hi everyone welcome back to my channel where the gnomes live this is Sharon
ojala and today I'm going to show you how I made this little paper towel
holder so the other day I uploaded a video tutorial for how to make my
kitchen cupboards so I uploaded a tutorial for these cupboards here and I
had attached to the wall a paper towel holder and a bunch of you had noticed
that paper towel holder and asked if I made it I did not this is a store-bought
piece and it was gifted to me so I don't even know where it came from
it was gifted to me a few years ago actually so it got me looking at it and
then I realized you know what I could make one so that's what we're going to
do today I'm going to show you how to make this piece right here with the same
tutorial you could turn it into a little shelf and you can paint them a variety
of different colors so these actually look like real wood but they're not wood
at all I made the wood out of an empty cereal box so you're gonna need a cereal
box or a cracker box will work tacky glue pair of scissors a ruler exacto
knife and I also use the brayer but you can use a rolling pin or a jar anything
that you can roll over the cardboard with going to get it all glued together
and then we're also going to need our paint and for this one here I used burnt
umber and then I highlighted it with a soft suede and when I made this one
right here I actually used a little stick you can also use a toothpick to
stick the roll on and that gets pushed right through both sides but at the end
of the video I realized didn't have to do that step at all you can leave that
step out all together and just make it look like you have a stick in there so
that's just rolled up paper towel and then I glued it in place and on the ends
I just dotted in a little bit of paint so you can skip that step altogether or
you can add it it's up to you so we're going to start off first preparing our
cereal box so let's do that so grab your cereal box some scissors and let's get
started
now I'm going to cut this down into three pieces now I'm going to glue all
three pieces together so the glue has to go over the entire surface so I'm just
gonna spread this out you don't want any space without glue it'll just make your
life easier later and try to keep glue from getting on the outside because we
want to put books on top of this and we don't want to glue it to any surface and
now I'm going to glue this side and I'll go to that colored side and this colored
side together so that leaves me plain on both sides if you have a brayer or a
bottle or a rolling pin it'll be helpful to roll over it now okay I'm gonna set
it under books before I do that I'm just going to tape the ends just to keep it
from slipping okay I'm gonna set my big book on there and I'm gonna leave that
for about twenty to thirty minutes it's been about 30 minutes and I believe it's
dry enough to work with I could leave it a little bit longer but I think it's
okay we'll just get started here I'm just gonna cut straight lines I'm gonna
cut all the edges into straight lines I'm going to use my cutting mat to help
me using a straight line on the mat
so there's my beautiful chunk to work with and you can see the edges are all
beautifully glued together that's what I wanted and if you find later on they
start coming up at all all you have to do is just run a little bit of glue
along the edge and just let it dry and it'll be fine
so now we can cut our pieces and it's made up out of four pieces like this
and the toothpick of course I'm going to give you the measurements in centimeters
because we can get a more accurate number doing it that way and first we're
going to cut this piece right here and it's three and a half by three
centimeters so let's do the larger number first three and a half
three and a half so three and a half is this width right here so now I want to
cut three so to get this shape up here this up here all I did was just find the
middle and I just guesstimate it um height I would say it's right about
there and then make another mark great about here and an even mark on this side
here even with this mark you can use your
ruler if you wanted to and make sure is that the middle I think right here's the
middle yeah I was messed that up there and I'll just draw a line from the from
point to point and I can cut it with my scissors or my exacto knife and you can
play around with that shape you don't have to do exactly what I'm doing here
and if you have sandpaper you can also use sandpaper to kind of round out the
corners if you see if you want to so that's the main piece cut now we're
going to cut the shell for the top here now you can do it a couple different
ways you can cut it to fit straight across some edge the edge of this piece
here or we can cut it to fit on the inside of these pieces here it's totally
up to you I'm gonna do the inside but I'm still going to cut the same width
going across so let's cut the shelf at 1 centimeter wide and I'm going to cut it
3 and 1/2 centimeters long
so just cut it the exact same width as your back piece set it aside and we'll
go on to make the side pieces and then I'll show you how to cut this one down
to fit perfectly in side to side pieces if you plan to do it that way okay now
we're going to cut our side pieces and these get tapered down with our scissors
the top and bottom corner and they're a little bit less than one and a half
centimetres wide and the length is totally up to you
a little bit less than one and a half centimetres I'm not gonna worry about it
too much because like I said I want to be tapering this down with my scissors
so there's one and a half there I'm just going to count back two millimeters and
then this side here and now I'll cut across that line I'll make another piece
here and the side pieces can actually be as long as you want them to be I'll show
you what I mean in a second so there's my side pieces start it I'm going to be
cutting those again in a second so my shelf I can do it so it goes from side
to side edge to edge I mean on my back piece and then put this underneath or
you can have it sitting on the inside and then the side pieces go on the
outside so if you want to cut your shelf to fit on the inside then what we need
to do is put two side pieces together keeping those side-by-side and I'll just
use my pin now I have enough space on each side of that shelf for my side
pieces so my side pieces can be as long as I want them to be they can go from
corner to corner let's do that let's do it corner to corner
now I'm going to round out the top and bottom of the side pieces so they have a
little bit of a nicer shape to them and when you're doing this you can do any
design that you want you don't have to do exactly what I'm doing I'm just doing
your basic shapes just to get you through this tutorial and then you can
play around with it and make it your own and at the same time I'm going to take a
little tiny bit off the width might go around with my scissors that's how mine
is gonna go so now we're going to do the paper towel holder part just put in here
and we have to do that part before we do anything else to it so let's get our
toothpick rip mine go I have my paper towel here I'm just gonna break it down
into us easier science to work with I
want to cut a strip of the paper towel so I'm going to fold it over a couple
times first and make sure that this line is nice and even now we can cut with
that will fit inside here and remember to take and count the side pieces as
well so I'm gonna cut this down to about there and I think that's a good wits
right there if it's not I can always trim it after I get it rolled rolled up
okay so now I'm going to roll it around with the toothpick and remember don't
cut the toothpick yet you want to have it nice and long and if you want it to
spin like this one the store-bought one it spins if you don't care if it spins
or not you can roll it tighter so it's just whatever your personal preference
is
so I want the role to hang off just a little bit like that so I'm going to put
dab of glue not on the end just on the inside of the end to make my life a lot
easier I am going to put it a little bit of paint on one end of this stick just
on the very tip of the end right here I'm gonna place this on my back piece
okay and now I'm gonna put my side piece there right on the so it lines up and
now I'll just dab this here and that's where I need to put the hole and I'll
use that as a template for the other side as well
popping in with an edit reminding you that you don't need to put that stick in
there if you don't want to you can skip that step altogether so if you're
deciding on not using this stick then don't bother putting those little holes
in the side pieces so I'm gonna put the hole in this one first and I'm gonna go
from the inside to the outside and by the inside I mean when it's glued on
it's gonna be on the inside here it just makes it easier when you push the stick
through this part that you have the hole being pushed through from the inside to
the outside it just makes it easier for yourself I'm just gonna use this so I
don't push the pin right through my fingers so this hole you want it to just
be snug enough to hold that stick inside so to small is better if it's gonna be
anything you don't want it to be too large of course and already know because
I've done this is the second one of me now that the eye of this needle is a
good size for the stick that I'm using it's I'm going to use this as my
template so that's how they're gonna go on the insides are facing each other I'm
just gonna mark a hole here now
and there we go we can go from the inside to the outside again I'm going to
just trim it up just a little bit make it easier for myself pushing it in there
again don't cut that down yet we went to attach it first and then we'll worry
about cutting it down to size but before we glue anything in place now we're
going to paint our pieces and I'm using burnt umber I'm gonna do two coats of
burnt umber make sure to get the sides as well my second coat is dry now I'm
going to just lightly dry brush it with a soft suede just to give it a little
bit of texture and lighten it up a little bit and I'll do all the pieces
shelf inside pieces as well on my original piece that I made yesterday I
painted on little tiny mushrooms and you can do the same you don't have to do
this guys this is totally up to you I'm gonna use red and cream yesterday I
painted them on after I had already glued everything together so I think
doing it before is a little bit easier I'll start with the middle one first I'm
using the tip of a pencil is just easier to get the paint where you want it
instead of using a paintbrush on these tiny little pieces anyway
and then I'll do the stems
it's just dots really that's all it is not any kind of fantastic drawing or
anything and I also did some green here for grass and I kind of messed it up
yesterday I'll see if I can do it again but I'm gonna let that dry first in fact
I'm gonna set it underneath my fan just let that dry and then I'll work on it a
little bit more so the green I used yesterday was dark so I'm gonna try a
lighter one here and see if this helps and I'm just going to just put little
blades just barely touch here
I'm gonna put the dots on I have to kind of push the pin into the wood so it'll
grab that paint
now we can put it all together and I want the paper part to be rolled on the
outside so I'm just going to remember that when I put this on here
you might have to reopen that hole maybe got paint in there just push a pin
through you just want to make sure that they're spaced perfectly
I'm a boat edge to edge and these will I'm gonna go ahead and glue those in
place it's helpful with that toothpick too long right now oh that looks so
pretty already okay now I'm going to put my other piece in here just want to make
sure that everything's gonna fit nice
that's awesome okay Oh glue way too much there
it's gonna get that excess glue up make sure all your lines are nice and
straight nothing's too wonky I like wonky but when you're doing little
things like this it's better not to have the shelf all wonky looking you want it
to a nice and straight looking shelf so I think that looks good right about
there so what I'll do now is I'll just let this glue set I'll put my fan on it
and then we'll come back and I'll show you how I finish up the toothpick I have
to say that is so so cute I am in love with this little thing and I'll start it
off with a cereal box and a little bit paint
okay I'm gonna snip off the end of this now and I like that little button luck
on the end that looks actually pretty cute so I'm just going to dip this in
here give it a little bit of that paint and then just touch it up that's all
that has to be done all right my friends that brings us to the end of this video
tutorial I hope you had fun hope you got your self a little paper towel holder
made or maybe you made a little shelf if you did make either one of those pieces
I'd sure love to see it you can post pictures on my Facebook page where the
gnomes live thanks so much for watching and we'll
see you super soon