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Miniature plants and other related projects for dollhouses, room boxes, and dioramas

 

See also pages

 

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Links to miniature plant projects

Wizard Keeper of the Enchanted Woods Enchanted Hutch~1:12th Scale
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  • photo albums, blog posts, web pages

Dollhouse Plants - by Bev Gallerani in My Dream Dollhouse

 

Plant Blogs

  • Blogs concentrating on plants or categories/labels about them in blogs

 

Plant Groups

  • Discussion groups, forums (or forum categories) and photo groups dedicated to plants.

 

Paint Supplies for sale

  • Supplies needed for making plant projects.

 

Miniature plants for sale

  • Do you have a section for plants in your shop? Add a direct link to that item here.

 

Plant Books

  • Books about miniature plant projects (also books with chapters about them)

Making Miniature Gardens - Freida Gray

Dollhouse decor and more

 

 

Instructions for miniature plants

 

Miniature plant printables

 

Plant Wallpapers

  • Wallpapers that go well with plant projects

 

Other Plant Printies

  • Book/magazine covers related to plants

 

Plant Links

  • links to sites showing how to make items related to plants

Beth's House Plants - by Scarlet Sails Miniatures

Heart Shaped Topiary by Le Petite Monde de La Fee Erie (French)

Ivy - from Pequenas Cosa 

Introduction to Plant Making - from Glorious Twelfth

Lavender - from Ruby's Girl

Mini Flowers and Plants - Pinterest Tuts Board by Pauline Coombs

Heart Leaf Philodendron by Flor (Spanish)

Palm Tree by Marjatan Talossa (Finnish)

Plant Stand - Julie Warren

Plant Tutorial - by Nualamary (Spanish)

Pygmy Palm - from Mini De-Lights, uses foxtails for the leaves and ground pepper to texture the trunk.

Rubber Plant by Les Maisons de Micky (French)

Shade Flowers (Hostas, Caladiums, Astilbes, Hydrangeas) - Real Life Dollhouse Miniatures

Spider Plant - by Sole Garcia Zamora in Little Things

Terracotta Plant Pots - from Amber’s House, using card paper

Topiaries - from The Spruce

Vegetables and Herbs

 

Miniature Plant Videos

  •  YouTube videos about miniature projects related to this subject

 

Houseplants from Tape and Wire

Devils Ivy - from the Crafty Frog

DIY Houseplants from Aluminum Foil - from Real life Dollhouse

Miniature Eucalyptus - by Luisa Cyrot

Miniature Ferns from Paper - from Dinky Dioramas

 

Plant Research/ Inspiration

 

Miniature Plant Tips/Hints

  • Add realism to your rooms with the natural fragrance of Eucalyptus.  Punch mini leaves from "real" preserved Eucalyptus leaves with an inexpensive 1/8" circle punch.  Use cloth-covered wire in brown or forest green (or paint it)  to match the leaves.  Glue the mini leaves alternately down the wire to look like a stem of Eucalyptus. Use a photo or a real stem as "model" to correctly place the leaves. Use heavy, tacky glue and tweezers to place the leaves. Make a number of branches and place in a vase or bundle into a wall swag or wreath.   If you have an enclosed room box, the room will be scented with the smell of eucalyptus....it is great!

  • Cattails: Put a "blob" of glue on the end of a piece of wire. Now, dip this into powdered instant coffee.
  • Cattails: Use preserved ryegrass- usually found with dried flowers & materials. Gently tear the ryegrass into thin pieces in a variety of widths. Break off into 4" lengths. Find the sturdiest of the ryegrass pieces for the cattails. Take a small amount of Fimo and flatten out to be about a 1" square.
    Wrap the Fimo around the chosen ryegrass pieces about 1/8" from the top. Roll the wrapped piece to make into a cylinder form. Should it get too long, pinch off the excess and carefully tap ends to create the right look. Bake the cattails as you normally would bake Fimo (in a full-size oven only) but WATCH CAREFULLY as you have grass that IS FLAMMABLE but shouldn't be a problem for 10 minutes at 200 degrees. (or just use air-dry clay!) Whether you put them in a basket or use in a landscape, place some of the loose pieces of grass around the cattails so that they drape naturally.

 

 

Ideas about what is needed for these projects

  • links to inspiring pages

Miniature Gardens, Plants, and Flowers - includes some bonsai, Pinterest board by Christa Masri

Miniature Plants and Flowers - Pinterest board by Ersilia F. Tuts and printies for flowers, leaves and plants

  • ideas for shop names
  • YouTube videos about the subject

 

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