Dollhouse Miniature Crashed Witch

 

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I really wanted to do a Halloween project for today's tutorial but I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Then while I was out for my walk and thinking about Halloween decorations I remembered the crashed witches. I have always wanted to have one in real life but didn't want to bother with storing it from year to year. In mini I can have the decoration and not have to store a human size decoration. Perfect!

So this one did take me a couple of tries to get started. I made one about halfway to get the process figured out. I did have to do some thinking on my feet at toward the end of the video. I hope you don't mind my thought process as I worked out a couple of bugs with the witch. I left them in for two reasons 1- I am hoping you can see how I worked out some steps and use that in your own projects and 2- I was simply running out of time filming this. Normally I have the Tuesday video already uploaded and scheduled by end of the day on Friday. This last week that didn't happen and then on the days I had time to film it there were so many things going on around me that were very noisy that it was hard to get this filmed.

So I started with the hands and shoes. These I felt would be easiest to make from polymer clay. I formed them on toothpicks that had been dipped in TLS. I can't tell you specific clays I used because I just grabbed out of my scrap clay bag. You will need a black for the shoes and a green (or what ever color you want) for the hands.

By pre-baking the “fingers” they can be easily added to the hands and then all is baked together. The shoes were fun to figure out and I think I will be using the same method at Christmas for some elf shoes.

Once the clay was baked I did paint the “legs” with some orange paint. You can do yours in whatever color you choose.

For her hat I used two types of paper. A heavy black card-stock for the brim, which was cut into a 1 ½” circle. And a very lightweight black paper that I used for the top of the hat. This was cut into a 2” circle which I cut in half. I formed the half circle into a cone which was then glued to the circle of card-stock. I used a piece of a cotton ball to help hold the tiny edges together.

Once this was dry I added some orange glitter to the hat kind of like a hat band, after-all I think our witch would want to sparkle a bit. The glitter I used was some nail glitter from the dollar store, this is a good source for fun glitters that are inexpensive and usually small amounts.

I wanted to add a very simple broom for our poor witch. For this I started by making a small very quick tassel from tan embroidery floss. I then added a toothpick handle. I think this same method could be used to make a decorative broom like those cinnamon scented ones that are sold at this time of year in the craft stores.

I used some simple paper tubes for the arms of our witch. I really didn't measure much of anything I just went by how I felt it should look.

I used a standard size craft stick to act as a base to build the witch on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I added some more of the cotton ball to pad her out a bit.

 

 

 

 I also used a bit of the cotton ball to help glue the legs on.

I used more of the thin paper to wrap the body of the witch to cover everything up and make it look neater.

The finishing touch was a cape made from the same lightweight paper.

I love how she turned out.

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