Make a Paper Christmas Village & Houses with this free pattern and SVG cut file for the Cricut! #christmas #papercraft #cricut #luminary

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Dress up a mantle or a tablescape with this simple yet sweet paper Christmas village and houses. Add in a few LED tea lights and it will glow with warmth and open doors!


When I was a kid, when of my favorite parts of the holidays were getting out our decorations and putting them up. It was the ’70s, so we had lots of posterboard decorations. Today those simple paper-based decorations have a special place in my heart. Which is why I designed this paper Christmas village for my mantle. It’s easy but so charming! It’s not as elaborate as my DIY Paper Village: Craft Cottage I designed last year, but that’s why I like it so much!

This little paper Christmas village is very special because each of the doors on the buildings OPEN! That’s right.. you can just swing them right open and then your village has open doors for everyone. And each set of doors has a warm and welcoming glow within it.

Much gratitude to many readers who requested this Christmas village (Claudette, Brigitte T., Jacquelynn, Suzanne O., and Kalla). Each person who contributed this project idea will receive an extra entry for your idea (I am keeping track on this on my end). And don’t forget, you can suggest project ideas for this Challenge here and receive entries to win one of our awesome prizes, including a Cricut Maker!

Key concepts taught in the video tutorial include how to scrape a mat clean, how to put vellum or wax paper on the back of a project, and how to fix a mistake.

See exactly how to make my Paper Christmas Village & Houses in this tutorial video below:

Tip: If you’re in the mood to make more paper houses, my friend Lucy is making a little paper house a day for the holidays and sharing them on HER blog! Her little 3D houses make great ornaments for your tree or combine them all together to create a adorable paper house village! You can get the free patterns for 12 little Christmas houses at paperglitterglue.com.

Christmas putz houses form a paper Christmas village with designs from PaperGlitterGlue.com

Let’s make a paper Christmas village together! This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience (which means if you make a purchase after clicking a link I will earn a small commission but it won’t cost you a penny more)! Read my full disclosure policy.

Materials for the Paper Christmas Village & Houses

How to make a paper winter village with simple cardstock

How to Make a Paper Christmas Village

First, download my paper village design (Design #119) from my free resource library (you can get a password for it at the bottom of this page). If you’re going to cut the paper out on your cutting machine, upload the file to your design software. If you’re not sure how to upload an SVG cut file to Cricut Design Space, watch this helpful video training series I made. If you’re on an iPhone or iPad, here’s how to download and upload SVG files to the Cricut Design Space app.

Important Note: The score lines are built in! Instead of cut lines you have to convert into score lines in Cricut Design Space (like many other projects I do), I made dashed lines and pre-attached them. They are already in place and ready to go. Just upload the design and click Make It. Super easy!

Check back later for more instructions and photos, or watch the video linked above!

Get my free SVG cut files and patterns for the Paper Christmas Village

If you make this sweet little paper Christmas village, please share a photo in our Facebook group, email it to me at [email protected], or tag me on social media with #makershowandtell.

See all of the projects, tutorials and free designs in The Great Maker Show and Tell Challenge! There is one for each day of the 25 Days of Christmas! This is my gift to you for the tremendous support, enthusiasm, and love you’ve shown to me and my little blog over the past two years. To “open” a gift, hover over the day’s image and click the download icon.

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Love,

JenniferMaker.com

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Make a Paper Christmas Village & Houses with this free pattern and SVG cut file for the Cricut! #christmas #papercraft #cricut #luminary #svgcutfile

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9 Comments

  1. I’be been eating to make something just like this!! Thank you so much for the tutorial. I can’t wait to try it!

  2. Great project, the only problem I ran into was the machine shredded the windows in the top of the building to the right of the tree. Not sure if spacing can be changed on this to have more space between window panes?

  3. Hello. I’m a new Cricut Maker user. I love the village. Had a bit of trouble as each building came out separately. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

    1. Hi there! So, you will have one set of buildings cut out separately, these are your vellum parts that go behind your other layer that is cut and scored. If you still have trouble, please reach out to my amazing team at [email protected] with any photos and other details that will help them troubleshoot!

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