Materials & tools required: Card - See below for further details PVA adhesive or tacky glue & double sided adhesive tape Craft knife & metal ruler (With finger guard) Small scissors Sharp pencil & long clear plastic ruler Permanent fibre tip pens: I used a dark grey, terracotta and dark brown. Household sponges / cosmetic sponges Paint brushes (Assorted sizes to suit scale) Choosing which type of card to use… The choice of which card you use for this simple technique really depends on both the scale that you are working in and also how textured or chunky you want your finished tiles to look. However, I would recommend the following: 1:12 & 1:16: 620gsm card, heavy weight water colour paper or cereal box card 1:24: 400gsm card, water colour paper, cereal box card or even old greeting cards. 1:48: 160gsm card, blotting paper, wallpaper lining paper. This unusual finish can be used on any flat tiles to completely change the overall look of a dolls house. The mottled finish was inspired by both a full scale timber frame cottage that I once saw, and also by the pictures in the story books that I avidly read as a child. So if you want your dolls house to have one foot in reality and one foot firmly in the fantasy world, this project is just for you! Take a piece of card and completely cover the reverse side with double sided tape. Next using either a craft knife or scissors, cut strips of card roughly as wide as the ‘length’ dimensions given on the note pad, see right. To create crooked tiles cut one long edge of the card strip straight and cut the other long edge with random gentle curves, see picture 1. Next, take a pair of scissors and snip vertically into the pre cut strip at varying angles, with each cut being approximately three quarters deep into the strip. Trim the edges of random tiles to create a rustic look, again see picture 1. Fantasy tiles... 1:24 Paint shades used: *Mucky Paint *Bea’s Brick *From Petite Properties’ Paint range By AIM Member, Bea Broadwood 1:24 STEP 1 PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT... PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT...PROJECT... 1:48 1:16 1:12 This project is suitable for ALL the scales shown above..! (Approximate) Individual tile sizes for different scales… 1:12 = 24mm x 16mm 1:16 = 18mm x 12mm 1:24 = 12mm x 8mm 1:48 = 6mm x 4mm (Length x width)