Gingerbread Houses

Posted by Claire Brennan on July 20, 2010.

Gingerbread Houses

Absolutely HAD to have a Gingerbread house - and so I designed this wee house for you to make up and hang on your tree.

The template may be found in our FREEBIES section, see the link above!

I designed it around the size of the candy swirls from Half Baked Gingerbread Joy and I was so pleased with how it works out. I kept mine fairly simple but you can dress it up how you like. Try it out with a white card 'snowy' roof like I did - it's so dinky!!

AND - the smaller ginger bread folks in the Oven Fresh Gingerbread Joy are just the right size for the house!!! I just love things that match!!

I printed mine onto ginger/brown cardstock (from stash) and stamped and white embossed the details before making it up. I used my half inch circle punch to trim out the candy swirls which I had stamped in Pure poppy red ink.

Check out the wee little doorways - I stamped the pattern in Versamark using the blanket stamp from the Half Baked set. There's a neat trick for doing this. While your template is still flat, fold the doors back to the 'inside. put post it notes or another masking paper behind the doors and stamp. Lol - you can see in my pic that I used a scrap of card to show you this, it's all printed over!

For the scalloped roof, I made a mask by punching along the edge of a post it note with my half inch circle punch!! I sponged the scallops in white in, sprinkled on some white embossing powder in a patchy way and heat set it. If you gind that the ink is too dry once you've finished sponging the roof, simply go back over a couple of rows at a time to do the embossing. Apologies for the dreadful pic, operator error!! lol - it was 2AM!