I finished putting the tile roof on the dollhouse and I aged it. I had the idea of having a lot of mortar stuffed between the tiles. I think it looks very rustic. I also gave the plaster a couple of coats of the paint. It's a very yellow cream color. It looks like margarine. I am going to age this paint later. I painted the inside plaster the same color.

Let's just say that this post has been in the works so long that I forgot I had a draft sitting around....the half scale projects stole my time away...so now I have the time to write about stones (and

Using tissue paper to create stucco in miniature - the full tutorial. simple technique.

So I'm stuccoing the upstairs. It's incredibly painstaking and time consuming work, because, well, staying in the lines is harder than it looks. Gloppy stucco is ugly stucco. Here, I'm using a variety of angled brushes to fill in the "daub" in my wattle and daub. For stucco, I'm using a combination of Greenleaf's stucco powder, and DecoArt's "antique white" craft paint. You can get different effects, depending on your ratio of paint to powder. Here, I've created a stucco that sets in stiff…

There was some great debate within me on what to do for the exterior of this build. I wanted something more than just paint, but I knew what I had planned for the roof and what I wanted for colors...I settled on stucco finish with Glidden's Gold Coast White as my main color. Nice and neutral! My big hurdle then was what to make the stucco with. I wanted to use something that I already had at the house since I had a really limited budget to work with. Hard to spend oodles on the house when…

FAUX PLASTER TECHNIQUE A Tutorial by Marie Wendt Materials Needed: 1. Mod Podge – Matte finish 2. 1” Sponge Brush 3. Kleenex Tissue ...

There are several commercially prepared products labeled "dollhouse stucco", or some such out there; most of them aren't very good, and they're all expensive. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make and apply your own dollhouse stucco. It's cheaper to make your own and, most importantly, I think you'll be really pleased with the results. Because you control what goes into it, you have much more control over what it'll look like when applied. First, you'll need two products, both…

Welcome to pt 3 of my Slyvanian Families ' Applewood Cottage dollhouse makeover. Today I show you how I transformed the exterior of my miniature house by mak...

I used Creative Paper Clay for the stone work on my French cottage. HERE is a link to some specific stone making tips on my older blog. ...