These were made for an online  swap,each measure 2.5inches x 3inches.

First I took some photos of buildings that had nice stone/brickwork and windows. I printed the pics and cut each down to size.


Next I painted over the front of each pic with some acrylic wax to make them stronger, then when dry i folded over the top of each piece to create different roof shapes. I also scrumpled them up and then opened them out and sanded them, to distress them.



Next i layered 3 colours of sheer fabric over each house and stitched them together using straight and zig zag stitch.


I then cut the excess fabric off, and snipped in between the stitching to reveal the sheer underneath, I frayed all the edges.


Next I stitched on little pieces of grey card, on which I had doodled windows.



I then cut open the windows.


Finally I hand stitched a metal key onto each house. Some of the keys were black and were used as they were, others were silver and gold and to darken them I used alcohol inks.

 

Thankyou to everyone who sent me keys to use in this project. Barbara. and Denise.and Linda.x