Craft Tips
Mike’s Easter/Spring Church
Mar
When we released the Village Church, from the White Christmas Bundle last Christmas, I knew I was going to be making this into a church ready for Easter or Spring.
I wanted to have some stained glass windows, so the first thing I did was create some stained glass printables that we are making available to you for FREE. This can be printed on your home color printer using printable vellum, and cut by hand.
After I made the stained glass, I realized I needed to open up the windows so you could see the pretty glass a little better. For the top windows, I simply erased the centers using Sure Cuts A Lot’s standard (square) eraser tool. I also used the eraser tool (circular option) to erase the centers of the circular windows. For the bottom windows I needed to do a little more altering so created a video that you can find below.
To give this piece a spring feel, I omitted the snowy base and created this floral print instead. This piece is too large to print and cut with a Cricut so I’d recommend hand cutting it.
Finally, I wanted to adorn the steeple with a cross so I created one using basic shapes and Sure Cuts A Lot’s shadow layer effect. I’ve included a tutorial for this as well!
Hope you all enjoy! Below you will find the links to the printables as well as the supplies I used. ~Mike
Village Church
- White Christmas SVG Bundle: https://3dsvg.com/shop/cards-svg-files/white-christmas-svg-bundle/
Printables
- Stained Glass Windows: https://3dsvg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Village_Church_Stained_Glass.zip
- Flower Border: https://3dsvg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Village_Church_Base_Flower_Panels.zip
Adobe Reader
- Adobe Reader: https://get.adobe.com/reader/
Tutorials
- Altering the windows: https://youtu.be/GmvDgfIH3lM
- Designing the cross: https://youtu.be/bguBKNC7Qk0
Sure Cuts A Lot
- Sure Cuts A Lot: https://www.svgtools.co/sure-cuts-a-lot-software-s/1822.htm
Paper
- Vellum: https://amzn.to/331CM4g
- AC Cardstock; Stone and White: http://www.12x12cardstock.shop/?p=H1MnZUR57
- Patterned Paper: DCWV The Chateau Lavender Stack
- Michaels Recollections White 65 lb. cardstock.
Printer
- HP Deskjet 4605: https://amzn.to/3sZn0kP
WOW! Very pretty, thank you
I told my husband I was going to make the church without he snow and there you go making me oh so happy. Thank you so much for all you do.
Thank you so much! I will enjoy thesse.
I absolutely adore the new Easter church with stained glass windows and the beautiful cross. It is a most needed piece for the village. The flowers are perfect. Thank you so much.
Thanks for doing all the work Mike! I saw the post and wondered what it was about-glad I did! Dreaming tree projects are so versatile! I never thought outside the box!
Thanks Mike, excellent work. I’m adding them to the Lantern Lane Houses x 3 file, so I don’t lose them!!
I just stumbled across this! Thank you so much for sharing your changes for the church!