Dollhouse Miniature Paper Towel Holder

 

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A note about the blog post, I somehow managed to delete most of the photos I took while making this project.

I got the idea for this project from the paper towel holder in my real kitchen. Mine is all wood but the idea is the same and I used the measurements from mine to make this one. I love how it turned out.

I decided the mini one should have a marble base since I love the look of marble right now. Also I love to create marble with polymer clay, it is such a simple look to achieve and just looks really nice.

If you've watched any other videos where I made marble you will recognize my basic technique. I change the colors a little bit every time I make it but the changes are usually small. I almost always use mostly a white/translucent mix. I find that all white looks too dense and too much translucent has a strange color. I then add my accent colors. Normally I use greys for the main accent with a touch of black and a touch of something that will give a bit of glimmer, this time I used silver for that and I love how subtle it is. I didn't want this piece to be too sparkly or over the top, just a simple marble.

Since it would be really hard to make such a small amount of marble clay there will be some leftover. Just store it with in a zip-lock sandwich bag with your polymer clay, I am sure you will find a use for it in the future.

For the wood parts of this paper towel holder I used one of those fancy toothpicks. If you don't have any of those just use a piece of really thin dowel or a regular toothpick, you could even add a tiny bead to the top if you wish.

I dipped the wooden pieces into TLS (Translucent Liquid Sculpey) to help make sure they stay where I put them.

Normally when I make marble I like to just buff it to a shine but with the wooden pieces in the way that would not work so I added a coat of Satin Mod Podge to the entire holder once baked and cooled.

The roll of paper towels has a strip of regular printer paper (¾ “ by 11 ½”) that I made into what is in essence a paper bead. I formed this bead shape over a bamboo skewer being careful to not get it glued to the skewer and to keep the strip of paper rolling straight. I then added a small strip of Kleenex type tissue as an outside layer to be the visible “paper towels” on the roll. This was much more in scale to look like paper towels.

Paint brush and Mod Podge used in this tutorial were provided to me free of charge from Plaid.

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