AIM Advent Calendar Day 24

Materials & tools required: Card - See below for further details

PVA adhesive or tacky glue & double sided adhesive tape

Craft knife & metal ruler (With finger guard)

Small scissors

Sharp pencil & long clear plastic ruler

Permanent fibre tip pens: I used a dark grey, terracotta and dark

brown.

Household sponges / cosmetic sponges

Paint brushes (Assorted sizes to suit scale)

Choosing which type of card to use… The choice of which card you use for this simple technique really

depends on both the scale that you are working in and also how textured or

chunky you want your finished tiles to look.

However, I would recommend the following:

1:12 & 1:16: 620gsm card, heavy weight water colour paper or cereal box

card

1:24: 400gsm card, water colour paper, cereal box card or even old greeting

cards.

1:48: 160gsm card, blotting paper, wallpaper lining paper.

This unusual finish can be used on any flat tiles to completely change the overall look of a dolls house.

The mottled finish was inspired by both a full scale timber frame cottage that I once saw, and also by the

pictures in the story books that I avidly read as a child. So if you want your dolls house to have one foot in

reality and one foot firmly in the fantasy world, this project is just for you!

Take a piece of card and completely cover the reverse side with double

sided tape. Next using either a craft knife or scissors, cut strips of card roughly as

wide as the ‘length’ dimensions given on the note pad, see right. To create crooked

tiles cut one long edge of the card strip straight and cut the other long edge with

random gentle curves, see picture 1. Next, take a pair of scissors and snip vertically

into the pre cut strip at varying angles, with each cut being approximately three

quarters deep into the strip. Trim the edges of random tiles to create a rustic look,

again see picture 1.

Fantasy tiles... 1:24

Paint shades used: *Mucky Paint *Bea’s Brick

*From Petite Properties’ Paint range

By AIM Member, Bea Broadwood

1:24

STEP 1

PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...


1:48

1:16

1:12

This project is suitable for ALL the scales shown above..!

(Approximate) Individual tile sizes for different scales… 1:12 = 24mm x 16mm 1:16 = 18mm x 12mm 1:24 = 12mm x 8mm 1:48 = 6mm x 4mm (Length x width)

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1:24

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Working with one strip of card at a time, remove

the backing from a strip of tiles and apply two lines of PVA

adhesive along the sticky surface of the tape. Starting at the bottom of

the elevation you wish to cover with shingles, stick the card tile strips

into position as shown in picture 2, butting up two ends of the card

strips to create an invisible join when required. Stick additional strips

into place in the same way, each one off set and over lapping the

preceding row below, again see pictures 2 and 3.

Cover the entire elevation or roof surface in shingles, trimming the ends

of each tile strip as required, see picture 3.

Paint the tiled surface with dark brown paint and leave to dry.

Using permanent fibre tip pens in grey, brown and terracotta, colour in

random tiles, as shown in picture 4. Sponge paint the tiles with terracotta

paint, ensuring that the dark brown paint and coloured tiles still show

through, see picture 5. Lightly sponge a little green paint randomly over

the tiles to create a weathered effect if required.

STEP 2

STEP 3

This project was

taken from Bea’s latest book: Create Exterior

Finishes

Merry Christmas from Bea, Tony &

Mo of Petite Properties!

www.petite-properties.com

AIM Advent Calendar Day 24

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