(UPDATE: now available at Daisie for $5.98, just click on this first picture to go to the store)  Creating Gingerbread houses is such a traditional family activity for the holidays.  I remember having oooey goooey sticky fingers that just HAD to be licked!  We tended to make ours the simple way, using graham crackers, but we thought they were quite spectacular anyway.  So when I decided earlier this year that I wanted to create an entire collection of Gingerbread Cottage art, I was drawing upon my own childhood memories to maybe help you start a new tradition with your children or grandchildren.

This past couple of weeks have been some of the most fun designing I have done in a long time!  Each of my gingerbread kits work seamlessly together for all your Winter crafting needs.  I have so many kits coming that there will be a kit previewed almost every day next week. 

The first kit in the series will debut on Tuesday at THE DAISIE COMPANY.  I previewed it here last week.  This kit I am showing now will debut the following Tuesday and has 32 pieces that you can use to create gingerbread scenes for a gingerbread village.  Used together with the first Gingerbread Cottage Christmas kit which has rooflines, windows, doors and all sorts of other items to personalize these blanks you can make and entire village of different houses, churches, and other cute structures. 

Layer them together as I’ve shown here and you can create a Christmas Card, food packaging for gingerbread cookie mix, a recipe card or a hundred other creations!

There are decorated pieces and pieces that are plain gingerbread for you to create your own unique snowmen, houses and signs.  If only I could figure out a way to include the scent of baking gingersnaps in the kit!!!!  Then you’d be instantly transported back to your childhood and right into the heart of the spirit of Christmas (just like I was as I created them).

Additional kits that are coming are a paper pack with 14 papers to compliment all of the sets, a gingerbread alphabet, A gingerbread cottage candy decorations add on kit, a gingerbread cooking add on kit with really fun mixing bowls, measuring spoons etc., the plain gingerbread three dimensional house box and the decorated gingerbread house box that I previewed earlier this week (both houses debut on Friday).

If you see anything that I’m missing that would be helpful to you in your creation process, please be sure to leave me a comment.  This kit was created in direct response to my questions to the ladies on the message boards at DAISIE COMPANY, thank you ladies for providing me with so many wonderful and inventive ideas!

Audrey Jeanne Roberts