I have another set of Gingerbread Christmas cards for you today over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog. I’m sorry to all those people who hate hearing the word before 1st December, but I have to get an early start on my cards otherwise a panic will ensue! I have a thing for gingerbread stamps and dies. As soon as I saw the new Lawn Fawn Gingerbread Friends dies, my mind was whirring with the card possibilities! Paired with the Avery Elle Starry Scene stamp, and with a simple heat embossed sentiment, these cards are easy mass produced.
Gingerbread Christmas Cards Tutorial
Firstly, I started with an A6 top-folding heavyweight white card base. A stamp positioning tool makes this design easy to do, so I lined the Starry Scene background from up and stamped a gradient using three different colours of ink per colour combination. For the blue/teal cards, I used Lawn Fawn Fish Tank, Peacock and Merman inks. For the pink/purple cards, I used Lawn Fawn Blue Jay, Sugar Plum and Peachy Keen inks. I then stamped again in Versamark ink and clear heat embossed to get a shiny backdrop.
Secondly, I heat embossed the sentiment from the Lawn Fawn Merry Messages set in Silver for the blue card and rose gold for the pink/purple card.
Next came the fun part – building the gingerbread! I cut several of the base layers out from both white and kraft cardstock. I used some Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress Inks to add some dimension to the edges of the kraft pieces. I stacked these together to give some dimension to the card. For the faces and decoration I cut these from white cardstock and coloured different pieces in with my alcohol markers. I adhered these onto the gingerbread characters with some liquid glue.
These cards were so much fun to create and I now have 10 more cards to add to my Christmas stash!
Supplies
Please see below for information on the supplies used in this post. Please note, affiliate links* are used at no cost to you!
- Lawn Fawn Gingerbread Friends dies (Simon Says Stamp*, Seven Hills Crafts)
- Heffy Doodle Alcohol Marker Friendly Cardstock (Heffy Doodle, Simon Says Stamp*)
Oh My !!! They’re sooo cute I could eat them !! And your coloring is awesome !