Gingerbread House Holiday Cards & Gift Boxes with Mendi

Hello and welcome! This is Mendi, popping in to share some shaped Christmas cards featuring our Gingerbread House Dies. 

These fun cards measure 4-3/8" wide x 4" high. Several of the elements, like the roof, scalloped trim, the body of the house, and the foundation, all cut out in one pass, so I figured to keep pieces from going to waste, I would cut them out of kraft, red, and pink cardstock and then mix & match the pieces. I also sat and cut many of the decorative elements from small leftover scraps of white cardstock and then colored them with distress inks or Copic markers over a glass mat that was easy to clean up afterward. This allowed me to choose colors as I was assembling them and to give the shapes more shading and highlights, like I did for the gumdrops and doors that all started out as white cardstock. This was my first time using the dies this way, and I love how the woodgrain of the door was accentuated with the distress inks. It also meant I didn't have many leftover pieces since the door and the frame cut out together, and I wanted the door frame to be white to match the windows.

For my first card, I crafted a pink house using the Gingerbread House Dies, with a wreath and bow added from the Sweet Treat House Add-on Dies and loopy trim from the Icing Border Dies. The cute little gingerbread man and girl from our Christmas Cookies Stamps and Baking Spirits Bright Stamps perfectly complement these houses.

Next, I have a more traditionally colored Gingerbread House. This time, I colored the candy decorations in a rainbow of colors using my Copic Markers and accents with a white gel pen. My candy canes started out as solid white. I could have cut another one from red and pieced them together entirely from cardstock, but I found it much quicker to just use the embossed stripes to trace and fill them in with my markers to match. I also utilized some different windows from the die set for this particular card.

My last Gingerbread House card uses many of the same elements as the others, with the wreath from the Sweet Treat House Add-on Dies. However, this time, instead of adding decorative elements along the scalloped trim of the house, I adhered rows of scallops to the roof using the Icing Border Dies. This versatile die set comes with a third adorable border that I didn't get around to using today, but also complements the gingerbread houses so well.

Before I go, I wanted to share how easy it is to turn your shaped cards into shaped holiday gift boxes instead by cutting two of the outer house base shapes and adhering them together on either side with some scored cardstock. Isn't it so cute?! This is the perfect way to dress up a gift card or give small gifts like jewelry, soaps, and candy.

To take some of the guesswork out of measuring, I created a custom SVG cut file for use with a Silhouette or Cricut machine to make boxes of your own. It has been sized just right to work with our Gingerbread House dies, which you can download HERE. This is a visual example of a couple of cutouts illustrating where to score using a scoring board. To download the cut file from the Dropbox link, click "file" at the top left corner of the screen and select "download" from the dropdown menu (or click the downward arrow button at the top right).

That wraps up my projects for today. I would love to hear which of the three designs is your favorite. I can't personally choose. I love them all, and I had so much fun creating them! Of course, these are just a few of the ways these houses can be decorated. You are only limited by your imagination and I can't wait to see how YOU use them!🩷

Don't forget to check out the Gingerbread House Dies and Sweet Treat House Add-on Dies in our online shop, which are currently on sale!

Also, please check out all the card ideas using these sets on each of their product pages. I always upload tons of card ideas following the product image, so there are lots of ideas to scroll through, organized by set.

Supplies Used:

Gingerbread House Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Icing Border DIes Shop at: Sunny Studio	Sweet Treats House Add-on Shop at: Sunny Studio	Zig Chisel Tip Glue Pen Shop at: Sunny Studio
Christmas Cookies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Cookies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio

Holiday Express Card with Marine

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I'm back with this lovely gingerbread themed card featuring images from different sets, which is my favorite thing to do when I make cards, I really love how the Sunny Studio stamp sets can be mixed to create super cute scenes!

I started off by stamping the images on light kraft cardstock instead of the usual white cardstock because for some reason when I color gingerbread themed images I like to use kraft cardstock. I cut them all with the coordinating dies and colored everything with my Ohuhu markers. Here is a detailed list of the stamp sets I used: • Holiday Express - locomotive, wagons, presents, smoke, holly, connecting pieces • Christmas Cookies - gingerbread characters (wagons) • Baking Spirit Bright - gingerbread character (locomotive) • Snowmen In Sweaters - snowflakes.

I added highlights and details to the images with a white gel pen, and next I worked on the background. I cut a scalloped panel out of the same cardstock as the images using a Frilly Frames Eyelet Lace die and added texture to that panel using the Dotted Diamond Landscape die. I applied vintage photo and ground espresso distress inks to my scalloped panel edges, next I mixed some vintage photo distress ink with water and added brown splatters all over the panel, I did the same with vintage photo distress spritz for sparkles, and then the same again with copic opaque white ink for contrast. When my panel was dry, I attached it to a 5,5 x 4,25 inches light kraft panel using 1mm foam squares, and then to a card base using liquid glue.

I cut a banner out of dark brown cardstock using a Notebook Photo Corners die, white heat embossed "Have a holly jolly Christmas" from Build A Greeting Holidays on it, attached that banner to my card using 1mm foam squares, and finally the images using 1mm and 2mm foam squares. 

And that's it! Are you ready to get on the gingerbread holiday express? Come on and let's have some fun! Thanks so much for stopping by, and see you next time!

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Christmas Cookies Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Christmas Cookies Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Express Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Frilly Frames-Eyelet Lace Shop at: Sunny Studio
Notebook Photo Corners Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Dotted Diamond Landscape Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Snowmen in Sweaters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Snowmen in Sweaters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Build-a-Greeting Holidays Shop at: Sunny Studio

Sunny Saturday Share: Customer Card

Hey everyone, how are you all doing this weekend? I'm so excited to be popping in today with a Sunny Saturday Share. There have been so many amazing cards popping up on Instagram that have made my jaw drop so I couldn't wait to share them with all of you! 

Baking Spirits Bright & Woolen Mitten card by Maartje

Holiday Hugs & Woolen Mitten card by Cornelie Wilmink

Roly Poly Penguins card by Meghan Kennihan

Tulip Path Background & Bighearted Bears card by Janneke Peters

Birthday Cat card by Maartje

Happy Hamsters cards by Marinda

Savanna Safari, Fabulous Flamingos, and Tropical Scenes card by Christiana Reuling

Panda Party card by Allison Cope

Thank you for sharing all these fabulous ideas with us! I hope you will continue to share your gorgeous projects with us--It always makes my day to see them. Please tag us on instagram @sunnystudiostamps or share your projects with us in our flickr group. Sadly we are no longer able to view all the posts using our hashtag on Instagram so it's super important for you to also tag us @sunnystudiostamps so we can find them and they don't get missed. ❤

Sunny Studio Supplies Used:

Happy Hamsters Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Happy Hamsters Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Fabulous Flamingos Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Savanna Safari Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Savanna Safari Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tropical Scenes Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Panda Party Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Panda Party Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Cat Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Birthday Cat Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Baking Spirits Bright Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Baking Spirits Bright Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Hugs Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Holiday Hugs Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Bighearted Bears Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Bighearted Bears Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Roly Poly Penguin Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Roly Poly Penguin Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Tulip Path Background Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tulip Path Background Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Woolen Mitten Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio