hi everyone welcome back to my channel where the gnomes live this is sharon
ojala and today we're gonna be making some I guess you could call it chipboard
it's like fake wood pieces I'm using this material to build in my gnome home
so yesterday I just made these little paper towel holders using this very same
material so I thought I'd throw this video together for those of you who are
mini makers also journal makers this is great stuff for book covers as well it
paints up easily and it also cuts really easy with your exacto knife or your
scissors and it's a fun way of recycling because I'm using recycled materials to
make this if you use the larger cereal box like this you can make a piece
that's about 7 inches wide by close to 11 inches long every layer that you use
of one of these boxes here gives you about a millimeter of thickness so to
make this little shelf here I used three layers glued together and
that gave me three millimeters here but you can build up that thickness this one
has four layers and that's four millimeters but you can keep building
and you can make it as thick wrist in as you need it to be so let's get started
we're going to be using the empty cereal box like I said and some tacky glue
you'll also need something to roll the finished piece with I'm using a brayer
but you can use anything that you have on hand now I'm going to cut this down
into three pieces
this popping it with an edit for this video I made a smaller chunk of wood if
you wanted the larger piece of course you'd just be cutting off the flaps and
then you would just be gluing this inner piece here to how many other pieces that
you have chosen to use so the size is up to you 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 gonna 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 alright my friends
I'm just popping in with an edit to be sure that you do roll your piece before
you set it to dry I used a brayer like I said you can use
a rolling pin a jar if you don't have any of those thing of masking tape you
want to make sure that you roll over it the entire piece to ensure that you have
full contact inside there so when it's all dry you're not gonna see any
separate pieces they're gonna be totally glued together and that's what you want
you want to make one solid piece out of those pieces that you've glued together
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 set my big book on there and I'm gonna
leave that for about twenty to thirty minutes so I left that for about thirty
minutes and it's ready to be cut now a cutting mat with the lines is helpful if
you don't have a cutting mat don't worry you can measure out some lines so just
pick a measurement and then make with the measurements so I'm going to
use three inches here for the width and then I will choose let's see seven
inches for the length okay and then from that point I'll choose my three inches
again so three inches by seven and now I'm just going to cut from point to
point and that will give me straight edges all around
I think the thickness of that three pieces glued together it's pretty much
perfect for making these little miniatures on the 1/12 scale anyway I
think that's a great width right there you can make these little paper towel
holders or book shelves anything if you want a bit thinner like this piece here
I made with only two of those cereal boxes glued together and look at the
difference in the thickness and that's a good thickness too I think this turned
out just as great all right my friends now that you have your wooden pieces
made you can store them away until you need them or you can go ahead and start
getting creative now make yourself something fun for the dollhouse a little
bookshelf like I said I do have a tutorial here on YouTube for making this
little paper towel holder and that should be popping up on your screen you
can also use these in your journal books if you do make anything using this
method 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