… so the “painting” could be take out too and it would look really neat!
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Miniature bookshelf for my friend’s 2020 Christmas gift
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