Recycling with Sonia Suprabha Venugopal! :)

My guest today is the fabulous Dr Sonia Suprabha Venugopal of Cards, Craft and Kids Projects. She makes the most awesome projects from found objects around the house. She has amazing green ideas which she so generously shares in tutorials on her blog! I love her attention to details as well as her fun ideas for crafting with kids! Today she shares how to make a beautiful dollhouse! She's also hosting a fantastic challenge with a really special prize for the lucky winner! :)

Let's check out some of Sonia's fave projects....

Doll House Making

Hi friends! I am so honoured and terribly flattered to be featured here on Yvonne's blog. I love recycling and am fascinated by Yvonne's blog because of this common passion we share! We also have another common factor we feature regularly on our blogs--kids!
I made this doll house with my 5 year old daughter who loves to craft with me.We decorated our doll house with handmade punchcraft flowers and some quilling .

Doll House Making

How to recycle a Box into a House

You can recycle any box into a doll house! At the top part of your box draw a horizontal line and drop a vertical from its center to reach the roof as shown. Draw sloping lines from the sides to meet the top center and you have made the shape of your doll house

Doll House Making

Use a knife or scissors to cut down from the top corner to meet the horizontal line as shown.Bend the flap  inwards at the line earlier drawn as shown to make the front of your doll house

Doll House Making

Do the same cutting and folding for the other 3 top corners of your box and you will have 4 triangular flaps as shown

Doll House Making

Bend the side wall at the level of the horizontal line and fold down the rectangular shaped flap as shown

Doll House Making

Stick the side wall flaps to the triangular flaps from the front and back of the house and the basic frame work of your doll house is ready.

Doll House Making

Make a roof by bending some cardboard over your doll house or measure out 2 roof pieces and glue them   over the doll house

Doll House Making

Our roof has 2 pieces of corrugated card glued down in the middle with pattern paper. We added some homemade fabric bows and punchcraft flowers on our doll house roof.

Doll House Making

These houses are quick and easy to make and I wanted to make a whole city of houses as a special project for Yvonne but due to a recent burns adventure I had to settle for only one doll house.

Doll House Making

I am so excited Yvonne let me choose a challenge theme for you to play along-- I felt there is nothing better than Recycling!!!

Do link up any project which involves recycling-- the more you recycle the better it is!!

As the prize for the challenge instead of crafty stuff which may not be universally appealing,I thought I will feature the winner on my blog: Cards Crafts and Kids Projects .I have never featured anyone at my blog before but realized that in blog land guest blogging is such a wonderful act of goodwill and friendship and I should continue the cycle !Thank You so much Yvonne!
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Ready to recycle something found in your home? Please link your newly created project that features something recycled via Inlinkz [located at the end of the post] by Friday May 4. No backlinks please.

As always, please leave a little love for my guest Sonia.