Spring Village

Hi friends! I hope you are all well. After a rainy and cold week, we had great weather today and my walk was a real joy. Today, I have a fun 3-D tutorial to share with you.

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During winter I made a winter village with Tim Holtz Paper Village die set and I thought it was time to do a spring or summer version. I used only two houses this time, to leave more space for a little flower garden. The base is a wood disc, which was meant to be a coaster, but which instead became a perfect base for a project.

Die cut houses from heavystock paper and roofs from kraft-stock paper.

Ink the red house with Candied Apple.

Ink the grey house with Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke. For a wood effect, I stamped the houses with the Simon Says Stamp Wood Planks stamp, using slightly darker inks. 

Fold the houses along the score lines.

For the windows I used pieces of acetate, colored with Latte alcohol ink.

Assemble the houses and glue on the roofs.

I also glued cheese cloth / mummy cloth curtains on the inside of the windows. 

I wanted a tree and picked the toadstool with the thickest stem from Tim's Funky Toadstools set, so that it would have more stability. Die cut it five times from heavystock and five times from neutral kraft-stock paper.

Glue the pieces together. I glued three together and two together. Ink with green Distress Inks.

Glue the two green pieces together and add one trunk piece on each side.

Mix Rustic Wilderness and Twisted Citron paint into texture paste. Don't mix the colors completely. Apply to the base with a palette knife. Press the tree, flowers and houses into the paste. I added the red house later, since I didn't want the red ink to bleed into the paste. The Heirloom Roses were inked with alcohol ink.

I like how the ink colored them partially, making the white look porcelain-like. 

When the paste was basically dry, I added the red house, with the door slightly ajar.

I few Clippings Stickers finished the houses.

And a Mini Flair Button.

The grey house is meant to look like old weathered, unpainted wood planks. 

Although this is a toadstool, it works like a tree too. For another project using this die set, check out my Mushroom Forest tag.

From the back the little village looks like this.

The winter version also uses a wood disc as a base. You can find the Winter Village Tutorial here.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by here today! I will see you again tomorrow.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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