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This sweet card from Catherine turned a bird house die into a gingerbread bird house with icing and gum drop trimmings. There’s also more die cut cookies scattered around and a pretty snowflake arch die too. Take a closer look at the Lawn Fawn blog.

If you’re someone who loves to bake or even just someone who loves to eat cookies then you’re going to want to check out the adorable and yummy trend of Gingerbread on Holiday cards! I don’t mean actual food but fun stamps, stencils, dies and embossing folders that feature not only Gingerbread men and women but houses and more. It’s easy to create handmade cards for Christmas that look good enough to eat. Today let’s take a look at some tasty examples!

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I love the blues Keisha used on her card, it works so well with the browns of the gingerbread! She placed all her die cut images over top of a plaid dry embossed background with some blue inking and added a stamped sentiment. Learn more at The Papermint blog.

Kristina created these darling Gingerbread Houses with dies from Concord and 9th, inking the edges for a more realistic look. She also created her own icing trim drawing with ,a glue pen and adding white embossing powder that really pops on the brown. Watch her video tutorial on the K. Werner blog.

You don’t just have to limit yourself to cookies, Rachel created two adorable Gingerbread ornaments for this delightful card. The die set she used also creates loads of other fun faces for a variety of Christmas ornament designs. Visit the Spellbinders blog for all the details.

These jolly jars are filled with gingerbread people and yummy candies on a dimensional card by Kathy. She die cut the jar from pattern papers adding acetate to the front and used preprinted dies for the images inside, there’s also cute tags tied with twine. Find step by step directions over on the Doodlebug blog.

This cute gingerbread man is sitting in front of a wintery window that’s made with dies and acetate and filled with fake snow and snowflake sequins. Notice the stamped Christmas tree peeking out from the snow too. There’s also a beautiful die cut bow at the top. I spotted this idea on the Scrap Diva Designs Instagram page.

Vannessa used a darling digital stamp for her sweet card. Using lots of layers of matted pattern papers for her background she added her stamped and colored image in a scalloped die cut oval with ribbon tied behind and a large stamped sentiment. This digi stamp can be found at Whimsy Stamps.

This cute stamped winter scene card features a yummy gingerbread house with glittery snow on the roof in front of a die cut hill of snow. There’s also a little gingerbread man, candy cane trim, gum drop tree and sweet stamped sentiment. These products are part of a kit from Riley and Company.

This adorable die cut gingerbread house has a cute gingerbread couple out front on a Christmas gift tag by Tammy. I love the pink and red color combo she used! You can also use these products to make shaped house cards or tree ornaments too! Learn more at the Sunny Studio blog.

Instead of a house or people here’s a cute Gingerbread tree. Kristie used products from Scrapbook.com for her card that includes dies and matching pattern papers. She’s sharing 10 gingerbread card ideas along with her card sketch for each one over on her Kristie Marcotte blog.

This is a super quick and easy Christmas card by Barb, she cut the gingerbread mitten from pattern paper, adding some extra touches like red gems and white twine. There’s also subtle stamped borders and stamped sentiment. You could make a bunch of these cute and simple cards in no time! Find directions on the BZB Stamper blog.

Ilda created an entire gingerbread village for a wonderful winter wonderland! She stamped and heat embossed the stamps from Honey Bee in white on Kraft colored cardstock for each house, adding small touches of color to them with Prisma pencils. Find all the details at the I Love Doing All Things Crafty blog.

I hope you’re not too hungry for some Gingerbread after sampling all these delicious card ideas!

-Heather

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