Miniature Time Traveller Issue 1

Miniature Time Traveller Magazine Issue #1/21 www.miniaturetimetraveller.com A POWDER COMPACT, EYE SHADOWS AND LIPSTICK WITH MAKE UP JAR in 12th Scale To grace any dressing table You will need: some oval punches or a template and a small round punch. Black card and pale pink paper, ‘Inksentials’ Glossy Accents—a clear dimensional embellishment liquid. Optional 2X Black Bugle beads and a short length of red coated electric wiring. A white bead and a black headed paper split pin. Punch two larger ovals out of black card and four smaller ones. Coat one side of each pair that will be the lid with the Glossy Accents liquid. This will create a domed effect. When dry embellish again with a piece of gold sticker of your choice. If you are clever you could paint a little pink rose with green leaves on, before applying the Glossy Accents. Punch out of the pink paper, one large oval and one small oval. Touch up with pastel to create the right shade of powder and rouge. Glue the ‘powder’ on onto the bottom oval of the compact. Glue the ‘rouge’ in the middle of one of the smaller ovals. For eye shadow punch two round circles out of the pink paper but colour them in with an iridescent pen, in colours of your choice. Glue them on the remaining small oval. The lipstick: cut a small length of red electric wiring and insert into a bugle bead. The other bead is the lid just lying nearby. The make up jar: cut the metal ‘legs’ off the pin and glue to the top of the white barrel shaped bead . Compacts: Glue the lids to the bases with a dab of glue in the centre where the two ovals meet keeping the two slightly ajar so you can see the powder. Arrange the compacts, lipstick and make up jar as you want on a tray or a large card oval. INTERESTING ROUND TABLE WORKSHOPS TO TRY You will need: Some pale pink crepe paper or white, whatever you choose. Fine green florist wire Green paper for the sepals Some plastic beads as a base. Use a variety of sizes of beads. White are best. Method: Insert the wire into the bead and glue strongly in place. Wait until dry. Fold a sheet of crepe paper into 8ths vertically and tear off a strip off the top about 1.5 cm deep. It will have the original cut edge and your raggedy one. You don’t have to be precise and the ragged edge gives you the rumpled look of the rose. Cover the bead with tacky glue and starting higher up the bead so the paper projects over the top, start wrapping the crepe paper strip around the bead. Think of overlapping petals. Fold and dip and glue as you go. Large not quite open roses look best. Small beads and tighter wrapping make lovely buds. To get the tousled look feel free to rip things a little as you go. Pull the bottom of the last round of paper in tightly around the base of the bead and glue in place. Using a daisy shaped punch, in dark or light green, cut the sepals out and thread one on each stem and glue to base of bead/rose. A few punched out green leaves glued to the stems complete the arrangement. Use the same technique to make carnations. Tear off an varying width narrow strip to glue to a small yellow bead on a piece of green wire. Make fine irregular cuts through half the depth of the paper to give the carnation it’s characteristic look. Prior to folding, paint a jagged stripe along the strip in a darker colour or when finished dip into a saucer with pink watercolour paint in it. Prepare several strips of different depths and giving yourself a bit more in the last wrapping to pinch into the stem and to fan out the last row of petals. Make a green sepal and thread onto the wire. CABBAGE ROSES for Spring