More elfin houses . . . for this one I drew floorplans that fit inside a matchbox.
If you take a childlike pleasure in coloring, or if you happen to have an actual child who likes to color (and has excellent fine motor skills), I made tiny coloring pages so you can make your own matchbox house.
The exterior wraps around a standard matchbox. Interior is supposed to fit the inside tray but may need some judicious trimming. I used Sharpies for saturated color and generous amounts of glue stick (after failed attempts with other sticky substances) to adhere. Enjoy! And send me pix, please.
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margaret
you are amazing, you are.
these matchbox houses may be my grandaughter’s favorite Christmas presents!
HeART! Really amazing!
Amazing! Excellent coloring work. I love the upstairs, downstairs.
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That’s so cute. I love it. Would be great place to keep a tiny toy.
Help!!! coloured mine in then realised the inner room scenes are too big for a normal matchbox, the outer cover too small for a large matchbox. Should i resize the pdf, if so how? What am i doing wrong? i love this and wanted to make one by the way im 50 lol
thanks
Carol
Carol–thanks for pointing this out! I re-did the pdf so it should work. Something funky happened with the other pdf, methinks. Ignore the little floor and ceiling pattern in the middle of the coloring sheet–I was going to add a floor to the inside but decided it was too nutty, even for me. I’m in my forties, by the way, and as obsessed as ever with coloring tiny houses . . .
margaret
Thanks Margaret can’t wait to print it, shall try and post a picky when I’m done. Think these would make cute gifts with a pack of pens for all ages!
It’s done and much admired. I copied your colour scheme too as was too excited and eager to get going to make up my own. Was going to post a photo but couldn’t on here. Thanks for the new PDF!!
Carol, I’m so glad the new pdf worked!!! Yay!!
Beautiful and original… I loved and thinking about making my own miniature…
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Love love love this!!!!!!
aaaw this is soooo adorable and such a great and funny idea.
very lovely, thank you for the sharing and the great designs.
really awesome;-D
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Cute! What size are the boxes you use?
Thanks
Thanks, Kirsty! Matchboxes seem to come in different sizes. The ones I have currently are 2″ x .5″ x .5″ I did have to do some judicious trimming to make the interior fit. I must have drawn the design for a slightly larger variety of matchbox!
best,
Margaret
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Love your dollhouse! Thanks for the inspiration! http://wp.me/p1KmZi-Wj
This is adorable. You are so creative. Thank you for sharing.