Christmas Village

FRONT VIEW
BACK VIEW

I have a new respect for designers.  I knew when I started this project that I wanted to make a set of houses for a Christmas village and that I wanted my new Silhouette Cameo, with its large cutting area, to cut it out.  I just assumed I could find a quick free file and embellish it to make it work.  It was not as simple as that.  I found several ideas I liked, but unfortunately the ones I liked best had no templates, none of the templates I could find were perfect, and none of them were easy to alter.So I simply made these from scratch (or not so simply).  I designed the following in Silhouette Studio:  the houses, roofs, shingles, stairs, window boxes, chimneys, windows, and trees.  The snowman, picket fence, mailbox, and lamp post are not my design.

I gave this village to Heartland Paper as a design-team project.  The display and template printouts are at the store, and here are the Silhouette cutting files I made.  The download includes Studio cutting files for use with a Silhouette machine, PDF files that can be printed and cut by hand, and a supply list.  I made these all in 8.5″x11″ format so all Silhouette machines will cut the files.  (You’ll lose a tiny bit of the glue flaps on the tall house, but nothing essential.)Here are more photographs of the different pieces:

TREES
HOUSE 1
TALL HOUSE
HOUSE 2
SNOWMAN
MAILBOX, COMPLETE WITH LETTERS TO SANTA
LAMP POST TO HEARTLAND VILLAGE
SIDE VIEW

TOP VIEW

Supplies for what you see in this display (this list is included in the download):
Textured Cardstock: Red (Burlap Barkley), Green (Crisscross Grasshopper), Green (Crisscross Limeade), White (Bazzill White). 2-8.5×11” for tall house, 1-12×12” or 2-8.5×11” for each smaller house. 2-12×12 white for roofs, chimneys, window backs, etc.
Pattern Paper: “Queen & Co.” Christmas (5-6 pages)
Rick Rack: Lime, Red (approx. 1 yd. for each roof)
Buttons: Doodlebug Limeade
Stickles Glitter Glue, Crystal
Brads, rhinestones for doorknobs & snowman (various)
Wooden skewer, toothpick
Styrofoam balls, 1 ½” (2 for each snowman)
Glue gun for buttons
Aleene’s Tacky Glue

Optional:
Foam core board for base, cut down to 20”x15”
Village Snow Roll, a.k.a. Buffalo Snow
Ultra-fine glitter

Template for houses and trees created by Krafting Kelly (me!)

Silhouette files used:

Other cutting files used: “Banner_day-33” (lamp post) by Lettering Delights, “PDC Picket fence with gate” by PDC

I will soon post a tutorial for assembling these pieces (see link below), so come back if you can’t figure it out on your own!

One last thing.  I spent a lot of time on these, so if you download the files please become a follower and leave me a comment.  If you make something with these templates I’d love to see it.  If you want to share these, please send your friends to my blog so they can download it directly from me.  Thank you!

Here’s the link to the video tutorials.

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