Another tiny shop!

Back last year I made this card for my dear crafty friend Jo whose love of minatures is growing day by day.

My starting point was the Graphic 45 Old Curiosity Shop 8 x 8 paper pad. In fact the cover of the pad gave me the floor design. My doors were cut using the Poppy Stamps Grand Madison Window die cut 8 times from textured black card and pieced together with acetate sandwiched between. I added some little charms layered to give me a door handle. I used a concertina strip of card at each side to mount the doors away from the background and to give me space to fit in all my little elements to make it feel like an old junk shop full of curiosities. I used the number and sign from the paper pad and used a Tim Holtz die for the mounts for the sign with some brads for detail. I used all sorts of things inside the shop, some German scrap to give the sense of a shelf, a little plastic skeleton, with paper goggles and highlights of Treasure Gold gilding wax. I added a little Prima clock, a paper scrap angel, a beaded pin and various other paper elements to give the impression of a shop stuffed full with interesting artefacts.

I wanted to add some external elements, to stand on the pavement outside the shop, so I added two sandwich boards made from the G45 pad, added some butterfly embellishments and pen nibs for bodies. The tiny frame was pink plastic, but I coloured it with Treasure Gold and added a vintage train image and the finishing touch was a Wendy Vecchi sewing machine embellishment which needed no additions.

This is actually my second miniature shop card, you can see my first one here, I just love making small things!

Jo was really delighted with her card which I was able to deliver in person when we met in London last summer for a theatre trip on a very hot day, which feels a long way from the weather we are experiencing now!

Elaine