Greetings to all…
It’s a new year and time for a new project…this one was inspired by a vintage greeting card I saw online…see the top left of the completed house picture below...
I thank our forum friend, Steve, for getting me interested in making the little fellow who lives in the toadstool house…here’s a link to the topic thread he started…https://www.cardboardchristmas.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1438&hilit=putzish
The house body is a tapered cardboard tube…sorta like an upside-down paper cup…see the PDF below for patterns for the major pieces…
(Note…these free patterns are provided for your personal, non-commercial use)…
The top is a ring of 3/16” thick foam board glued to a chunk of foam about 1” thick and sculpted with a craft knife and sandpaper…I added a layer of paper mache using paper kitchen towel before priming and painting…the white dots were painted with the tip of 3/8” wood dowel and a pencil eraser…
The fence is crepe myrtle twigs…a gnarled length of tree branch was used for the stump…base measures about 5 1/2” square x 3/4” thick…the holly branch came from Hobby Lobby…I'm going to add a small gray squirrel to the top of the stump shortly...
I’ll be posting additional construction details and photos…stay tuned…
Howard…
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