It’s already October (oh how time flies!), which means Halloween is right around the corner! If you love creating your own holiday decorations, you’re going to LOVE this two-dimensional paper Halloween village.

All we needed to create this spooky village were a few shapes from our Cricut® collections, including our new Cricut® City Sidewalks digital collection. Yep—those houses with the white front doors are actually from a Christmas Cricut® collection! It’s amazing what a little creativity can create!

In addition to the houses, we used our Cricut® collections to create all sorts of fun details, like black cats and Jack-o’-lanterns…

…and Black Widow spiders, oh my!

To give the village an antiqued look, we sponged the edges of many pieces with ink, like these tombstones. This is also a great way to add dimension any time you’re working mainly with layers of paper.

We think this village would be adorable on a mantle or entry table, but there are all sorts of places you could display something like this! Be creative!

You can see the Cricut® shapes we used for our village below. Use them to create your own paper Halloween village or other decorations inspired by these shapes. Show us what you create on social media by using the hashtag #ctmhhalloween.

Have a spooktacular time crafting!  🙂

Recipe
B1484 My Acrylix® Jennifer’s Hand, Z3236 Black Glitter Paper, X5930 Slate Cardstock, 1385 White Daisy Cardstock, 1282 New England Ivy Cardstock, X5785 Lemon Cardstock, X5786 Tangerine Cardstock, X5779 Poppy Cardstock, X5784 Willow Cardstock, Z2173 Slate Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Z3271 Archival Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Z4009 Jeepers Creepers Assortment, Z697 Round Sponge, Z3167 Cricut® Artistry Collection, Z3169 Cricut® Artbooking Collection, Z4017 Cricut® City Sidewalks Digital Collection

Cricut® Shapes:
Artbooking
¾” Shift+Icon <I> (p. 55)
¾” Icon <i> (p. 55)
2″ Shift+Overlay <U> (p. 54)
1″ Shift+Icon <C> (p. 70)
½” Icon <c> (p. 70)
1″ Shift+Overlay <C> (p. 70)
¾” Shift+ Icon <V> (p. 71)
11 ½” Shift+Border <V> (p. 71)
2 ½” Border <v> (p. 71)
¾” and 1″ Icon <n> (p. 73)
¾” and 1″ Shift+Icon <N> (p. 73)

Artistry
7″ Icon-1 <w> (p. 12)
7″ Shift+Icon-1 <W> (p. 12)
1 ½” Shape <k> (p. 28)
1 ½” Shape <Mother> (p. 39)
1″ Shape <Holiday> (p. 47)

City Sidewalks
8″ Red House

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