A Tea Light Village from the UK

Wendy Lawson just shared photos of her Tea Light Village. It was her lockdown project during the Covid lockdown.

She used a ladder to help with the display. I love seeing solutions that allow the village to be displayed vertically. This is a United Kingdom Village. I am looking for more countries around the globe! How far can it travel?

Another Tea Light Village

I love the little variations! Carol Barlow from Australia choose to take the great and bow from my ZigZag Village file and add it to her Tea Light Village. That along with the accented trees make this display unique.

A the file continues you travel around the world!

  • Tea Light Village files can be downloaded here.

  • Zig Zag Village is here.

Ledge Village Chapel Shadow Box

I knew there were endless possibilities to explore when combining the buildings of Ledge Village with shadow boxes. Raeann Thorpe posted her beautiful design over on the Facebook group Free SVG Files, Fonts and Ideas for Cricut and Silhouette. She used the chapel and trees from Ledge Village and combined it with lots of other great items in her craft stash.

Have you done anything creative with Ledge Village buildings? Please share photos with me by emailing to marj@3dcuts.com

Cutting files are here:https://3dcuts.com/ledge-village/ledge-village-group-1

Chapel assembly tutorial is here: https://3dcuts.com/tutorial-ledge-village-chapel

Tea Light Village by Ana Moreno

Ana Moreno of Spain recently shared this photo of her Tea Light Village display. I am always amazed at how far these files have traveled. I see dipoles from many countries around the globe.

Ledge Village Grows!

I have been playing with Ledge Village again. Ledge Village contains some of my earliest designs. It is comprised of a number of buildings, all under 1” thick designed to fit on the tiny ledges around your home.  When I started designing it back in 2013 I didn’t know about Fairy lights. Now I do. And I wanted to add fairy lights to a ledge village display.  But I couldn’t stop there. So I designed three new buildings as well. Take a look and the new offerings/ideas for Ledge Village.

First of all I made a smaller grouping on a crown moulding ledge. This one has five buildings - from left to right Tudor Manor, Tower House v2 both new in 2020, the Chapel, Store 2, and Dormer House all from earlier collections. I combined them with the new Lamp Posts (2020) and a mixture of trees. And then I added lights!

  • Get the cutting files here.

  • Find assembly tutorials here.

  • View a tutorial for lighting suggestions here.

Here is the new Tudor Manor. I highlighted the half-timber construction common in this type of house.


Here is the Tower House v2.  I made some engineering changes to Tower House 1. The tower is now octagonal not round and it is on the left.

I also developed the lamp post with a hollow core for lights to be inserted.

 
 

There are many interesting and creative ways to display Ledge Village Buildings. Have you thought about a shadow box? I just finished Christmas Eve which is available here. It includes the third new house- Porch House.

Ledge Village in Christmas Eve Shadow Box by Marji Roy of 3DCuts.com, 3D cutting files in .svg, .dxf, and .pdf formats for use with Silhouette, Cricut and other cutting machines, paper crafting files

Ledge Village in Christmas Eve Shadow Box by Marji Roy of 3DCuts.com, 3D cutting files in .svg, .dxf, and .pdf formats for use with Silhouette, Cricut and other cutting machines, paper crafting files


A Christmas Triptych

I have continued designing stacked shadow boxes for each of the holidays. I am working on a complete year. This week I put up the cutting files for the Christmas Triptych - three elegant designs featuring classic Christmas themes.

Each design uses gold cardstock as a connecting theme.

  • The cutting files can be downloaded here.

  • The Tutorials can be viewed here.

Zig Zag Village as a shadow box!

I am especially excited when someone takes a truly creative approach to one of my files. Barbara Peters recently shared with me a few photos of her newest experimentation of the Quick Zig Zag Village files of mine.

Barbar shared some of her assembly techniques. “ I reduced the file by 25%, and it cut easily.  I added vellum to the windows, and used a tree from one of the tea light village files to add dimension to the end trees.

I resized a 5 x 7 shadow box frame from Lori Whitlock and used a digital background paper, which I altered a bit and added stars and moon. I also added trees from the tea light village . Unfortunately, I do not know who the designer of the paper is. I used three tabs attached to the back of the village to hold it in place. I found a strand of ten fairy lights, which I taped to the inside bottom of the frame (finding short strands of fairy lights was the hardest part!).” She plans to make a few more and give them as Christmas gifts.

I love it!