Making a Tim Holtz Paper Village

I'm making some Tim Holtz Paper Village houses, including a comparison of the Paper Village houses to the original Tim Holtz Bigz Dwelling and Bigz Townhouse.

There are three house pieces, three roof pieces, and a bunch of door and window accessory dies. The packaging shows five houses to display the range of accessories. Select your accessory pieces to place inside the house die as you cut out the paper pieces.

If you want to use thin patterned paper, cut one set of house pieces from cardstock and one set from patterned paper. Cut the tabs off the patterned paper set and attach to the cardstock set before assembly. This is the time to add any inking, paint, or other details - while the pieces are flat!

The door pieces are partial-cut, so they will open if you use a single layer of cardstock. The doors are cut on three sides, leaving a paper hinge.

Cut two of each side of the house. Join at one side, then hold upright and flat on your work surface to join on the other side. This will keep the house level. Attach the roof last, pressing the tabs from inside for good adhesion. Use a high-grab adhesive for building, such as double-sided tape or hot glue. (The buildings from Paper Village are very small, so your hot glue gun would need a very fine tip.) The little porch roof has no tabs, so just run a bead of white glue along one edge and attach over the door, leaving the house flat on its back while that dries.

I used Paper Village in the video, but the sets are similar. Paper Village #2 includes a pointed roof for the townhouse, a chimney, and windows that partial-cut so they open.

Sizzix Paper Village by Tim Holtz #664741

$24.99 at Sizzix / $14.10 from Sizzix on Amazon https://amzn.to/45YV9UO

Sizzix Paper Village #2 by Tim Holtz #665585

$24.99 at Sizzix / $18.38 on Amazon https://amzn.to/3Qr8v6l

Older Sizzix products are usually less from the Sizzix storefront on Amazon than from the Sizzix website, but they do offer a new email signup coupon for 15%.

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