It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time spent with family, cherry decorations to enjoy, and lots of baked goods to go around—what’s not to love (besides the cold weather, of course)? And, speaking of baked goods, I’ve got a brand new cut file creation that is a tribute to all of my fellow pâtisserie lovers out there. Look closely, and take in the little details: this Christmas village bakery has it all!
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I have been looking forward to adding to my Christmas village ever since I shared my toy store and church designs last year! I still have so many ideas for this collection in my head, but when I got the idea for a bakery, I loved it so much, that I knew it just had to be the next one I brought to life.
This project takes a fair amount of paper, and even more patience, so make yourself a nice cup of hot cocoa, put on your favorite Christmas movie, and let’s get crafting!
Supplies
- Cardstock
- Vellum
- Dura-Lar Film
- Hot Glue
- Bone Folder (optional)
- A Cutting Machine or X-ACTO knife
- Foam Tape (optional)
- My Free Template
How to Make It
1. Use your cutting machine or X-ACTO knife, along with my template, to cut out all of the Christmas village bakery pieces.
Note: If you are using the SVG files that includes the score lines, don’t forget to set them as such in Cricut Design Space and attach them to their shapes before sending through your cutting machine. I used a lime green color to mark the score lines, so hopefully that helps! If you’re having trouble with the score lines, check out this video.
Prepping & Layering
2. Start by layering all of your embellishment pieces onto your structural elements. This is also a good time to draw in your sign verbiage.
Attach the vellum to the interior of your window frames, and the Dura-Lar film to the inside of the display window piece.
Assembling the Main Structure
3. The first step in assembling the main structure is to form and attach the bakery display window.
Assemble a basket of baguettes, your cake, and the cupcake display stand.
Assemble your window display into a 5-sided box, and layer the baked good inside using hot glue and foam tape. Then, use the tabs to attach it to the inside of the front wall.
4. Use the tabs provided to attach your walls together like so.
After all the walls are in place, you can add your cute little bakers at the front door and side window.
5. Next, it’s time to work on the roof.
Start by assembling the three chimneys. Fold along the score lines, and glue the tabs to the interior. Layer the grey strips around the tops.
Fold the roof pieces along the score lines provided. Attach the two matching chimneys to the flat roof piece before attaching it to the main structure.
Then, attach both the flat and pitched roof pieces to their respective places.
6. Layer the grey roof piece on top of the pitched side, ensuring that the scalloped overhang is on the front. Then, attach the third chimney, gluing the tabs to the interior of the roof.
Fold and attach the stairs to the front, left side of the structure.
You can also add your large “bakery” sign and “hot cocoa” signs at this time as well.
Finishing Touches
7. Lastly, assemble the base by attaching the tabs provided to the inside of the main frame.
Then, add your wreaths, ribbons, extra baguette baskets, and bushes to the exterior of the bakery.
All that’s left to do now is admire your beautiful handiwork!
When sketching out this design, I wanted it to have a fair amount of whimsy, and felt like it should include a big display window for all the yummy treats. And, seeing it all put together, that window is definitely my favorite part!
I use Adobe Illustrator for all of my designs, and a Cricut Maker to bring my creations to life. For tips on creating fun paper cuts like this one, see the FAQ section on my website. Also, be sure to check out the other holiday freebies available on my blog!
Enjoy making your very own, Christmas village bakery! I hope you have as much fun putting it together as I did. Be sure to share your masterpiece with me on Instagram!
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Mandee is a professional graphic designer, amateur bird watcher, and rollercoaster enthusiast. She is a wife to hardworking high school teacher and mommy to three adorable little humans. She fell in love with graphic design when she started working on a comedy website with a guy she met her freshman year of college. Design wasn’t the only thing she fell in love with, and they were married a year and a half later. She created Designs By Miss Mandee to be a place where she could merge her passion for design with her lifelong love of crafting. 37 Comments on Christmas Village Bakery – 3D Cut File
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Kathy
December 8, 2020 at 7:10 am (3 years ago)Awesome! Your bake shop is over the top in cuteness. It looks like it came straight from the streets of Paris. So adorable, just like you. You are amazing! Thank you so much for creating and sharing your enchanting creation.
Mandee
December 8, 2020 at 11:45 am (3 years ago)Aww, thank you so much Kathy!! I’m so glad to hear that it has that quaint, cute look I was going for.
Mary ann Casey
December 8, 2020 at 7:10 am (3 years ago)Amazing! You do beautiful work.
Mandee
December 8, 2020 at 11:46 am (3 years ago)Thank you so much! ❤️
Catherine
December 8, 2020 at 7:14 am (3 years ago)Oh my, this is adorable!! Thank you so much!
Mandee
December 8, 2020 at 11:46 am (3 years ago)You are so welcome! Glad you like it. 😊
sandra
December 8, 2020 at 7:15 am (3 years ago)Oh this is so wonderful and lovely and stunning. How many more adjectives can I think of. Thank you so much for sharing your creative genius with us. Have a joyous and blessed holiday season.
Mandee
December 8, 2020 at 11:47 am (3 years ago)Those are some spectacular adjectives—I’ll take them! Wishing you a blessed holiday season as well. ❤️
Kathy Salazar
December 8, 2020 at 8:52 am (3 years ago)This is absolutely adorable, just like everything you create! Thank you for the inspiration!
Mandee
December 8, 2020 at 11:48 am (3 years ago)Thank you very much Kathy!!
Colleen
December 8, 2020 at 8:59 am (3 years ago)This is so detailed, you are a very talented person! I thank you so much for sharing all you Christmas Village creations with us. I am making them for my granddaughters to put in their bedroom, they love the two you made already and will love this one just as much if not more because it is a toy store after all 🙂 I have a Cricut and was wondering if anyone has made a larger size of any of the building of the Christmas Village you created? I was thinking of making some for our Church to put up by the altar for all to enjoy and then I would just add to them as you create and share them with us 🙂 Thank you again for this wonderful gift and have a blessed Christmas season.
Mandee
December 8, 2020 at 11:50 am (3 years ago)That’s wonderful Colleen! I’m glad you are enjoying these designs!!
I haven’t made any larger scale versions myself. You could scale any of them up slightly if you have larger paper, but would need to make some extra cuts and more tabs if you want to go larger than 12″ wide.
Have a Merry Christmas!!
maman-cocci
December 8, 2020 at 12:53 pm (3 years ago)toujours aussi magnifique. Je viens de faire l’église et le magasin de jouets …une maison de plus, quel joli cadeau tu nous fais. Merci !!!
Mandee
December 9, 2020 at 12:26 pm (3 years ago)That’s wonderful to hear! I’m so glad you have been making good use of my Christmas village designs!!
Veri
December 8, 2020 at 2:56 pm (3 years ago)Oh my gosh this is just so adorable! I’ve got a long list of christmas projects I’m planning to make, but this has gone straight to the top! Thank you so much for all that you do for us, we are very spoiled!
Mandee
December 9, 2020 at 12:27 pm (3 years ago)I’m happy to spoil you Veri! And glad that I can add to your growing list of wonderful Christmas crafts. Have fun!!
Maryanne Graham
December 8, 2020 at 7:38 pm (3 years ago)This is amazing, so much love and work in this and thank you for sharing.
Mandee
December 9, 2020 at 12:27 pm (3 years ago)Lots of love for sure! Glad you like it Maryanne!!
Ginette Legendre
December 8, 2020 at 9:47 pm (3 years ago)Thank you Mandee for sharing with us. I love it. It’s Awesome. Like all the others things you share with us is great, Thank you again
Mandee
December 9, 2020 at 12:28 pm (3 years ago)You are very welcome! Thank you for your kind words. ❤️
Tania Maria
December 9, 2020 at 9:11 am (3 years ago)Maravilhosa, voce é talentosa de mais. Feliz Natal. E muito obrigada por compartilhar essas lindezas
Mandee
December 9, 2020 at 12:28 pm (3 years ago)Aww, thank you so much Tania! Hope you have a Merry Christmas!!
Sarah
December 9, 2020 at 10:54 am (3 years ago)Oh this is gorgeous! Just curious though, why the pdf and svg pieces are different sizes? I don’t have the big cricut but like to cut the smaller pieces with my Cricut Joy. Somehow the svg pieces come out bigger than the pdf.
Mandee
December 9, 2020 at 12:32 pm (3 years ago)Hi Sarah,
The pieces are the same size in both the PDF and SVG files. The pdf is really just there for people who are interested in printing the design and cutting it out by hand.
I’ve never used a Cricut Joy myself, but What may be happening is that Design Space could be shrinking down the pieces in order to fit them properly on your material. I have had that happen to me once before.
Queenie
December 10, 2020 at 12:16 pm (3 years ago)Wahooooo , thank you very much from Belgium for this beautifull pattern
Mandee
December 11, 2020 at 11:02 am (3 years ago)You are most welcome! Enjoy making it. 🙂
auntie em
December 11, 2020 at 6:16 am (3 years ago)Your work is always so perfect and detailed. I could almost taste the icing on the cupcakes and smell the fresh baguettes but then when I saw the Hot Chocolate sign, I knew it was perfect! Love the little bakers peeking out and the beautiful signs. Thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous creations! 🙂
Mandee
December 11, 2020 at 11:04 am (3 years ago)Thank you! I had so much fun with all the tiny details!! I wanted to make a bakery that would definitely capture my own eye—walking down the street. 😊
Els Abraham
January 12, 2021 at 3:33 am (3 years ago)Hello! I’m Els from Belgium. I liked this project so much!!! The details, everything!
You are very talented, I could never design like you. Keep up the good work!
I had a great time and my friends give lots of likes and nice comments.
I took the freedom to use other patterns cardstock.
Love, Els
Mandee
January 13, 2021 at 10:57 am (3 years ago)Thank you so much Els! you are too kind. 😊
I’m so happy to hear that you enjoyed making this project!!
Virginia
September 18, 2022 at 11:09 pm (1 year ago)So cute! I just bought a Brothers cutting machine and want to make this and the other two buildings for my fireplace mantle. I was curious if you list anywhere the paper colors you used? Again, thank you for these cute buildings!
Mandee
September 21, 2022 at 9:39 am (1 year ago)Glad you like it! I usually try to use colors similar (or as close as I can get) to the colors used in the design file; which you should be able to see when you upload it to your cutting machine software. 🙂
Jeanie
November 17, 2022 at 9:19 pm (1 year ago)I absolutely love everything that you have designed. I love the Christmas village the most. I will be starting with the bakery, as I love to bake, especially at this time of year. Have a wonderful Holiday Season, and a blessed day.
Mandee
November 22, 2022 at 10:18 am (1 year ago)Thank you so much for your kind words! And have fun putting my bakery together!! 😊
Jeanie
November 18, 2022 at 8:21 am (1 year ago)Miss Mandee,
Could you please designate a color for vellum in your designs, like you have green for score lines? It can be hard to differentiate what is the vellum to be cut sometimes. Thank you for your time.
Sonia
November 19, 2023 at 6:02 pm (3 weeks ago)I really like the Christmas Village you’ve created, I’ve maked the Toy store and the Bakery. I gonna send you some pictures when it will be finished. I want to make all the village. 😀
Mandee
November 20, 2023 at 11:49 am (3 weeks ago)Yay! I love that you are enjoying these designs. They are really cute when you put them all together!!