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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Gingerbread Christmas Cards…

…almost good enough to eat!

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This is the second year that we participated in the Kids Craft   Weekly Christmas Card Swap.  Emily enjoyed it so much last year I couldn’t wait for this years.  And while I was flipping through the latest issue of our Family Fun Magazine (December/January 2011) I saw these adorable gingerbread house cards and knew they were the perfect cards for Emily to make for the swap.

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I printed the template from the Family Fun Website.  I traced the template onto brown construction paper and cut them out.

  IMG_6771  Emily used green 3/4 inch dot stickers with hole punched centers for wreaths, white reinforcements cut in half for icing and 1/4 inch dot stickers for added decoration.

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She also used a name badge label cut in half for the door and foam Christmas Stickers (gingerbread men, bows, and candy canes) for decorations inside the card too.  I printed a message on paper and cut it out with a decorative edge scissor to glue on the inside.

10 comments:

  1. Very cute! She looks so happy with her accomplishment.

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  2. I saw those in the magazine and I have it put aside to make next year. So cute!

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  3. How funny, we did Gingerbread Cards this week too... but yours are by far superior!!!

    Love them!

    Maggy

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  4. THANK YOU!!!! I signed up for the card swap too, but never received my addresses and could not for the life of me remember where I had signed up. I have emailed her now, so hopefully we can make some fun post-Christmas cards and send them out.
    By the way, your cards are super cute :)

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  5. Adorable! Your daughter and the craft! You have some wonderful projects! Love your book & art program. I teach art to children and I'm always on the look out for creative ideas-plus I have three of my own that are art junkies too so I'll be checking back in! Merry Christmas!

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  6. These are so cute. Using a name badge is inspired.

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  7. They turned out great and love the pictures. Thanks for sharing Kids Craft Weekly as I had not heard of it before. Kerri

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