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...