We get so many emails about this project that appeared in December 2010, so I thought now would be a great time to re-post it. This beautiful village was created for Ally Scraps by the very talented Linda Albrecht! Remember this was originally posted in 2010, so you may have to use papers that are available today. October Afternoon Holiday Style would be a great choice! I checked the link provided for the houses and could not find them, but if you google putz houses you will find many places that have the templates.
Linda says, "These little vintage style
houses are great on top of a box to use for holiday décor and gift giving. They
are also a fun size to use for an ornament for your tree. The house patterns can
be downloaded at the Victoria Magazine website. They take some time and a little
patience, but are worth it in the end. You could also buy pre-made paper mache
houses at a craft store."
Instructions:
1. Cut the
house pieces from chipboard and patterned papers as desired.
2. Trace and
cut out the square window shape onto the chipboard then cut out with an exacto
knife.
3. Trace the shape of the window onto the matching patterned paper
pieces that will be used for each house.
4. Cut the individual window panes
from the patterned paper then adhere the house pieces together with hot
glue.
5. Adhere the papers to the house, leaving the roof for the next
step.
6. Adhere papers to the roof pieces then place the roofs onto the
houses.
7. Fill in any cracks where the roofs and house meet with extra glue
and sprinkle on clear glitter to hide any imperfections.
8. The house
template pattern does not call for this, but I cut a piece of cardstock and
patterned paper as a base for each house to sit on. Adhere the base to the
house.
9. Adhere papers to boxes then adhere the houses to the top of the
boxes.
10. Apply adhesive to the houses and boxes then sprinkle with clear
glitter.
11. Apply additional adhesive to select areas to add Mica Flakes for
a snow effect.
12. Add decorative pins or silver beads to the house
peaks.
13. Apply white paint to the chipboard snowflakes, punch holes to add
to snowflake effect then adhere Mica Flakes and rhinestones to them as
desired.
14. Adhere the snowflakes to the back side of the houses and add any
additional embellishments to the box tops as desired.
15. Adhere Sticker
Shapes as shown. I pressed the sticky backside of the stickers into clear
glitter first, then glued them to the house backs and large chipboard
snowflakes.
16. Apply additional glitter and rhinestones to the sticker
fronts as desired.
17. Poke a slit in the door to add a mini brad for the
door handle.
18. Use hot glue to adhere silver pipe cleaners to the edge of
the boxes.
Supplies:
Echo Park Life
is Good,
The
Neighborhood
October Afternoon Very Merry,
Fill
the Stockings
October Afternoon Very Merry,
Trim
the Tree
Cosmo Cricket Jolly By Golly,
Merry
Berry
Webster’s Pages Waiting For Santa,
Wrapping
Paper
We R Memory Keepers Merry January,
Flake
We
R Memory Keepers Merry January,
Slush
We
R Memory Keepers Merry January,
Twig
October
Afternoon
Very
Merry Shape Stickers
Maya Road Chipboard
Snowflake
Coaster
Maya Road
Trinket Pins,
Crystals
Maya Road
Vintage Crochet
Trim- Baby Pom Pom
We R Memory Keepers Merry January Collection,
Flocked
Lace
Craft Supplies:
House templates downloaded from:
http://magazine-directory.com/Victoria.htm
glitter, Mica Flakes, bottle brush
trees, rhinestones, jingle bells, silver pipe cleaners, mini brads, plain
chipboard
Thanks so much Linda, for your gorgeous
work, and your detailed instructions
We thought it would be nice to revisit some of our more popular sketches from the blog. This is from December, 2010 by Debbie Gaydos. It was done with a Christmas layout in mind. Yeah, I know. Do we really want to think about Christmas now? I'm going to use this sketch for an autumn page. How about you?
