Gingerbread Christmas {Maker Forte}

 Hello! I just love Christmas in July! It is so enjoyable to make cards for the holidays when the holiday stress doesn't accompany me in my creative space. I made these cards using the new Maker Forte Gingerbread Village and Modern Christmas Sentiment stamp sets. The Tiptree Jam and Palm Tree ink pads were perfect for this project!

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For my first card, I heat embossed the strip of gingerbread houses from the Gingerbread Village stamp set a few times on Kraft cardstock. Then, I stamped and colored three of the single gingerbread houses on Ultra white cardstock. Next, I fussy cut them and adhered the outer two directly to the card. I popped the middle one up on foam tape. To finish the card, I heat embossed the sentiment from the Modern Christmas Sentiments stamp set on a strip of Eclipse black cardstock. Then, I popped it up under the gingerbread houses. I rubbed white ink around the perimeter of the Kraft card panel and popped it up on a Teetree Jam card base with foam tape.

For my second card, I ink blended Tiptree Jam Color Hive ink through the first layer of the Flurry of Flowers Stencil on Kraft cardstock.

Next, I ink blended Palm Tree Color Hive ink through the second layer of the Flurry of Flowers layering Stencil.

Then, I stamped and colored a gingerbread house from the Gingerbread Village stamp set. I fussy cut it and added foam tape to the back. I stamped the sentiment on a strip of ultra white cardstock and popped it up on foam tape. Next, I cut out a strip of Tiptree Jam cardstock and rubbed white ink on the edge of the strip and stenciled panel. 

Finally, I assembled the card. I added foam tape to the stenciled panel and popped it up on a Palm Tree card base. Then, I added a vellum snowflake I had in my stash and popped the gingerbread house on top of it. Next, I adhered the strip of Tiptree Jam cardstock under the gingerbread house and popped up the sentiment strip on top. Lastly, I added some clear embellishments I had in my stash and ran a Wink of Stella Pen over the snowflake, gingerbread house, and sentiment. Unfortunately, I cannot capture that shine in my picture.

Thank you for stopping by! I hope I inspired you to make some holiday cards!