Home Sweet Home -- made sweeter with Shimmerz!!

I've always had a fascination with dollhouses and miniatures. I bought a plain wooden house a while back and I've been saving it for the right project. Last week I was finally ready to dive in. I gathered up some goodies and went to work. Here is my Home Sweet Home:













I used Shimmerz on several places throughout my little house:
*I painted the chimney with Pixie Dust Blingz and added some fine glitter on top of it.
*I painted a piece of decorative Prima felt with Hi Ho Silver Blingz to create the shimmery, silvery decoration at the top of the house.
*I sprayed the bedspread fabric (originally a light tan color) and the downstairs rug (originally white) with Bed of Roses Shimmerz Spritz for a little extra color and shimmer.

Here are some of the other things I did to make my little Home Sweet Home:
*I covered the outside and some of the inside walls with Prima paper.
*I made the bed and the chairs out of the packaging from Prima flowers. I added little pearls and rhinestones.
*I glued buttons onto the roof
*I made the curtains out of fabric and made the rods out of pieces of wooden dowels.
*I made the bedspread and the pillows out of fabric. Thank goodness for Fabritac!!
*I made the bed skirt out of lace.
*To make the lamp shade, I took a strip of Prima paper and created tiny pleats, then I glued the ends together. I added a little rod and stuck it into a gold button base.
*I glued a stack of white buttons together to make the bases for the table. For the table tops, I covered chipboard circles with patterned paper.
*I printed out a tiny copy of our family photo and put it in a mini metal K&Co frame to hang on the wall. Yep, that's us!!
*I computer printed the "Home Sweet Home" sign and put it in a frame to hang on the downstairs wall.
*I scanned the cover of Creating Keepsakes magazine and printed out a tiny version of it to put in the basket.
*I put a few mini Prima flowers in a vase that I "borrowed" (shhhhhh . . . don't tell) from my daughters' dollhouse.

I can't tell you how much fun I had creating this little house!! I'm ready to move right in!

-Stacy Cohen