Winter Church Tutorial

Hi friends! I hope you enjoyed your weekend! We went to a children's theater play, made a gingerbread house and some more Christmassy things. Today, it is Monday again and a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, Holly Jolly stamping. 

I made a winter church and was so into my project that I totally forgot to add any stamping at all. As children, we had a church which played music, and it was one of my favourite ornaments. I don't know what happened to it, but this church is inspired by my memory of that church. Tim Holtz Village Dwelling die was used for the base of the church, and the Bell Tower die turned it into a church. This is such a clever concept by Tim and I hope there will be even more dies to go with the basic house in the future. I did a fun technique for the texture of my church, and took some step photos. For another example, using the Village Dwelling, check out my Autumn Village Dwelling tutorial.

Start by die cutting the pieces that you need. I used mainly packaging from a Tim Holtz paper pad, which I find to be just thick enough. You could also glue white paper to a thicker cardstock. I adhered silver Deco Sheets on some of the pieces. The thin pillar pieces in the middle were die cut from mat board.

I wanted textured walls, similar to how I remembered the old church ornament. To get the rough texture I was looking for, I mixed about equal parts Rock Candy distress glitter and UTEE into Texture Paste. You want the paste to become thick and gritty. It was smeared on the walls and I really liked the effect. I avoided getting it on the flaps, by masking them with masking tape.

I changed my mind and die cut the roof from kraft-core cardstock instead, gluing it to the chipboard. It was embossed and sanded. The windows and door were die cut from the same cardstock. I love how the arch windows instantly turns the building into a church.

I love to use mica for windows and glued pieces of mica to the inside of the houses. You can also colour acetate with alcohol ink.

The house is easy to assemble. I used a hot glue gun (be careful!), but you can also try other adhesives. When I was done, I thought it wasn't quite wintery enough.

To give it more of a winter feeling, I dry-brushed the roof with Picket Fence paint and then added Texture Paste. I also used the paste on joints. It was sprinkled with Rock Candy glitter to make it look like snow.

I wanted a small pot plant and borrowed my own idea from my Autumn House. The pot was quilled and I used Simon Says Stamp Partial Cut Flowers to die cut Poinsettia shaped flowers. Cut the last part with a pair of scissors. The flower were sanded and shaped a little.

After rolling up two strips of quilling paper and shaping it into a pot, I placed some glue inside. I added some scrap paper to the bottom of the pot and glued my Poinsettia inside.

I added a pool of Glossy Accents to the flower and some Prima beads. It was glued to the base and some more paste smeared around it.

Here you can see the front of the church a little better. The door got a pearl handle.

 

I also added paste to the porch, making it look like the door had pushed the snow out of the way.

In the tower there is a bell, with some white paint on as snow, hanging from a wire. You must place it into the tower before adhering the pieces together.

 I also added some paste right on top of the tower.

 I liked the combination of the textured roof, gritty wall texture and more glittery snow areas.

The beams and porch were painted black.

The side of the church.

Because I added the gritty paste on the windows too, some of it shows through also after I glued on the arched frames. It looks like snow having collected on the windows.

This is the back of the church. I love that the Village Dwelling has windows on all sides of the house.

I wish you could see the gritty texture of the church a little better. It was hard to photograph, it is both gritty, but also a little glittery, although not at all as much as the snow.

The church isn't glued to the base, so you place an electric tea candle inside and it looks beautiful as the light flicker through the windows.

I hope you will join us in our Holly Jolly challenge. As always you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

 

If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

If you use instagram add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads, so that we can see them on there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Sizzix VILLAGE DWELLING	Tim Holtz Sizzix VILLAGE BELL TOWER Bigz	Tim Holtz Sizzix DOT MATRIX & GRIDLOCK	Tim Holtz Idea-ology DECO SHEETS	Tim Holtz Core'dinations KRAFT CORE NOSTALGIC
Tim Holtz Core'dinations KRAFT CORE CLASSIC 6 x 6	Ranger TEXTURE PASTE	Tim Holtz Dry Glitter ROCK CANDY	Ranger Ultra Thick Embossing Powder CLEAR	Tim Holtz Distress Paint PICKET FENCE
Tim Holtz Distress Paint BLACK SOOT	Prima PLUM Art Ingredients Glass Beads	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix CUTTING PAD XL Pair
Tim Holtz SANDING GRIP	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL	Sizzix SUSAN'S GARDEN TOOL KIT	Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE

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