Christmas Village

Hello everyone! I have a Christmas village project to share with you today. It's part of the October blog challenge at Kaisercraft. The challenge is to create something using the following moodboard as your inspiration.

Immediately I thought of a winter village. I have several of the Tim Holtz village dies and soon began creating with them.

I found a traceable template on the internet to create the sleigh and the packages. They use papers from the Mint Wishes collection. The reindeers are created using a die.

To create your own reindeer, fold a piece of kraft cardstock in half and place your reindeer die over it lining up the head (don't worry about the antlers) to be just below the met which cuts the die. Run this through your machine and it should fold open. Cut your die as it was internded using your patterned paper. Glue your die cut onto your kraft base and decorate. Your reindeer should be able to stand up on its own.

Supplies:

Kaisercraft Products: PP10279 Mint Wishes Paper Pad |CD110 Mocha | Glitter Cardstock GC110 Lagoon and GC104 Crystal | PT229 Ice Blue Glitter Tape | Pearls SB794 Snow, SB784 Ice Green and SB792 Chocolate 

Other: Tim Holtz Village Dwelling and Village Winter, White Felt, Vellum, Stickles Dry Fine Glitter Diamond, Glossy Accents, Vellum, Felt Glue, Tim Holtz Woodlands, Distress Spray Stain Evergreen Bough, Precious Marieke Spirited Reindeer, Tiny Box Template, Santa Sleigh Template, Twigs from my garden.

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Tim Holtz Village Bungalow

Hello everyone! I am taking a break from writing my school reports to share a quick post. I have a second Tim Holtz dwelling to share with you which is the Village Bungalow. I am loving these miniatures and at the moment, they are on display in my classroom (in a clear plastic container out of reach from curious fingers).

I used papers from Kaisercraft Basecoat Collection to create the bungalow. As the paper is thin, I die cut the pieces using thick cardstock and then adhered the papers on top. I distressed the edges using Ground espresso distress ink.

The roof was created using one of the die cuts from the village roof top dies and also papers from the Kaisercraft paperpad. The foliage and potted plants (in front of the front door) was purchased from Riot Craft.

Supplies:

Paper: Kaisercraft Base Coat Paperpad and Game On Collection P1494:MVP (base)

Ink: Ground Espresso distress ink

Dies: Tim Holtz Village Dwelling, Village Bungalow and Village Rooftops

Other: JTT Scenery assorted potted flower plants 2, Wee Scraps wore foliage trees, Tim Holtz mini fasteners

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Rustic Cabin - Tim Holtz Village Dwelling

Hello everyone! Today I have a new project to share with you. I have been madly pinning all of the wonderful Village Dwelling creations on Pinterest as I am a huge fan! Before the holidays, I placed an order for the dies so that I would have time during the school holidays to make some of these wonderful structures. I have named this one Rustic Cabin due to the weathered papers that I used to decorate. Kaisercraft released a collection called Base Coat and it was perfect as way of decorating. It took me a while to get the hang of manipulating everything but be warned...lots of sticky inky fingers result from making these so have baby wipes handy LOL!

To create the roof, I had some silver corrugated cardstock in my stash which was perfect for the roof.

While the front and back panels are flat, I cut rectangular pieces of vellum to place behind the windows so that when you place a battery operated tealight candle inside, you are able to attain that warm flickering glow!

Supplies:

Die: Tim Holtz Village Dwelling Die

Paper: Kaisercraft Base Coat Paper Pad and Game On Collection P1494 :MVP (Base)
           Bella! Silver Grey Corrugated Vintage Cardstock, Clear Vellum

Ink: Distress Ink Black Soot and Ground Espresso

Glue: Helmar Tacky Craft Glue, Scotch Quick Dry, Xron 2.5" create a sticker

Other: Tim Holtz Mini Fasteners

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