Gingerbread house

The current challenge over at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #174 is 'Festive food and/or drink'. I do have some House Mouse 'foodie' stamps, including their fabulous gingerbread house, but they take me an age to colour so I opted for a less intricate image to reduce the time spent bent over the desk colouring in:

I used:

- 5" x 5" square white card blank

- the image is called 'Sweet gingerbread house' by Digi Stamp Boutique. Coloured with Pro Markers then Wink of Stella added to the 'snow' and Glossy Accents on the window panes

- plain SU 'Wisteria Wonder' card stock for the matting

- snippets of SU's 'Bashful Blue' die cut using Cheery Lyn's 'French Pastry' die

-  lace from my little stock

- pink and white spotty paper from Wild Rose Studio's 'Wintry Christmas' paper pack

- sentiment is from a set by Personal Impressions called 'Everyday Words Happy Birthday', stamped with 'Pearlescent Orchid' Brilliance ink pad then punched with SU's 'Word Window' punch before being popped onto a punched snippet of 'Wisteria Wonder' card stock - I used SU's 'Modern Label' punch

Promise you, the card doesn't look as wonky in real life, and it's certainly not barrel shaped either :(

I also followed this sketch, so would like to enter this into the current challenge over at Papertake Weekly:

 

On a bit of a roll, I made two the same :)

And how about this for a mahoosive gingerbread house - photo taken in the hotel foyer when I last visited Cologne Christmas Markets:

Not sure if you can see but it was lit up inside and apparently it was all edible. You could smell the gingerbread too!

Di

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