
Like the purple and yellow ‘fringe’ on the front – it is really different. Lots of little touches like wreaths on windows, candy canes at front door and spearmint trees.

Like the purple and yellow ‘fringe’ on the front – it is really different. Lots of little touches like wreaths on windows, candy canes at front door and spearmint trees.

Save each of the five images above. Print on 8.5″ x 11″ paper borderless. Do this by selecting the image one at a time and click print. Options should come up: uncheck option to fit in frame and select 8.5′ x 11′ borderless and print. These will give you uniform pattern. To make it slightly small you can check the 8.5′ x 11′ with border. This plan can have moderate changes made by decoration to make it a church, house, post office or school.

I love the stained glass (candy) window added to this gingerbread house. This one has a clean design leaving the corners undecorated as well as the edges of the gingerbread men. The stained glass is made from melting a shiny candy. Melt the candy, pour onto wax paper to let it go flat and press same cookie cutter (cover with Crisco type product) that was used in the gingerbread itself and cut a shape out. You can also lay the gingerbread with the cutout directly onto wax paper and pout the melted candy into the cutout until filled. Make sure this is poured a little thick – otherwise it will be very fragile. This could be a school, church or house.

What a really cool gingerbread house – I love the use of nickel wafers (both colored and chocolate) when use for decorating of a gingerbread house. This gingerbread artist used jelly beans, nickel wafers,Fruity Pebbles and sticks of gum for the shutters. I like the small touches like the wreath in the window -it really added to the look overall. The artist used plastic Christmas trees and I would have found a candy or icing variety of some sort myself.
