After months of missing the festivities, I’m super excited to be participating in December’s Silhouette Challenge, and even more excited to be part of a fantabulous giveaway with my fellow Silhouette wonder bloggers! So, lots going on in today’s post. I’m sharing my winter village display, and there’s 36 other Silhouette projects to ogle over, and THEN there’s 2 chances to win a Silhouette machine! Ready ready ready?
I’m admittedly a bit slow on my Christmas stuff this year. We just got a tree, but haven’t gotten around to decorating it yet. I made a paper chain, but then decided to go in a different direction with the decor. So this little winter village is the first real bit of Christmas that I’ve put together.
These 3D mini houses were the first things I bought from the Silhouette store when I first got my machine but I had been scared to try them until I got some basic projects under my belt. After all that anxiety, these houses were time-consuming but otherwise, not too terribly difficult.
I’m just glad I didn’t design them, ok? I mean, whoo, the design is absolutely amazing. The detail on the trees, and the buildings themselves. Definitely worth the buy, especially while on sale.
I opened all of the designs in Silhouette Studio, ungrouped all the different pieces, and fit the ones I wanted onto letter sized white cardstock. Just make sure that pieces belonging to the same structure are cut together – the church has a building, a steeple and a roof. Make sure you try different cut settings because the windows (masses and masses of them!) are incredibly frustrating to weed out if they aren’t cut cleanly.
Still, all worth it! Totally cute, and makes me miss the New England winter. For clarification, by “New England winter”, I don’t mean the snow, the slush, the ice, the numbing cold and the fact that it lasts 6 months. I mean the classy colonials and cape cod cottages with the fresh greens hung for the holidays, candles in the windows, small Americana villages, fairy forest walks with light fluffy snow perched delicately on branches, and enjoying it all from the comfort of your home sitting in front of a roaring wood fire with some hot apple cider from the local orchard. Get what I mean?
Can you tell I haven’t quite adjusted to California yet? Although, I did enjoy the 70 degree weather today, just sayin’.
Want to Check Out More Silhouette Projects?
My Silhouette Challenge buddies and I are all sharing projects holiday projects today, so hop around and enjoy!
1. Pineapples and Pinecones // 2. Simply Kelly Designs // 3. Architecture of a Mom // 4. Just a Girl and Her Blog // 5. Two Purple Couches // 6. Chicken Scratch NY // 7. Creative Ramblings // 8. One Dog Woof // 9. Ginger Snap Crafts // 10. The Thinking Closet // 11. Please Excuse My Craftermath… // 12. Designer Trapped in a Lawyer’s Body // 13. weekend craft // 14. Dragonfly & Lily Pads // 15. Practically Functional // 16. Living My Given Life // 17. My Paper Craze // 18. The Kim Six Fix // 19. Home At Eight // 20. Queen of Everything // 21. Tried & True // 22. Mama Sonshine // 23. unOriginal Mom // 24. Create it. Go! // 25. From Wine to Whine // 26. GetSilvered // 27. It’s Always Ruetten // 28. Nearly Handmade // 29. McCall Manor // 30. Silhouette School // 31. It Happens in a Blink // 32. Create & Babble // 33. Sowdering About // 34. Where The Smiles Have Been // 35. My Favorite Finds // 36. Lil’ Mrs. Tori // 37. Designed Decor
Silhouette Giveaway!
And as awesome as my display is, I’ve saved the best for last. In partnership with Silhouette America, the Silhouette Challenge participants are hosting a mega-huge giveaway for not one…but two winners! The prizes up for grabs?
First prize: The NEW Silhouette Cameo Machine and Designer Edition Super Bundle! $406.93 value.
- Silhouette CAMEO®
- Designer Edition Software
- Dust Cover
- $25 Download Card
- Four Essential Silhouette Tools (hook, spatula, scraper, pick-me-up™)
Second prize: Silhouette Portrait Machine and Rhinestone Starter Kit! $219.98 value.
Pretty sweet, right? We want you to have the chance to get that Silhouette machine that might still be on your wish list.
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Oh WOW! Those are gorgeous!
That is a seriously intricate design! But it turned out beautifully. Thanks for sharing.
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These are beautiful, what a great decoration. Now I’m going to have to find the design so I can make some myself! 🙂
Pretty. I love those silvery trees!
These are seriously awesome! One thing I love about using the Silhouette is how impressive even the simplest designs or materials can look when they are finished. These are great!
I just love how you’ve put your display together – with the logs, the silver trees and the pine cones, your whole village scene looks absolutely stunning.
Thank you so much Pam! I’m usually really bad with vignettes, so your comments means a ton to me!
Thank you Carrie!
Thanks Carolyn!
Oh shoot, I didn’t link it! I’ll fix that now, thanks for letting me know!
It was really intricate, but definitely was easier than I thought to put together.
Thank you so much!
I just discovered your beautiful blog from a link from One Crafty Chica. I signed up for email posts. So happy I found your wonderfully designed blog!
This turned out beautifully, ChiWei…but I think the icing on the cake is how well you styled it. Having some up high on the wood blocks plus the added silver trees and pine cones…it just makes it such a romantic Christmas scene. Well done, my dear! Thanks so much for joining in on the December Silhouette Challenge and Giveaway, and adding so much creativity into the mix.
It’s amazing all the things that a Silhouette can do!
These houses are gorgeous, ChiWwi! Love the white theme 🙂
Thanks Helen!
I know, seriously!
Thanks Lauren! I wouldn’t want to live up in the house on the wood block though, since I’d have to plow all that road 🙂 So happy to join in on the fun this month, and thank you for organizing it!
Thank you so much!
I am seriously in love with these, ChiWei! I just added the village shapes to my Silhouette Wishlist! The designs look great, but I second what Lauren said, your styling just makes them look so perfectly cozy!!
Hello Chiwei, What a beautiful job you did in making and setting up Tea Light Village”. I am the designer behind the project. Thank you for this wonderful blog post about it. I want your readers to know that the files are available from the Silhouette Store but also from my site – 3dcuts.com. (http://www.3dcuts.com/store/) I sell the entire village as a group for only $4.99 on 3dcuts.com. They come in svg, dfx, and pdf format. People with cutting machines other than the Silhouette can use these files on their machine. Silhouette people that have Design Studio can also use these as long as they are comfortable with the svg import. But everyone should know that I have in-depth tutorials on how to assemble all the files here: http://www.3dcuts.com/tutorials/. These are complicated cut files but the machine takes care of that. They are very easy to put together and a great introduction into 3d paper craft. My tutorials are lengthy and full of photos. So come on over and ale a look! Happy crafting everyone.
Thanks Marji! Your village is so beautiful and detailed. I found the flaps for glueing to be pretty self explanatory but did need help with the steeple. Great design!
Hello Chewei, What a beautiful blog and what a gorgeous job you did on my Tea light village. You should know that tea light village is designed by me – Marji Roy of 3dcuts.com. The village has updates – there was an update in 2015 that included the Saltbox and Gambrel roof houses and a rose arbour, and an update in 2106 that included the Gazebo, Dormer House and Meeting hall. The entire set is available at my website in one download for $8.59. That is much cheaper than buying all the individual files through the SIL store. It is available in SVG,PDF, png and dxf formats so folks with many other cutting machines can create it as well. Co here for the files http://3dcuts.com/tea-light-village/tea-light-village-complete-2016 and here for a complete set of tutorials – http://3dcuts.com/tea-light-village-dormer-house. The updates are also available separately.
I wish these were in SVG format to cut them on a cricut machine. I love these, they are beautiful
I made this village, probably around 20 years ago, give or take a year and they are JUST now getting tired looking! I’m so excited to find this website and the plans. I plan on reviving the houses that I have and making some new ones (the Church fell completely apart this year) and then I am going to make my sisters and my mother, villages because they have always loved my village and I think it would make a great gift! These were SO much fun to make, I remember. They are so much more portable and storable than the porcelain village houses that you can buy everwhere and so unique. I highly recommend these, if you are crafty and enjoy this kind of thing. One question I have, does anyone know what weight chipboard to use? I don’t remember and it doesn’t say it here. Thanks
Lovely Thanks for sharing.
Awesome 🙂
I made the small house and it looked nothing like the picture. My roof was sideways so I could not attach the top window. I had no attachments for the door or the Christmas wreath on the door. Very disappointing.
I would say this is an amazing 3d sketch I will surely try it
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Another awesome art I’ve seen on internet and I think it took a lot of effort to build up this card board house
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