A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Saturday, 15 November 2025

Gingerbread Men

The Peace on Earth challenge is celebrating its 100th challenge!  I've been on their Design Team since challenge #7 and I've enjoyed every single one.  Darlene and Diane come up with the best mood boards that always inspire me. 

The new mood board is full of gingerbread men.  I don't have any gingerbread stamps and I couldn't find my die.  But I did find some patterned paper covered in gingerbread men and I had an old card with a tiny cluster of die cuts that included one so I pulled it off the old card and used it for this card.


The sentiment is one of the great Kay Foley sentiments - I have quite a few of her sentiments and I just love them.  Sadly, the company that carried them (River City Rubber) has closed.  This sentiment mentions baking fancy cookies so I thought it went with the gingerbread men theme.  It also mentions decorating gifts with gold sparkly stuff so I included some gold thread behind the die cuts.  I stamped it in brown, layered it over the patterned paper, and added my little cluster of die cuts.

Please come and join us at Peace on Earth.  Maybe you'll be inspired by the mood board.  If not, "anything Christmas" goes.

I'm also linking it up with the Word Power Challenge where the sentiment is the focus of the card.

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Supplies:
Stamps - Kay Foley sentiment (River City Rubber)
Ink - Archival Acorn
Paper - white cs, gingerbread men patterned paper
Size - A2
Accessories - tiny die cuts, gold thread

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5 comments:

  1. Birgit16 November 2025 at 06:08

    This is darling Susan! You did well to overcome not having any gingerbread dies at your fingertips. This is just as sweet as can be!

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  2. Darlene 16 November 2025 at 07:41

    Oh how sweet Susan! Love that background paper and your sentiment panel is perfect! Thanks for also sharing it with us on our Word Power challenge. Beautiful inspiration!

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  3. Lia17 November 2025 at 02:30

    What a nice sentiment as a centerpiece!
    Lia xx

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  4. Loll17 November 2025 at 09:16

    Beautiful card. Love the poem and your sweet gingerbread man. :) xx

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  5. Pat17 November 2025 at 16:57

    I love the background paper covered in cute little gingerbread men, and the verse is lovely and also the little die cut one together with the holly leaf and heart and bit of gold thread look great added over the top Susan. x

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