Birdhouse Challenge & Paper Crafting 101: Tutorial Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Today is my turn to host the 3D Tuesday Challenge over on Paper Craft Planet.  Despite the snow, I'm ready for Spring, so I decided we'd make birdhouses!

The challenge is to create a birdhouse using any template you'd like. The one I used is attached below-- just print on the backside of your colored paper, set your printer to letter size. (I've been told that this prints really small -- so up the scale on it so that you get the size you want!) I didn't include a roof on the template -- it's just a rectangle cut to 4" x 2.75". Score at 2".

View this template

Here are some other templates I found on the web --

• DLTK Birdhouse
• Craft Ideas for Kids Birdhouse
• Lauren Meader's "little house"
• Nichole Heady's birdhouse

Tag your photo with the keyword "3d2". Upload this into our Paper Craft Planet Photo Gallery and I'll pull them into our album.

Check out the challenge gallery

Now, onto Tutorial Tuesday, Crafting 101 -- where the best artists in the Blogosphere share with you the basics of rubber stamping, paper crafting and scrapbooking. We'll even teach you how to use that Photoshop program you have sitting under your desk right now! All this for the bargain price of FREE! Read on...

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Comments

[Jen Tapler]

You are seriously amazing!

[LollyChops]

Thanks for featuring my project!!! HUGZ!!!!

[Laura Pinto-Nguyen]

Wowzers!!! Thank you so much for sharing this fabulous information with all of us. It is super useful.

[Mari]

Hey Susannah! I've written my very first tutorial! Would you come take a look? Pretty please? :D

Thanks!

[dorAMiYi]

Hello,

New to your blog and so far love it. Actually, new to paper crafting in general too. Love how you consolidate tips and tutorial to one place. I'll definitely be visiting more.

Thanks for doing what you do.

doramiyi
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[The 6 O'Clock Stitch]

I love the bird house! Feel free to share this tutorial at Make & Tell Monday! Here's the link to this week's post.

http://the6oclockstitch.blogspot.com/2009/03/etsy-deals-and-craft-tutorial-party.html

Hope you'll jump in every week!