Dollar Store Challenge

Pretty in Pink

This was a challenge from one of the groups on FB (a group where we all gather to share our love of dolls) The object of this challenge was to purchase items from the dollar store and create some stuff or come up with a thing, concept, diorama (or whatever) from dollar store purchases. There was no particular amount you had to spend and you could use stuff you already had as well. This was my entry.

Featuring a few of my repaints and two lovely ladies by  Mr Jon Copeland. The little ones were also repainted by me .


My Dollar store finds.

I spent about $25 at two different dollar stores. I used about $7 dollars in the construction of this diorama. I used dollar store (med/ hard) foam board to make the wall unit, and the base of the floor. I purchased craft paper (single sheets ) at the $ store and use it for the wall paper backing on the wall unit. The flooring is two tiles of flooring that I already had from Home depot with a $ store piece of textured paper on top if it. The wall hanging is a printed picture on $ store paper as well as the art on the shelves. The art on the shelves has a backing of foam board from $ store. The sofa (which I already had) is carefully covered with a small sized child's tee shirt from the rack in the $ store (nothing is attached permanent to my beautiful sofa, I used push pins which can be removed. The dog on the shelf of the bookcase (white one, was purchased in the $ store and spray painted white ($store spray paint) The lamps were beaded bracelets (2) from the $ store strung on wire with foam board and a paper shade glued to it.

 Books (long row) on the shelf were made from $ store craft foam. I used pages from a magazine and glued it to the foam. Then I folded and cut my books to size (glued them together). The other books (Barbie) were made for me by my friend Muff (as well as the other books
 Fifty Shades of Grey)  The coffee table is made using the same med/ hard foam board and aluminum foil wrapped around the edges ($ store foil) The legs of the table are aa batteries wrapped in foil. 

The end tables are made using those metal thingys ($ store find) and thick rounds of foam used in floral decorations (another $ store purchase). Pics on the table are printed from my computer and one is actually my hubby and I lol (stuck to med/ foam board)

 All other stuff is stuff I had already. Oh yeah, I purchased some of that sculpty clay from Michaels on sale for $1.29 and attempted to make the table goodies and the art deco on the shelves. LOL. That was my first time using that stuff and I actually had a ball with it I will continue to practice with that clay! Thanks to my friend  Stephanie Thompson for your instructions on how to use it. The rest of my $ store purchases will probably show up in future dioramas. Hope you enjoyed the pics as much as I did making this and putting it all together! Thanks for looking ♥

Chynadoll Creations 2013