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

Sunny Saturday Share: More Holiday Themed Customer Cards

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! 

Limitless Labels 1 and Comic Strip Everyday card by Amanda Fitterer

Roly Poly Penguins and Forest Trees Stencil card by Janneke Peters

Roly Poly Penguins shaker card by Lio

Roly Poly Penguins card by Lio

Holiday Hugs card by Kristy Nyby Schalk

Surfing Santa and Tiki Time card by Danielle Dunlop

Surfing Santa and OceanView card by Danielle Dunlop

Baking Spirits Bright card Katie Brooks

Baking Spirits Bright card Katie Brooks

Gingerbread House card by Dawn

Snow One Like You post-it holder by Lynn

Tea-riffic, Scalloped Tag Square, and Polka-Dot Parade card by Amy Tsuruta

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:

Tiki Time Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tiki Time Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Gingerbread House Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Polka-dot Parade 6x6 Paper Shop at: Sunny Studio	Comic Strip Everyday Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Scalloped Tags-Square Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tea-riffic Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Tea-riffic Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Surfing Santa Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio
Surfing Santa Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Forest Trees Stencils Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Ocean View Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio
Snow One Like You Stamps 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	Limitless Labels 1 Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio	Roly Poly Penguin Stamps Shop at: Sunny Studio	Roly Poly Penguin Dies Shop at: Sunny Studio