INSTRUCTIONS:
House
- Transfer house and chimney pattern to board of choice.
- Cut one house and chimney with craft knife or scissors. Cut openings of windows.
- Remove protective paper from one side of adhesive. Cover one side of house and chimney with adhesive. Once the house and chimney are covered, do not pull protective paper from the second side of adhesive. If using double sided tape, do not overlap adhesive edges.
- Trim excess adhesive from all edges of house, window openings and chimney.
- Turn house, adhesive side up, on work surface.
- Peel back protective paper along bottom edge of house to expose approximately 1" of adhesive.
 - Place white bias tape over adhesive, aligning the folded edge of tape with the bottom edge of house. Allow the tape to extend beyond sides of house approximately 1/4". This is the first row of "siding".
- For next row of siding, lay a second row of bias tape onto adhesive, even with and slightly overlapping the first row.
- Continue to peel back protective paper from adhesive and apply bias tape to house until you have covered entire building (including windows) to the roof (see Illustration 1).
- Cover entire roof with gray bias tape using same technique as house.
- Turn house over, wrong side up, and trim all excess bias tape from house edges, window openings and roof lines with craft knife or scissors (see Illustration 2). Turn house over to right side.
 - Cut two strips of white bias tape the length of the side of house, from roof line to foundation (approximately 4 1/2").
- Fold bias tape strips in half the long way and finger press.
- Glue folded bias tape to side edges of house (half on front and around to the back) to cover raw ends of bias tape and cardboard.
- Cut 2 strips of gray bias tape the length of the sides of the roof (approximately 2-1/2") and a third strip the length of the top of the roof (approximately 5 1/2").
- Follow steps 13 and 14 to finish edges of roof.
- Glue window and door appliqués to front of house (see photo).
Chimney
- Cut 3 strips of brick bias tape approximately 1 1/2" long.
- Lay brick bias tape over adhesive on chimney the long way. Butt long edges together.
- Wrap excess bias tape around edges of chimney and glue down.
- Draw bricks on chimney with a fine point marker.
- Glue chimney to back of roof (refer to photo for placement).
- Draw lines on roof with fine point marker to create shingles (see photo).
- Enjoy!
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Bias Tape Village Colonial House
