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What is a Putz House? And How do You Make one?

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×Be sure to Pin to your Favorite Pinterest Board!This fun Christmas wreath is made with the 12 Christmas houses from the 12 Houses for Christmas challenge. It's a great set of patterns for learning how to make Putz Houses.What is a Putz house? The name for Putz houses evolved from the German word "putzen" which means to clean or to decorate. And the name was acquired by little houses that were placed around the nativity scene for Christmas decorations in the early 1900s. Yes, these adorable little houses have been around for about 100 years. Designs and materials have varied dramatically over time. Below are reproductions of vintage Putz houses by Howard Lamey who posts on the Cardboard Christmas Forums. More about that incredible website later.You may also see them called glitter houses or little cardboard houses or even paper houses.Putz church one of my guests made at my little house making Christmas partyWould you like to see more inspiration and instructions on making Putz or paper houses?This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to read my full disclosure policy.Pick out a pattern for the little house that you want to makeCut out the pattern - by hand or with the help of an electronic cutting machine like a Cricut or a SilhouetteConstruct the house elements and the house &nbsp;- windows, bay windows, towers, shingles, doors, etc.Decorate the house - painting, glitter or other decorMake the base for your little houseGlue your house to the baseComplete the house with scenery - trees, fences, floral elements, more glitter - the fun stuffNext, here is a comprehensive list of the tutorials on my blog, but after that I've listed the best places on the web to read about making little houses. As I find new information, I will update this post so you will have a list of the best information on where to learn how to make Putz houses.Tools you needHow to make a patternFree patterns on my blogHow to make various bases for your housesFinally, some of the different texture effects I use on the glitter housesWhere to find more information on making Putz housesI made a list of the 8 Essential Tools that you need to make your own paper house. I wrote it as a blog post as well as a list available free on the&nbsp;Paper Glitter Glue library. Just sign up for the newsletter and you will get instant access to the library and can download the list as well as all of the patterns and tutorials below.In addition, I've got a list of My Favorite Supplies to making little houses here to help you.Below are a number of patterns that you can find on my blog. There are at least 30 patterns for making little houses in the Paper Glitter Glue library. Just subscribe with the form below and you will get access to all of the free patterns.It is the only course I know of that specifically helps you make 3-D patterns which you can save as PDFs or SVGs. It is expensive, yes, but it helped me immensely. I wrote a blog post about taking the course here.Jennifer's Halloween Putz house made with the above printable patternSometimes you need to make a steeple to fit a specific tower or roof on your little house. You'll find instructions in the post listed below.Stone Stencil Clock House with large steepled tower in centerChristmas Farmhouse in StoneHere is another one of the everyone's favorite house - the Irish Stone Cottage.Irish Stone CottageThe Red Roof Holiday Cottage is a fun house to make for the Holiday season.Here is a cool Halloween houses - the2019 &nbsp;Habitat Halloween House. It can easily be modified for Christmas with brighter colors and less distressing.This is one of my favorite patterns called the Stone House with 3 Gables. There are both printable PDF patterns and SVG patterns for this house.Here's a Frosty version of the Stone House with 3 Gables.12 free Christmas Putz house patterns in the Paper Glitter Glue library13 Halloween Houses - Free Patterns for you to make cool little Halloween HousesNote: All of these houses have SVG and PDF patterns.Make your own adorable Halloween village with these 13 printable patternsThe pattern to make this little Putz house is available in the Paper Glitter Glue library for free, of course. It's under the name of Faded Mansion. There are both PDF and SVG patterns for this house.Abandoned Italianate Mansion Glitter House with lights shiningI made the Faded Mansion so you could decorate the house for any season.The Faded Mansion Cardboard House with Christmas decorThere are several variations of the Tree Stump House. The first one is a Flower Top Fairy Tree Stump house. You can read about how I made it as a guest post on Jennifer Maker's blog. But you can find the pattern in my library under Fairy Tree Stump Houses. There is also an Oak Leaf roof variation of this same pattern.For the 13 days of Halloween challenge I made a simple tree stump house with fall leaves on the roof. That one is fun to make.Oak leafy top tree stump houseHere is one of the first tree stump houses I made for Easter.Easter house on a tree stump baseAnd one my all time favorite houses that I made years ago - the Black Hat Inn.There are a number of ways to light up your little house. The most common way is through a light bulb in the hole in the back of the house. That's the traditional way for making Putz houses light up. But even in the 1930s people started cutting holes in the bottom of the houses so they could insert the bulb underneath. That's the way I make most of my houses with a hole in the base for lighting. However, I almost always include the hole in the back for tradition's sake.Back view of Jennifer's Halloween Putz House showing the branch tree, ghost and graveyardFaded Mansion cardboard house on a plain cardboard base dressed up for Fall with fall-colored bottle brush trees, leaves and pumpkinsAbandoned Italianate Mansion Glitter House shining with LED lightsDIY a back door for your putz house lightsYou don't always have to make a traditional base for your little houses. There are lots of options for making bases for Putz houses. One thing I love to do is make a book base for the house. And you can do a lot with ribbon rolls as well to make Tree Stumps as the base of the house or as a pedestal to put the house on.Halloween house on a book base. This house is called the Old Book HouseGus the Ghost comes home to his little cardboard house with a book baseYou can also make stairs into the cardboard base for your little putz house. Here are a few examples of this kind of base.Bat Wing Halloween Houses - The Count Awaits and the Count's KeepOne of my very favorite ways to make a roof for a Putz house (particularly Halloween houses) is with metallic tape and alcohol ink to add a rusted patina to the roof.Angled view of the Sea-Worn Beach house with the Rusted RoofFront view of the house with the rusted tin roofView of the metal roof on the Halloween houseAlthough these are not traditional techniques for Putz houses, you can make lots of different textures on your houses - bricks, stones, slate, or peeling crackled wood.With texture paste and a stone stencil make stone siding for your little houseCompleted painting the stone texture on the Greystone Halloween HouseWant to make crackle paint for your miniature houses? This article shows you how to make your own crackle paint to decorate Putz houses or other paper crafts.This house is the Sea Shack - you can read about making the miniature Sea Shack with the easy crackle paint siding here.See the lovely tiny crackled siding on the Village Manor houseEach piece of crackle siding was inked individually to give the multicolored effect of Gus' houseMany of the websites listed below are more traditional in the decor of the little houses with wonderful instructions. You will find them informative and seriously inspirational.Howard Lamey is an incredibly generous builder of Putz houses meaning that he shares his patterns and knowledge freely. His website is&nbsp;littleglitterhouses.com where you find instructions on how to make them. It’s not regularly updated, but the basics are incredible. When you go to Pinterest and search for Putz houses or glitter houses – you’ll see that many are made are by Howard or from one of his patterns.The Cardboard Christmas forums are an absolute wealth of information for making putz houses. Paul Race generously hosts this site to share his love of Putz houses. And as a bonus, one of the original members is Howard Lamey who posts regularly and shares his knowledge and patterns there as well. You do not have to be a member to read ALL the posts there and to get access to all the patterns. You have to sign up if you want to be a member and ask questions or reply to posts. There is a nominal cost of $1/month which was initiated to prevent fake sign-ups. It is well worth it.Here is an example of one of Howard's houses in the Ten Cent City Series on the Cardboard Christmas forum.An additional website associated with the Cardboard Christmas Forums is the Papa Ted's Place where the incredible history of the little houses is preserved. Paul Race hosts both of these sites which is a real gift to the putz-makers of the world. Thank Paul for saving this site.Rhonda of Christmas Notebook makes lovely glitter houses. She has many tutorials on her website demonstrating steps in making the houses. &nbsp;As of this writing, she regularly updates her website. She is very active making lots of beautiful Putz houses that she sells to raise funds for charity.I stumbled upon Cassie Stephen’s blog by accident. She is an art teacher in Nashville, TN so the projects are beautifully artistic as you would expect. I am including her website because in one little party, she demonstrates the simplicity and appeal of making the little houses.Little house made at Cassie Stephens little house partyI have a private Facebook group that you can join to ask questions and post photos about making your paper houses. Here is the link to Paper Houses and Paper Crafts Hosted by Paper Glitter Glue.Another group you can join is the Glitter and Putz Houses which I am a member of. Actually I inherited the administrator's position for this Facebook Group as well.That's about it for now. I will keep this post updated so you can always find new information from my website here. I hope you find this information helpful in your putz house building journey. Let me know if you have any other sources you like to go to. Or let me know if you have any questions, I will be glad to answer them (assuming I know the answer, of course). LucyHow to make a putz house or a glitter house« Make a Miniature Book for Apothecary Halloween HouseApothecary Halloween House - Weber and Judd's Potions Shop »Be sure to Pin to your Favorite Pinterest Board!Thank you for so much information. I have joined the Facebook groups and look forward to learning more about making houses.ReplyHow do I download the patterns????? I just get page after page of computer coding.ReplyI'm Lucy - the crafter behind Paper Glitter Glue. I just love to make things - mostly from paper or cardboard. I hope to inspire you to make fun stuff too. So look around and find something to MAKE. You can read more about me&nbsp;here.You are welcome to link to PaperGlitterGlue.com or use a single image with a brief description and a link back to any post. Do not republish any post. That's not allowed. But I do like it when you share my photos to Pinterest.Amazon Associates DisclosureLucy Foxworth of PaperGlitterGlue.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. So as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you.

×Be sure to Pin to your Favorite Pinterest Board!This fun Christmas wreath is made with the 12 Christmas houses from the 12 Houses for Christmas challenge. It's a great set of patterns for learning how to make Putz Houses.What is a Putz house? The name for Putz houses evolved from the German word "putzen" which means to clean or to decorate. And the name was acquired by little houses that were placed around the nativity scene for Christmas decorations in the early 1900s. Yes, these adorable little houses have been around for about 100 years. Designs and materials have varied dramatically...

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