Haunted Holtzville – First House of the Halloween Village Dwelling Series

Tim Holtz Village Dwelling Dies for Haunted Holtzville

Finally, I made one of the Haunted Holtzville houses based on the Village Dwelling dies from Sizzix and Tim Holtz. This one is the Tim Holtz Village Brownstone altered as a Halloween house. I am making a little village – Holtzville – really, Haunted Holtzville, with the Village dwelling dies. I am eagerly awaiting the Village Manor to complete the village.

You may recall the very first Halloween house I made with the Village Dwelling dies was this little paper house with the bat embossed roof on a spooky book as a base.

 

This Halloween Village Brownstone is second Village Dwelling house in the series for Haunted Holtzville. My plan was to unveil the entire village together but today’s challenge on the Wednesday Simon Says Stamp challenge is “Make for the Border” and since the fence functions as a border to this little house it fits perfectly with the challenge (in my mind, anyway) I decided to go ahead and post it.

Siding for the Village Dwelling House

Then I made rough sawn plank siding with the Tim Holtz torn notebook die and painted the pieces with black gesso covered with Picket Fence crackle paint. The edges of the planks were distressed with Black Soot distress paint.

Village Rooftops for Shingles

The roof is the Tim Holtz Village rooftop die that looks like wooden shakes. I love this die. I edged these shakes with some Picket Fence distress paint after painting them black with black gesso. It gives them a spookier dimension.

The fence – the border, rather – is the retired Tim Holtz On the Fence edge die, but sometimes still available online. It is made of 2 layers of cardboard glued together and distressed with Ground Espresso and Black Soot Distress Paint. Using a section of the fence I cut out 2 cross pieces to look make it look like a gate. I put 2 cardboard strips behind the gate section to make it stick out beyond the fence. I also drew in some nail holes just for a fun detail.

The base is just cardboard built up in layers so the ground looks uneven. I painted it with an ochre acrylic paint and distressed with Black Soot and Ground Espresso distress paints. The leaves are from Tim Holtz Sizzix punches along with a few other miscellaneous leaf punches. I made the pumpkins from sculpey, but now Tim Holtz has come out with some Idea-ology pumpkins that would be perfect here.

The tree is one of my standard trees in the background – the Tim Holtz Branch Tree which is retired, I think. You can still get it online though on Amazon or Ebay. You can substitute the Sizzix Bigz Bird Branch as a tree. I’m going to do that on one of the other houses. You can see an example of the branch as a tree on my Red, White, and Bluebird Clock house. I love the little owl from the Sizzix Halloween shadows die. I wish they would make the owl and what I call the “mouthy pumpkin” into a punch because I use them so much. My Halloween crafting would be simpler if they did.

Mostly this miniature paper house I used Tim Holtz products because I love them so much. And because the Halloween options are so incredible.

I hope you enjoyed the introduction this little house of the Haunted Holtzville series. More to come.