Flooring!!

I am a very bad, bad blogger aren't I!? I have been reading everyone's blogs and have found lots of wonderful pieces of inspiration - for current and future projects; but I can happily say that the reason I have not been blogging is because I have (honestly!) been working on the Post Office!

Here's the progress I've made in the last week:



Post Office Flooring. I made this with fat lollypop sticks, mahogany wood stain and stuck them to the floor with Tacky Wax!



Kitchen flooring. I decided I didn't like the card tiled flooring, so I made some wooden flooring just the same as I did with the Post Office. Only this time I stained the lollypop sticks with "Pine" woodstain.

So, no new furniture. You've seen the fireplace. That candle has fallen over. So whats new? Have you noticed the stairs? And the skirting? Yup - they weren't there a little while back :) A friend helped me cut the angles in my skirting, because it's wood and you know what I'm like with wood - I mean heck, God knows what came over me when I managed to make that fireplace!



So haven't I been a good girly :) I doesn't look like a lot has been done, but this was in a week - and now that I'm back at college that's a lot for me! I do have some more progress to show you, but I'm making sure I've got those tiny details sorted and then I'll post up some piccies!

Also, I would like to welcome all my new followers! Thank you so much for following my blog and all the lovely comments; they are greatly appreciated and really make me push to upload my progress for you! You're all stars.

Now, I've got some research to do for my next project - The Bakers Dozen, which is going to be done in the Georgian Era - so if anyone has any pointers they would like to share I'd be very grateful.

So, bye for now!!

Shellbyfay

Wow, this is my first tutorial! I hope this can be of some use to you and I hope you find it pretty easy to follow! Enjoy.

Okay so today I’m putting a tiled floor into my kitchen.

So, step 1. Print off your desired printie. I’ve printed my flooring (pictured) from  http://www.mysmallobsession.com/home.html . It is called ‘tiles’ .

Step 2. Cut off the white edges from the edge of your printie – if there are any of course. I know that some printies fill the entire page, but this one leaves a small white border. You can then spray your printie with a fixer to stop the inks running. If you don’t have a fixer, you can use hairspray! This is what I use and it works very well.

Step 3. Take your piece of card. It doesn’t have to be very thick. Glue your printie to the piece of card. Make sure you use a decent amount of glue around the edges particularly, as you don’t want it to start peeling when you’ve got it in your dolls house. Try to keep bubbles to a minimum, but don’t worry too much if there are a few small ones, these will disappear when the glue dries. Then leave it to dry. I left mine for about an hour so it was very dry when I returned.

Step 4. (this is if your printie is tiled/wooden/brick so you can put in the embossed detail. If not – skip this step.) When your printie has dried to the card, take a small embossing tool. Mine is just a cheap one from my local craft store. You can buy these pretty cheap; mine was a set of 3 and cost me about £8. You can get some yourself from this online site:  http://www.polymerclaypit.co.uk/ProductGroup.asp?Level1=27&Level2=184&Level3=0&PID=10057&Action=&FromPage=1 

Run the embossing tool down all the straight edges and the grouting parts. Depending on your pattern this can either be a quick task, or a very long, slow and boring one. Mine was pretty slow as I had 3 sheets to do and it was a pretty complicated pattern to emboss.

Tip: Do not watch TV while doing your printie, it’ll distract you and then it’ll take you even longer. Also, putting on some quick paced music helped me and I embossed lines along with the beat! Haha.

Step 5. Once you’ve got the embossing done make sure that all the edges are still stuck to the card. If not just put a bit of glue where needed and leave to dry.
Now you can make sure your Printie fits your room! This can take a little while to figure out if you have a pretty big space to fill. You may need to cut pieces into squares/rectangles and fit it that way, just like a jigsaw.

Step 6. Now that you’ve gotten your Printie to fit your room you can fix it to the flooring.

I’m using doubled over cello tape because it’s likely that I’ll want to re-decorate one day and it’s easy to just pull it out. If you choose this option, don’t worry you don’t get bumpy bits where the tape is if you flatten it pretty well. And once you’ve got your furniture on the flooring it’ll stay flat.
You can also glue your printie to the floor if this suits you better!

 For more flooring printies, visit:
http://www.jennifersprintables.com/
http://www.printmini.com/printables/p1.shtml http://www.mysmallobsession.com/home.html

I hope this tutorial was helpful, if you have any question please don’t hesitate to ask.