The Gingerbread House

 Hi everyone. Happy almost Christmas to you.

Today will be my last post until after this weekend's Christmas holiday, but I wanted to share this gingerbread house journal page I made with you. I'm quite happy how it came out, especially since I was just randomly cutting paper to make it. 

Most of today's page is drawn and fussy cut by me.  The only thing I die cut was the mini gingerbread people.

I used brown craft paper for the gingerbread structure, including the roof, as it looks like bakes gingerbread. I did however cover the roof in some of this designed paper, which reminded me of the candy you might use to make the roofing shingles on a gingerbread house. The doors and window are colored with paint to give them their color, much as you might melt hard sugar candies or isomalt sugar to create the glass. When I finished, I sprayed the page with some white sparkle ink.

I am linking up to Valerie's When One Door Closes Another One Opens  challenge at Art Journal Journey If you can't tell I've had lots of fun making houses (still some to come) this month. My dad was an architect, and as a kid I used to draw houses and house plans using his tools. He'd look over my design and tell me what would work and what wouldn't. My dad didn't design houses himself as he worked on a lot of public buildings like schools and medical arts structures, but he would still tell me if my house design would create a nice looking home, or not. I haven't drawn houses for a long time, and this has been fun.

I've made several gingerbread houses over the years, and you would think this year, being home, I might try my hand it another one, but somehow this month has really gotten away from me. I'll put it on next year's list and see how things are going then. Smile.

If you celebrate the Christmas holiday, I hope you have a wonderful day. And even if you don't, have a wonderful weekend. 

Merry Christmas to you from me.