Free printable! Titanic notepad stationery

I have just finished reading a book called "El misterioso caso del impostor del Titanic" (The mysterious case of the Titanic imposter), by Carmen Posadas.  I am afraid it is written in Spanish, but if you can read Spanish, I highly recommend it.  It was so intense I finished it in barely 4 days!  My mother recommended it, and I was glad I listened.

I am not going to review it, or write a synopsis - you can research that for yourself.  But I have always been a fan of the Titanic, and I have been studying and reading about it since I discovered its history.  In this era in which recreations are possible, you can find plates, mugs, cups and saucers, towels, tickets, even stationery that are replicas of those that were used in that magnificent ship.

Well, to celebrate the book, I made a free printable for you: a sheet so you can make your own Titanic notepad:

It's very easy to make a notepad out of these sheets.  I will provide instructions, or you can watch this great video to learn the method.

First, gather all your necessary materials:

- Titanic sheets - I usually print 10; that way you get a 40 pages notepad.  You can do more or less, your choice.  Print them in regular copy paper.

- A piece of cardboard - I use 1mm cardboard; that's the same as cereal boxes or soda packets.

- White glue and a brush, or a palette, for extending it.  If you have PVA glue or Mod Podge it works as well.

- A couple of clamps.

- A pencil, ruler and scissors, or X-Acto knife.

- Optional: double-sided tape, and a magnet, or an adhesive magnetic strip.

1) Cut out all your Titanic sheets.  Cut inside the lines if you don't want any black showing.

These sheets have the logo a little off center.  That is already fixed in the printable

2) Use the ruler and pencil to trace a rectangle in the cardboard the same size as your Titanic sheets.  Hint: it measures 12 x 9.3 cm.  Cut it and set it aside for now.

3) Gather the Titanic sheets neatly, with all the borders aligned, and clip them with the clamps.  I use a scrap piece of board so the clamps won't mark the paper.

 

4) Use the palette or the brush to extend a thin layer of glue on the top edge of the clamped sheets.  Let it dry completely and repeat the process a total of 3 times.

5) When everything is completly dry, you can attach the sheets to the piece of cardboard you cut previously.  You can glue them with the glue, or you can use double-sided tape.  Naturally, you can skip this last step, but I prefer to do it so the notepad will be sturdier.  But again, it's up to you.  

 

Well, there you go!  A very nice Titanic notepad for your desk!

This is optional, but it is another idea for you to consider.  Use a piece of magnetic strip or a magnet, and glue it to the back of your notepad.  That way you can put it on your fridge or any metallic surface.  Use it as shopping list or to remind you of important stuff.

I hope you have lots of fun crafting these!  Feel free to print as many as you like, make gifts for friends and pass the file along to anyone; links back are nice too.  Just please do not sell the file or your creations.  Thank you very much, and enjoy! ♥

Scene: Ballet shop

This had been some time almost finished but a couple of days ago it finally was.  Since yesterday we were so busy with the Alien screen, I did not have time to take pictures.  But now is here!

A new scene that I absolutely love: the Ballet shop!

The logo is from an actual ballet shop in Murcia

I just love crafting these little shops!  A lovely scene so well contained, but with a lot of details and that I can actually hang in my wall, so it won't take up any shelf space.

The actual shop comes from Tienda de Casitas.  I find it so pretty, so affordable, and you can actually start decorating the same day you get it because, it just doesn't need anything else!  It opens on the back and it has a "glass" covering the window so nothing gets dusty.

Some things hidden behind the door

 

The tutu comes from Tienda de Casitas.  The hat boxes and the little pink boxes are from Zena Miniatures.

The ballet art posters on the wall come from Etsy.  The pointe shoes in the boxes and the ones in the dome are from Art of Mini.  In fact, they have a lovely section full of ballet items!  The converitble tights come also from Zena Miniatures.

The magazine holder I made myself, and you can find HERE the free printie to make ballet magazines.  The three nutcrackers are also from Art of Mini.  The mugs and the notepad I made myself.  Blue boxes from Zena Miniatures.

The nutcraker pillow came from La Belle Cuisine By Me; the rocking nutcraker was a gift from Nalladris; the suitcases are again from Art of Miniatures, available in the Ballet section; I made the DVDs myself with actual ballet DVD covers, as well as the ballet book (a gift from my husband); and you can get the ballet coloring books HERE.

I love how it came out!  

Christmas crafting

Merry Christmas to all!

Husband and I had a couple of days off, so we crafted something new together.  He wants to start playing role-playing games again, and we got the new edition of Blade Runner, Alien, and Dune.  The thing is, we got a very cool screen for the Blade Runner game - it contains statistics and numbers for the game runner. So he wanted to have a similar one for the Alien game.  The Alien RPG game is mostly out of print, so we made our own.

We took the Blade Runner screen as sample, and composed it following the same pattern.  This is the final result, and I think it looks really good:

It is a triptic; this is the outside, visible to players

And this is the inside, visible to the Game Mother

As first step, we took scrapbook cardboard (2 mm wide) and cut it to the size of the info sheets, allowing for some room to mount them together.  Then, we composed the triptic with construction strips, allowing for some movement, so we would be able to fold it closed:

Then, we covered the edges with more construction strips to hide the color of the cardboard and to give it a more professional finish.  Then, we added stripes on the inside edges to frame the statistics sheets:

Looking good!

It closes perfectly!

Then, we printed and added the outside decorations, and the statistics sheets to the inside:

We absolutely love how it came out!  Now on to start playing...

Free printable! Laboratory glove boxes

It is so much fun to gather graphics and put them together to make cool minis!

Today I am happy to be able to offer a printable with several glove boxes.  These are actual boxes that I have scanned from real ones we have in our lab (or used to have, because we change brands frequently).  I have cleaned them and scaled them down to 1:12 scale.

There is a piece of a real lab glove peeking out of the boxes

The blue ones we have now; the green one we used to have when we were at the University of Virginia (not included in the printable)

Notice that there are S and M size, and they are available open or closed.

There will be more printables coming as soon as I am finished with them.  There will be a bit a everything, from posters to signs  to packing labels, and of course, supplies boxes - like the brown ones in the shelf, that are of serological pippetes.

As always, please feel free to print as many times as you like, gift them to friends and pass the file along to anyone (links back are nice too!).  Just please do not sell the file or your creations.  Thank you and enjoy! ♥

A new project in the making: Modern Laboratory scene!

I am so, so excited about making this!

It was something that I wanted to do for a very long time; since the time we lived in the US and I started to spend time in my husband's lab there.  Evrything was magical, I wanted to take it with me in miniature.  I did not really start the project back then; I was happy to make a couple of kit boxes similar to the ones he used, and I scanned a couple of glove and tissue boxes.  But the lack of access to what would be the actual furniture stopped any desire to start making a lab.

Well, thankfully, that changed recently!  I found by chance a very talented artist on Etsy that has for sale STD files, and 3D printed furniture that looks just like they have been taken out of a lab and shrunk.  He is Jakku Salvage, and if you like modern scince you definitely need to check him out!

When I mentioned this shop to my husband and showed him the models, he was so onboard with the idea of a replica of his lab in mini that I ordered at once the furniture I needed and some really cool props for the scene.

While they were making their way to my home, I started to construct the shadow box.  Husband wanted it no larger than a folio (or letter size for our US friends), because he actually wants to take the scene to the lab once it is completed.  So I purchased 4 pieces of folio size foamboard and assembled them:

Foamboard ready to be assembled!

Before I started the assembly, I tried to find a linoleum floor - that's what we have in the lab - and I was very lucky to find one.  This one comes from Artsy Miniatures, and it looks very much like ours, except ours is not tiled.  But the pattern is almost identical!

A completely printed folio, ready to be glued

Already in place...

...and we glue the walls!  No need to calculate sizes, just trim the excess

And we have our room!  I was so excited when I could finally place the lab bench to see what it looked like:

Love at first sight!

Today I got the fridge, that believe it or not, is almost an exact replica of the one we have in the lab:

The wood shelf is just an ordinary one.  Needs to be painted though...

I am in the process of collecting photographs of actual stuff we use to replicate it in miniature size.  I already have a couple of things done, and I will be starting the printing and assembling.  It's going to be so much fun!

A new addition to the beach hut, and free printable! Tuna can wrappers

This post is going to resonate specially with my fellow miniaturists from Spain, because it features a local famous brand for canned tuna. 

This project has been in the back burner for a long time.  First, because I changed my printer and had to learn how to use the scanner.  Second, because I could not get a good wrapper to scan.  Well, today, that changed!  

Hubby had to help me to set the scanner to work remotely on my computer, but he is the best and he doesn't mind doing these things for me :)

The thing is, I found these tiny round cans in one of my suppliers' website:

Tiny adorable cans!

 

And as they point out, they look similar to tuna cans.  So I decided to buy 3, to make a set of a very well-known package of tuna cans.  They normally come in sets of 3, but recently they released them in an offer of just one at a very cheap price.  So instead of doing a set of 3, I am doing them one by one.

And so, today I finally was able to scan the carboard package, which looks like this:

Then I resized the image in Photoshop, and printed 3 copies to make the wrappings:

It measures only 0.7 cm in high!

It was fun to cut them, fold them and glue them around the cans:

I love them!

These are going to the beach hut, because it is always a good idea to have canned food, in case you get hungry at the beach!

They are tiny, but they look so real!

And also, since I was busy with the beach hut, I decided to glue the straw carpet to a piece of cardboard, because it was getting warped.  Now it looks just like new:

So, if you have around some tiny round cans, or you just want to order them from Tienda de Casitas, here is a link to the free printable with a lot of wrappers for you!  Of course, they will fit perfectly the ones I bought, but you can resize them if yours are a different size.  As always, please feel free to print as many times as you like, gift them to friends and pass the file along to anyone (links back are nice too!).  Just please do not sell the file or your creations.  Thank you and enjoy! ♥

Free printable! 2025 ballet calendar

It's that time of the year again in which we have to get calendars ready!  

Just finished this morning (because I am on holidays, and very happy!), here is a free printie with next year's calendar.  Once more, it is ballet theme, because ballet is awesome.  You have several background pictures, and the tear up 12 month calendar pages.  Made with the help of Print a Calendar website.

As always, please feel free to print as many times as you like, gift them to friends and pass the file along to anyone (links back are nice too!).  Just please do not sell the file or your creations.  Thank you and enjoy! ♥