Yesterday some of my co-workers and I had a little gingerbread house decorating fun! We all started with the same house...
and added our own embellishments...
I love how each of them turned out!
Decorating these little houses would be a great activity for a holiday party, and super kid friendly too.
At each place setting provide an assembled house and fill small bowls with paper candy, wreaths, gingerbread men, trees, windows, banners etc for embellishing. Then turn on your favorite Christmas music and you've got yourself a party! They are really fun to make, and make very little mess.
Decorating these little houses would be a great activity for a holiday party, and super kid friendly too.
At each place setting provide an assembled house and fill small bowls with paper candy, wreaths, gingerbread men, trees, windows, banners etc for embellishing. Then turn on your favorite Christmas music and you've got yourself a party! They are really fun to make, and make very little mess.
Shapes:
I love how you put the banner in teal on the one! Too adorable.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to mine I made this past weekend!
JK I guess I can't post links :P
DeleteHi Karla, if you email the image to me I can add it to the holiday decorations features tomorrow. :)
DeleteWhat a fun idea!! Now I just need a Silhouette! lol I am stopping by from Little Inspiration btw.
ReplyDeleteOh My!!! Well done sil gang... Can't wait to see more inspiration tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteThere should be a 3D Gingerbread House contest. That would be fun!
ReplyDeleteCan I say , I just want your job! lol. sounds like a fun workplace!
ReplyDeleteHow sweet are these!!! We did a challenge on my website to make gingerbread (ok well, paper houses) they all came out great and it is fun to see all of yours! I am so hoping Santa likes my "dear santa" letter and brings me a Silhouette! bwahahahahaha Now I want to make one of these....ugh add it to the list of things to do before Christmas! lol Happy holidays and thanks for sharing.
ReplyDelete*gina*
Super cute ginger bread house decor! Happy holidays!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like so much fun! I wish I worked with you!! ;-)
ReplyDelete~Natalie
The links aren't working for me. I'll check back later and see if I can click through - love these little houses.
ReplyDeleteHi Eve, They have been doing some updates today but the links should be working now. :)
DeleteI just tried the links too and got a server error
ReplyDeleteHi Paula... they should be working now.
DeleteSuper fun! I should do these with my kids. The crafty little buggers would love this.
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ReplyDeleteI love this! Great for kids and not nearly as messy as gingerbread and frosting plus you know it will be standing when you're finished ha ha :) I hope Santa got my letter and Christmas miracles happen for this special girl! Really hope I get a silhouette this year!
ReplyDeleteWhat an adorable house! I'm stopping by from Little Inspiration.
ReplyDeleteSo cute - love it :)
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get that brown paper?
ReplyDeleteHi Suzette,
DeleteThe brown paper is Kraft paper that I purchased at Archivers, but you can usually find it at just about any craft supply store.
To answer the question below... once you have the shape open, click ungroup down at the bottom left of your screen. Then you can re-arrange the shapes to fit your paper size.
Hope this helps :)
Also,can you do a gingerbread house tutorial? When I put my 8.5 x 11 paper on my mat, the shapes are too large. How did I make it all work into that size paper?
ReplyDeleteyou need to ungroup the image...
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