Fairy Cottage

I’m so excited, it is our first project together. Your going to love making this cute fairy cottage. SVG Cuts does an amazing job designing these paper houses..

This fairy cottage was created for a special birthday girl. I specifically choose the paper colors and theme with her in mind. I had a lot fun putting this together and hopefully you will too. The finished size is approximately 12" wide x 12" length x 12" tall.

Here is the supply list (of course you can change the color and theme to fit your style).

1. SVG files: Fairy Cottage at SVG Cuts http://www.svgcuts.com
2. Paper (all paper is from bazzill fourz stock with the exception of vellum and graphics 45) www.acherryontop.com for bazzill card stock and www.scrapbook.com for Graphic 45 paper. Once you start cutting the papers, you will easily recognize the names of each cut.

• Vellum (one 8.5” x 11” piece)
• Cinnamon Stick: wood panels; wood 1, 2, 3; base 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; stump panel liner; and roof 1, 2 (12 sheets)
• London Fog: stair treads (1 sheet)
• Raven: trim, chimney panels, door, house (3 sheets)
• Red Rock: window roof trim, roof (2 sheets)
• Truffle: roof panels 1 and 2, window roof panel (2 sheets)
• Graphic 45 Love Notes Collection-lovely lyrics: House 1, stoop panels, turret panels, panel side,, panel back, trim, roof panels (4 sheets)

3. Embossing Folders:

• Waffle cone: that roof panels
• Wood grain: Tim Holts by Sizzix wood panels and steps

4. Embellishments:

• Distressed inks: walnut stain (all brown areas) and barn door (red areas)
• Twigs
• Pumpkins
• Mushrooms (my garden friends available at www.hobbylobby.com)
• Moss
• Bird
• Butterflies
• Baker's twine
• tree stump
• Poly-fil (in the sewing/fabric section of your craft store)
• paper flowers (black and pink)
• String of mini lights (I bought this set at Hobby Lobby, but you can get these on Amazon too)

5. Most important, a die cutting machine like Cricut, Silhouette, Sizzix Eclipz, Brother Scanncut, etc.

6. Adhesive: Scotch tacky glue (to glue the pieces together) and tombow adhesive runner (glue the vellum on the windows).

Now that you got all your supplies, you can now create. Cut your pieces as shown on the Fairy Cottage Menu provided by SVG Cuts when you purchased the files. Go to the SVG Cuts link on supplies list #1 and watch the tutorial on how to put the project together.

Before gluing the panel pieces to this house, I embossed the thatched roof with a diamond shaped embossing pattern and the wood panels around the bottom including the stair treads with a wood grain embossing patter. Then applied distressed ink to these pieces to give it extra dimension. It also looks pretty cool. Here is a picture before I added all my embellishments.

                        

Now for the finale. Decorate the assembled fairy cottage. You can decorate it however you please. But I decorated the fairy cottage with moss, mini pumpkins, mini pine cones, fun mushrooms, a miniature dog, tree stump, twigs, baker's twine, paper flowers, a bird, and butterflies. (All these items can be found in the miniature garden section or the doll house area at Hobby Lobby. Oh yes, and don't forget poly-fil for the smoke coming out of the chimney. You can even rub some black ink on it to give it that smoky color. 

Below are photographs of all sides of the finished project. I didn't really decorate the backside too much since it will not really be seen.

           

                    

I am so excited to see your finished project. Please post them in the comment section of this blog so I oh and awe at them. 

Well we made it through our first project together. I had such a good time. Join me for the next project, a toucan happy birthday greeting card. Hopefully, I can post that by next week.

Ta ta for now,

Christie (aka Bubbalina)