Framed Kitchen and Hinged
Room Box Assembly (1:12 scale)
Required tools and
shopping list:
- X-acto knife and fresh
blades
- Small detailing scissors
- Nail or awl
- Hammer
- Handful of round type
toothpicks
- Metal straight edge ruler
- Small artist's paintbrush
- Large paintbrush (for
adhering wallpaper)
- Glue gun and plenty of
sticks. This works the absolute best on seams of
the actual box assembly.
- Small pieces of aluminum
foil to use as "glue pot" and "paint
palette"
- Fast-grab, quick-dry
glue. Nicole sells a great one. White craft glue
takes too long to dry and is messy. Glue stick
will work, but becomes brittle and pops loose
after time.
- Slower drying white craft
glue that dries clear. Check your printer's
colorfastness. You will need to spray each print
job with spray clear enamel, but your ink may
still run. Do a test on a simple printing. If
the color runs with white craft glue, then try
to use rubber cement instead for papering walls.
- Clear acrylic spray
enamel to coat print jobs
- double-sided removable
tape
- Excellent quality heavy
weight inkjet paper--why do all this work on
paper that doesn't pick up the detail and
color!! I used Epson S041568 Double-sided Matte
Paper, 47 lb, 9.7 mil.
- Use a high-end inkjet
photo paper for the stained glass. You want
light to emit through the window paper.
- Print the pattern pieces
on plain office bond--nothing special needed for
the pattern outlines.
- Cutting surface. I love
my self-heal Nicole cutting pad which cost me
under $10 on sale. You get a much better cut
than with cardboard and your blade will last so
much longer.
- I used Apple
Spice, Buttercrunch, Buttercup and Buttercream color acrylic craft paint
- 8"x10" simple frame with
glass or clear plexiglass (remove backing
- 4 styrofoam balls for box
feet. I used 2.5" in diameter, but you may
vary size.
- 1 piece of sandpaper
- 1 package of mini 360"
hinges. I used Darice 9142-26 1 5/8" brass hinge
(2 per pack).
- Optional: Hold Tu Plastic
Adhesive (it's that rubbery clay that you use to
hang posters on a wall without damaging the
wall)
- A sheet (you could call
it a plank) of foam board, a.k.a. foam core
board, that is 20"x30" and is 3/16" thick.
Patterns will not work for any other thickness!
- Window with an
opening of
2-9/16"w x
2-15/16"h. I used a window made by
Houseworks, Ltd., Standard Single Glazed Window,
#5040, 2388 Pleasantdale Road, Atlanta, GA 30340
.
- Small piece of sheet
acetate to encase stained glass window, or you
can use the packaging that the window comes in!
I'm assuming that you
have already made the Lady's Parlor. If not, you may
like to look at that tutorial before beginning on
the kitchen.
PDF
Printing Tips
These are tips for printing any of the Paper Minis
Pattern Files.
If you exported the files to another format, I
cannot support that and suggest that you stay with
the files as they were made.
If you are printing the files as they were
made (my pdf format) and the
printouts are not the size they are supposed
to be, then there is/are setting(s) in your dialog
print box that have been changed--possibly
inadvertently by another application. Since each
printer brand and model has a different layout in
their print dialog box, I can't tell you exactly
where to look. I can, however, give you clues on
what to look for. You do not want any scaling, print
options must be set
at 100%. You do not want a "fit to page" or
"fit to paper" setting. You do not want an automatic
page rotation so that the orientation is incorrect,
if it is set for landscape try setting it to
portrait paper orientation. You do not want changes
in margin settings and your paper setting should be
8.5"x11" (or try 11x8.5)
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