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| Introduction |
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Although this technique was developed for 1/144th landscaping, it could be used for seedling plants or small window sill plants in bigger scales. Just use your imagination and have fun!
One thing very helpful is to place a small amount of landscaping material in the various compartments of those plastic boxes usually used for crafts. Choose the colours you would like and then you have everything at your fingertips. Purchase landscaping material from a miniature shop or a railroad shop. Choose landscaping which is quite fine.
The size of the bead will determine the size of the entire plant.
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| Supplies |
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-toothpicks
-landscaping material
-Nippers
-Quick Grab Glue (Aleene’s Quick Grab was used, but any THICK glue would work.
If you don’t want to make an extra purchase, then leave white glue out on a tile until
it thickens)
-Patience and imagination!
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Firmly place a bead on the end of a toothpick, jamming it down as far as it will go down.
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Dip the end of the toothpick, just up to the bead, into thickened glue. Be generous and leave a blob of glue at the end.
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Dip toothpick into green landscaping material of your choice, but only the end, just up to the top of the bead.
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Using your fingers, gently shape the plant, using your fingers. Set this aside to dry THOROGHLY.
Make several of these…it can be addictive!
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Make sure that your plant is completely dry before proceeding to this step.
Using a clean toothpick, dip into the glue and then put dots of glue all over the greenery on your toothpick
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| Step 6 |
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Dip the dotted plant into a colour of your choice - red, yellow, blue, purple…whatever you want.
Blow off any excess material.
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At this point, you can leave the bead as is, or if you wish, you can paint it using acrylic or plastic paint. You can apply this colour with a toothpick, as the bead is so small, or if you prefer, use a brush.
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Once you are happy with the final result, CAREFULLY nip the end of the toothpick, flush with the bead.
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Ta-Da! You’ve finished your plant. Different types of greenery and different colours of landscape will give you a large variety of different types of plants.
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| Step 10 |
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To make trees, simply eliminate the bead, and dip the toothpick as far into the glue as you want for the size of the trees. Experiment and you will see that as you use different types of materials, each tree will be unique.
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| Step 11 |
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You can plant the little pots directly into the garden and cover the pots with landscaping material, or leave the pots showing. Plant a whole garden for a floral showpiece!
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