Snowy Hill Town Diorama

Good Monday morning.  I have a diorama project to share with you today made using the Impression Obsession Hill Town, Fir Trees and Fir Tree Border. 

I was first introduced to diorama card making back in 2008 as a Splitcoaststampers Technique Lovers Challenge.  You can find the tutorial on SCS here.   I couldn’t resist sharing a picture of it.  It was not as easy to create a dimensional scene back then as we had no clue about dies. We did have punches for simple things like squares, circles, etc.

If you wanted to create something like my project  you stamped your images, colored and cut out with either snips or a craft knife. When I first pulled up this blog post to look for this project I grimaced remembering cutting out all of those individual fence posts with a craft knife so the water could be seen through them.  LOL!  We’ve come a long, long way in paper crafting since then.

The dimensions of my project are different than the tutorial linked above.  The front and back layers are 8” x 5” and were scored at 1.5” on each end. The inner layer is 6.50” x 5” and was scored at .75” on each end.  I wanted the card to be taller and I wanted the layers to closer together. I did follow the basic tutorial steps of assembling the card.

I cut the opening in both layers.  The inner layer opening is cut slightly smaller than the front layer.  I cut and colored the little town houses.  I attached them to the back of the inner layer opening and attached a white layer of snow on the front of the opening. I added a layer offir tree border and ground snow on the front below the row of houses and attached it with mounting tape to appear standing out in front of the houses. I attached a couple layers of trees to the back of the houses.

I cut a white snowy mountain and attached fir trees to the back of it.  I attached the mountain and trees to the back layer of the card with mounting tape to add depth and dimension. Here’s a closer view.

I finished by adding a snowy ground layer to the front of the card and attached a few random fir trees for the final finishing touch. I really love how this turned out.  It took quite a bit of time but was worth it.

I appreciate you coming by and I hope you have a great day.

Paper:  Papertrey Pattern Pack, White, Olive     Accessories:  Impression Obsession Hill Town, Fir Trees, Fir Tree Border, Spellbinders Large Labels, Copic Markers, Deckle Scissors, Glue Dots, Mounting Tape, Metal Adapter Plate, ATG, Big Shot,  Teflon Bone Folder , Guillotine Paper Cutter