hi everyone and welcome back to my channel where the gnomes live this is
Sharon aOjala and today we're gonna be making some shingles for a roof
I used cardboard to put these together I'm also going to show you how I paint
them how I attach them of course before we get to the supplies list if you're
interested in these tiny mushrooms that I've planted on top of the roof I just
released a video for these as well and that Lake should be popping up on your
screen and will also be in the description box below all right guys
let's quickly go over what I use to make those shingles and I'll talk about the
cardboard at the end because there's other options that you can be using for
cardboard okay so I use scissors xacto knife a couple different sized brushes a
straight edge ruler a cutting mat tacky glue also comes in handy to have hot
glue but it's not necessary to put the roof together the colors that I used on
the roof they're all regular craft paint that I got in a dollar store black
golden brown and burnt umber and this was totally unplanned I ended up using a
water-based satin interior varathane you don't have to do the same thing I
did like the results and it made the colors pop all right let's talk about
the shingles now I made these from cardboard like I said and I just used a
regular cardboard box but an Amazon order came in one of these here when you
cut into boxes like that you'll see open edges like this and you'll want to fill
those in because you will see one edge of that cardboard once these are stacked
so I have to use a wood filler to fill that in if you don't want to be messing
around with that wood filler there's other options for shingles you can use
foam board you can find that in Walmart or any dollar store you can also use
chipboard and I happen to have a tutorial on how to make this out of
cereal boxes here on the YouTube channel if you use a chipboard I would make it
about 4mm uh 4 millimeters thick or you could just use regular
cardboard from the cereal box like I did on this roof here this roof I put
together a couple years ago when I showed it on my Facebook page and a
number of you wanted to know how I got this color and I'm gonna be showing that
here in this video at the end of the video you'll also see me decorating the
roof with some mushrooms this is a video tutorial here
on my youtube channel and I also used some moss that I found in the dollar
store alright my friends let's get started this is a room that I just built
with foil and then my fake bark over top and it needs a roof so I'm going to
attach this first because you can see it's quite uneven I can't just put
shingles on top of this and there's big dips here so I'm going to glue this in
place first and that will solve my uneven problem and then I can just glue
my shingles on top I'm going to be using hot glue to put this piece in now I
always say never use hot glue is your only source of glue to hold your piece
together because eventually the temperature changes and that could just
let go I don't mind using hot glue here because when I'm all done my shingles
I'm going to be putting moss in around the edges with tacky glue so that will
be holding this in permanently once I get my moss and everything attached
alright that cardboards in place and I'm just going to give a black wash over it
this is actually watered down black paint I have water in here and this part
isn't totally necessary you don't have to paint it black I do it because I
don't want to have to worry about seeing cardboard underneath my shingles later
on or have to worry about covering up any cardboard color later on so I find
this is just a quick easy step to do it saves time later on so next we're going
to be cutting some shingles and I cut strips like this out of a regular
cardboard box so once I cut all my cardboard pieces then I cut them down
into strips like this and you'll notice that all of my strips the lines in the
cardboard are going the same way so I want to put my shingles on I'm going to
be cutting these when I'm ready to put them on and I want all those lines to be
going in the same direction so I want to square up my piece first so I can get
some strips out of it so this use my cutting mat to help me do that first
so I got square edges now you can do any width that you want to do I'm going to
choose three squares so it just makes it easier for me instead of having to
measure it all out I'm just going to go by the squares one two three so there's
all my strips now the bottom of the shingles are going to be seen I'm not
worried about the sides or the top of the shingles but the very bottom see
when these get stacked like this you're gonna see this part here so I'm going to
fill that in just one side of the strip each of them with wood filler and then
let it dry before I cut them into shingles and for this part I don't I'm
not going for exact measurements I will do approximately the same size for one
strip and so the next strip I'll do a little bit more narrow or on a variety
of different sizes you can do it one of two ways you can hot glue them in place
and then use tacky glue along the top or you can just put tacky glue I found when
I was just using tacky glue some of them would slide before I would even know
what was going on and they'd be totally wrong for cooking a little bit more
wonky than I like so I decided to start using hot glue and tacky glue together
and it kind of sped up the process and of course I'm going to use the plain
side on top Ollie's when you use these boxes some of the more hop writing
okay now I have that first row in so what I do is just run a bead of glue
along the top and those shingles won't be going anywhere
so I made it to the top and the top of mine here is going to have moss here I'm
gonna be covering this with most I also have a bird's nest coming I'm gonna be
covering in the sides here with moss if you come to the picture booth you
probably want to make a long strip like this and put it straight across the top
to finish it off and that would finish it off nicely I don't need one for my
room and you can see none of my shingles are really even I kind of staggered them
and made them looked uneven on purpose so now I'm going to do a black wash on
top of this before I paint it again you don't have to do it that way I like
doing the black wash because you can get an aged look you can also get a grainy
look without having to do too much work and again my paint is watered down I
have water in here and it doesn't really matter how much you use when I do a
black wash usually I'm mixing 5050 so before I get painting I forgot to tell
you if you have glue strands so to use hot glue like I did then you'll have
little spider web-like strands you can easily get rid of those with a hairdryer
just pop on your hairdryer and just go over it just once or twice and those
strands will disappear and I did end up using a smaller brush to get in little
nooks and crannies and actually have forgotten you will end up with little
spots where you'll see where the black paint didn't get into and you'll have to
work at a little bit harder you could paint these strips before you cut them
in the shingles and that would make it a lot easier to just like I did that that
black wash on that base piece of cardboard I could have done the same
thing with these shingles before I cut them and I'm doing another coat of color
right now anyway so I'm not too concerned about that so I'm going to put
on my golden brown just get the excess off now as painting I'm always pulling
the brush in the same direction so from top to bottom and I go very quickly I
don't stay in one spot and I just keep going around till it's all covered in
and you can see I left a lot of that black there I want that there that adds
to the aged look so I'm gonna leave this for about a half an hour I'm going to
set a fan on it once that's completely dry I'm also
going to be adding another dry brush and I'll probably do a burnt umber or maybe
some more black and just pull that very lightly across the top but we'll do that
together on film I'll just let it dry but I think it's looking pretty cool
already it's exactly the look that I was going for I get some burnt umber here
and some black and I'm going to be a very very light dry brush so I'm gonna
get all the excess off that brush and just pull it through it's hard for you
to see it on film but I can see streaks coming in that I'm really liking what
I'm seeing so once it's dry I'll show you a close-up again just very very
lightly and keeping that brush moving and never staying in the same spot
okay so I want this roof to look a little bit wet so I'm going to add a
clear coat and see if that will give me the look that I want I haven't done this
before so we're going to do it for the first
time together I left it dry overnight the clear coat dried very shiny so I
toned it down a little bit with another dry brush using black very very lightly
and then a little bit more that golden brown and I'm very happy with the color
today
I hope you can see the color that I can see in person that roof actually looks
beautiful and I think that clear coat that I put on there like I said that was
the first time I ever used that clear coat really helped that color pop when I
put the dry brush on because I did add a dry brush with the golden brown and some
black after that clear coat was dry and I think it just turned out beautiful so
I'll definitely be using that same technique again when I build another
roof alright so the mushrooms ended up I just pushed those in and most emeritus
held in that way I did use some hot glue or is it on this little bunch here I
just dropped in some hot glue right through here and then I shoved moss down
just to kind of keep them in a clump like that you can use tacky glue as well
anyway guys that brings us to the end of this video I hope you enjoyed it I hope
you got some ideas for building yourself your own roof maybe some mushrooms for
it too if you do make a roof like this 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