Draculaura's Coffin Bed

Tonight I promised my daughter I would make her a coffin bed for Draculaura. I made it from foam board hot glue, felt and fabric.
I placed Draculaura on the foam board and put dots on each side of her feet and did the same for her head. I put dots near each side of her shoulders then measured out an each on each side and placed another dot. Then connected the dots. I cut 2 out one for the base and one the lid. I then cut 2 pieces of foamboard 2.5" wide and 12" long. I then lined up the 2.5" piece to the base and bent the foam at the widest point. Then I hot glued it on. I then repeated this on the other side.
I just measured the 2 open sides and cut the foamboard to fit. I then covered the whole thing with scrapbook paper. For the inside I used pink duck tape. I cut some felt then covered it with fabric. I duct taped it on you could glue it too I was just trying to hurry.. I covered the lid with paper on the top. I attached a piece of duck tape 7.5" long to the lid leaving about half hanging off. I then held the lid in an open position like in the picture and then attached the other half into the coffin. I then attached more paper to cover the tape. And voilà! A bed for your monster. I still want to put feet on it but I don't have anything handy that will work. So to be continued...

Monster high house base completed

It took about $28 total to create this house. $25 in foamboard at the dollar store, 2 packages of glue sticks and packing tape.- all from the dollar store. This literally took 10 hours to complete. The house has 19 rooms and is 52"h x 75"L. I will continue to post as I complete each room. Tonight I tried to put electrical tape around the edges of each room but it didn't stay very well. I'm thinking of trying black duct tape. We shall see.

3 layers later....

So about 6 hours invested and 15 foam board pieces later I have 14 rooms. Because this project is SO big I have to just give my daughter furniture for her Christmas surprise but she is so excited about it!! TFL

Monster High House Base

Okay. So about 5 sheets of foam-board later the base is created. I think I should go a little taller than 12 inches on the next 3 levels. I used hot glue to keel it together but i applied packing tape to the edges and everywhere it joins for extra support.
I'm shooting to be done with the whole thing by Sunday so I can start decorating the rooms on Monday. This is going to be so much fun.

Monster High Dollhouse with foamboard

Okay so I will admit when my daughter first began her monster high obsession I was less than happy. She has a lot of me in her and when she gets obsessed with something we have to have everything. Kinda like my Tim Holtz Distress line obsession.
So now we are about 2 years, hundred of dollars, and 23 dolls later . So I see all if these dolls she plays with every day and they have no place to really go. So we started buying the beds and the coffin bean cafe and other play sets. Well we still have the "what am I going to do with ALL of these gorgeous monsters??
So I think A DOLLHOUSE! duh. But then I start looking online. A couple hundred more dollars for one that only has 5 rooms. Well you can't cram 6 dolls in each room and we have 3 play sets.
I start googling. Well I'm not a fan of really any of the prices. So I came up with the idea of making her one instead. Well the cost of the wood alone is going to be about $125 for a 48"h x 72"l x 15" deep. I know huge right??
So I made her a small room out of dollar store foam board to see if she liked it. Nothing fancy just some contact paper on the walls, Darice craft fur for the rug and the coffin bean cafe set up inside partially.
She loved it. And the cat sat on the top of it and it still stood. It took one piece of foamboard for this room so to me that's about as cheap as you get!!
I will post the rooms as I create them. TFL!!
-Kate