Lawn Fawn Intro: Gingerbread Friends

- kellymarie

Hello and Welcome to Lawn Fawn’s October Inspiration Week! We will be showcasing 2 new stamp sets, 8 new stand alone dies, 2 new ink pads and a new ink cube pack. All of our Fall/Winter 2018 Release is available now at lawnfawn.com and at your favorite craft stores!

We already have three places you can leave comments to win:
Our big giveaway post!
Our Oh What Fun post!
Our Reveal Wheel Holiday Sentiments post!
AND today’s post too!

Today is our showcase of Gingerbread Friends! Satisfy your sweet tooth with these cute dies! This set includes two gingerbread people, and lots of “frosting” and accessories to create adorable holiday cards, crafts and decorations! The Design Team has made the most amazing samples! And we have a video at the end showcasing some fun ways to use this set!

Remember to click on the person’s name to see all of the details and leave these wonderful DT girls some comment love!

Megan‘s gorgeous card combines the sweet gingerbread house from Sweet Christmas with our new Gingerbread Friends die set in an adorable scene! Stitched Windy Backdrop and a Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Frame add texture and fun design!

Elena‘s cute trio of Gingerbread Friends have sweet pink cheeks along with lovely dimension from ink blending on the edges! I love how she used our Spring Sprig die set to add a wreath of greenery to the Reverse Stitched Scalloped Circle Window! The holly berries are found in our new Woodland Critter Huggers Winter Add-On die set!

Kay‘s fantastic card is bright and cheerful with traditional red and green! She combined papers from Really Rainbow Christmas and Knit Picky Fall to create the background for her adorable Gingerbread Friend! She finished this design with a greeting from Simply Winter Sentiments!

Dress up your holiday gift packages with adorable Gingerbread Friends tags! Yainea added a card back to her tags so she can include the Tiny Tag Sayings to and from on the inside!

Audrey‘s card is simply adorable! I love how she paired the sweet Gingerbread Friend with the mugs from Thanks a Latte! The pink bow and googly eyes add perfectly cute details!

Who wouldn’t want to receive a sweet gift that comes in packaging this adorable? I love Latisha‘s bright Really Rainbow Christmas Tote Bag, but that bright pink Gingerbread Friend really makes me smile!

Lizzy‘s card is so charming with the angry gingerbread cookie that someone nibbled on! The pretty Really Rainbow Christmas papers die cut from an Outside In Stitched Scalloped Circle and a delicate Valentine Border add to the sweet look of this design!

I love how Elise added bits of sparkle to her adorable card design! The Scripty Sweet greeting looks amazing die cut from the glittery gold Sparkle Holiday cardstock!

The bright red Reverse Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Window perfectly frames Melissa‘s cute Gingerbread Friend and makes her design pop! I love how she added snowy texture to the Winter Scripty Sentiment with Textured White Embossing Powder!

The Pixie Dust Sparkle cardstock in the background adds the look of sugary sweetness to Rebecca’s all die cut Christmas card! Her Gingerbread Friend is decorated with lots of “frosting”! She brought in the traditional Christmas colors of red and green with the Fancy Scalloped Rectangle and Merry Christmas Line Border!

Lynnette‘s delightful card features a trio of gingerbread cookies and a sweet sentiment from Winter Scripty Sentiments! I love how she added the touched of red and green to the happy Gingerbread Friends!

Now, I have a little video for you showing Gingerbread Friends in action and some fun things you can do with it. I hope you enjoy it! You can watch it below or click HERE to watch  at our YouTube channel.

Thanks so much for watching!

Chari‘s adorable Gingerbread Friends garland would be awesome on a mantel, strung on a Christmas tree or decorating presents under the tree!

Chari‘s card is so adorable with the Gingerbread Friends cut from felt! She backed the the felt with cardstock to give it some stability on her sweet design! I love the fun Winter Big Scripty Words sentiment, it really pops on the bright green Everyday Sentiment Banner!

I hope you have enjoyed this look at Gingerbread Friends! Tomorrow we have another fun set to show you! For now, though, it’s giveaway time! Leave us a comment telling us your favorite holiday cookie or treat by October 17th at 5:00pm ET, and we will randomly pick one winner for this die set! (If you already own this die set and win, you can choose another set!) Make sure to come back tomorrow, Monday October 15th for our next inspiration week post!

Thank you so much for all of your excitement for our inspiration week! Your comments, tweets, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube messages mean so much to us! Every one puts a big smile on our faces! We think Lawn Fawn fans are the best in the world. We love you guys!

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275 thoughts on “Lawn Fawn Intro: Gingerbread Friends”

  2. this garland is absolutely AWESOME !!! i loooooooove it !!! i was thinking about making a penguin garland with the woodland critters and didn’t really know how to attach them, this is a great idea!

  6. Almond cresents! Oh my, I didn’t think I wanted this die set but I must make that adorable Garland!!! I love watching your videos on my TV, so much better than on my phone!

  7. Love the gingerbread friends dies! So much amazing inspiration. I love the banner ❤️ My favorite holiday treat be Starbucks holiday coffees!

  9. I love Chari’s garland! What a great idea! My favorite holiday treat is my grandmother’s snickerdoodles….yum!

  11. I love Russian Teacakes. Yummy! And bon-bon cookies. And cinnamon roll cookies.
    Okay, I admit it, I’ve never met a cookie I didn’t like. LOL And the gingerbread people
    are sooooo adorable!!

  14. I LOVE the Gingerbread Friends! I want to make a garland this year to decorate my house! It’s so much more fun now that I have grand kids, to decorate! I don’t get to eat holiday cookies anymore, but I used to love Russian Teacakes!

  15. Love the gingerbread inspiration! My favorite cookie would be chocolate chip. My favorite Christmas cookie would be sugar cookies where we can decorate them and have fun.

  20. My favorite cookie is a frosted sour cream cookies. They are so much fun to decorate and so delicious! I love the gingerbread people as tags! Thanks for the inspiration.

  22. Each design is adorable, especially the garland. I also love how the gingerbread girl goes so well with the Thanks A Latte. My favorite holiday treat is what my family calls Grandma’s cookie. It’s an anise cookie that my grandmother and mother made. Now my sister, and niece are the cookie makers. Yum.

  23. These little guys (and gals) are so cute! Nice to see the ways you can change them around. My favorite cookies are Russian Teacakes, or Snowballs. But I make mostly chocolate chip because they are the ones that get gobbled up in our house.

  24. My favorite holiday treat is chocolate fudge, yum! I love these adorable gingerbread people! There is so much great inspiration!!!

  27. Cute little gingerbread people. My favorite Christmas cookie are Italian waffle cookies, Pizzelles, made with love by my daughter in law.

  30. The Gingerbread Friends set is fabulous! I love all the cute projects—especially the garland! My favorite holiday treat is homemade fudge—so yummy!

  35. Gingerbread is my all time favorite! I collect them and decorate my home at Christmas time with them. These are adorable!

  37. I love anything with chocolate..especially truffles. Cute gingerbread dies…love that you can customize it and create all sorts of expresssions.

  38. I just love the gingerbread people garland! How cute would that be strung around the tree, especially if you combine that with cutting it from felt! I’m so excited to get the girls to help me with that.

    My favorite holiday cookie is the snowball and my favorite holiday treat is from Starbucks – their white chocolate peppermint mocha. So yummy!!

  41. Is it wrong to feel hungry after seeing all these yummy gingerbread people from this Gingerbread friends set? Seriously, they are so cute and I love all the added details and frosting! My favourite Christmas cookie is whipped shortbread with a bit of candied cheery!

  45. Your videos are always so helpful showing how to make the most of your die sets. I’d never thought to use felt, and love that this will add great texture. I could use white felt on snowmen too. Thanks for the inspiration. Anything with chocolate is a hit with me – a little truffle (or a large one!) always goes down a treat.

  49. Love this new die. My favorite cookie for holidays are sugar cookies. Thanks for sharing all the great ideas.

  52. My favourite holiday cookie is soft Gingerbread. Love all these projects. The Design Team has it done it again. Thanks for the chance to win. Good luck everyone.

  54. Chari’s garland is so pretty, it would look great on a mantel. My favorite Christmas treat is krumkake, I think I could eat the whole batch at once!

  61. Darling! My mom makes CANDY CANE COOKIES (Basically sugar cookies with almond extract shaped like candy canes!) I LOVE the smell and taste of Almond extract! Thank you for the chance to win 🙂

  63. Just OH so Sweet!! Favorite holiday treat? Ooooo that’s so hard! Shortbread, done proper definately takes the….cookie!

  65. The gingerbread dies are adorable!!! Love the little garland!! My favorite Christmas treats are peanut brittle and homemade chocolate covered cherries..

  67. “Forgotten cookies ” (little meringues with chocolate chips)and rumballs and shortbread are my favourite holiday treats. I would definitely make the garland if I had this die! So cute! And tags!

  68. I love those gingerbread people and all the inspiration projects today! Love the ones with a bite taken out of their legs. My favorite holiday treat is chocolate fudge with walnuts. Mmm! Thank you for the chance to win!!

  71. My favorite holiday treat (as well as everyone at my hubby’s work) is Oreo Truffles. Good quality dark chocolate is key, and my homemade vanilla is the secret ingredient. Seriously, lines form for these things!

  74. Any hot beverage topped with whipped cream, sprinkles & edible glitter! Oh and a wee bit o rum….
    I also love pie; any kind, shape, size or flavor….pie and hot coffee works for me! I love everyone’s ginger samples.
    Used as tags is really clever & cute!

  78. I am an equal opportunity cookie lover… But when I was young I loved that mum and I would make gingerbread cookies and decorate them.

  79. That sad little Gingerbread man with the bite out of his head – LOL!

    Favorite Christmas Cookie or Holiday Treat would be some type of shortbready/butter cookie. I try different recipes – favorites are an Oatmeal Thins, a Sugar Cookie recipe made with butter and oil. Basically anything that practically melts in your mouth and tastes great with a cup of tea.

  86. I love all these adorable gingerbread creations! Gingerbread cookies are my favorite holiday treat! I have so much fun baking them. I bake batches of Spritz cookies too. Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂

  90. Love all of these cute gingerbread projects, I have to go with the peanut butter cookies with the hershey kiss in the middle as my favorite, although cut out sugar cookies are a close second!

  103. I love German Stollen! It’s not really a “Treat” but it becomes a Treat for me, when I find it on the shelf of nice bakery in early December. It makes me think Christmas is coming 🙂
    So, you did it again, Kelly! Your video made me want to add this set in my next wish list! When I looked at them, I didn’t plan to buy them even it’s so cute. You know, we can’t afford ALL the cute things you guys create! But this, after this video, yes, I placed it on my wish list 🙂

  104. Awesome samples!
    My favorite is a Scandinavian Almond Bar recipe that I make every year! I’ve made them for years, and they are my daughter’s favorite too!

  106. I love peanut butter chocolate peanut potato chip clusters — what’s not to love?? And these gingerbread folks are super cute!

  110. I have been patiently just joking waiting for this tutorial and inspiration oh my cookie goodness love love love you girls are phenomenal

  111. Love this die set! Too adorable. I have to say my favorite holiday treat is a pumpkin roll. I love pretty much anything pumpkin.

  112. I love butter cookies that are cut into shapes and
    decorated with icing and sprinkles. I don’t have
    the patience to make them so I stock up at
    cookie bake sales in December.
    Love the little gingerbread family.
    thanks for sharing
    txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com

  114. These projects are the cutest! I love gingerbread (not cookies, but cake-like bread) + hot cocoa during the holidays!

  115. Every year my daughter and I make Christmas cookies with my mother. It is a multigenerational tradition that we love. And most years we make gingerbread men too. 🎄

  117. My favorite holiday treat is fudge with walnuts. The inspiration from this post was so influential that I ran to my craft store this morning and got the Gingerbread Friends dies. Got them snipped apart; now it is time to start playing!!

  118. My favourite holiday treat would have to be eggnog – sounds a bit odd but we honestly only have it around the holidays so I consider it a treat!

  120. My favourite holiday treat on the savoury side are my Mom’s Rice Krispie Cheddar Crackers and on the sweet side I love my Mom’s Butter Tarts. And I have to say I love this Gingerbread Die set too. 🙂

  122. Oh my goodness, such creativity! I love the size of these dies and the attention to detail that you provide, such as the curly-q icing. It’s going to be fun playing.

  123. These gingerbread are so cute. I love the cards. Every year I have a gingerbread party of my daughters. Used to serve hotdogs for lunch and now we have a turkey dinner! They get better every year! Thanks for the chance to win!

  124. My favorite Christmas cookies are pecan balls. But I do really like sugar cookies with icing. Oh and peanut butter with Hershey kisses and ….. I guess I really like Christmas cookies.

  125. Oh man! My favorite cookies are thumb print cookies. My mom always made them when we were kids and now I make them every year for my office cookie exchange.

  126. These are so cute! My favorite holiday cookie or treat are spritz cookies. I could make myself sick eating them.

  127. Oh boy thats a hard decision to make, as I like most cookies. However I think it is good ole chocolate chip cookies. Can’t go wrong with them!

  129. Awww, these gingerbread people are super cute!! My favorite holiday treat is FUDGE (specifically chocolate and/or peanut butter)!

  131. I love the gingerbread. I think gingerbread and hot cinnamon candy or icing is one of the best treats ever. I love the combination of gingerbread and Thanks a Latte.

  135. The kids always ask for my Sherry Pound Cake and Chocolate Fudge and Peanut Butter Fudge… and I am happy to oblige!

  136. Oooo, there are so many good sweets to choose from!! I think that either pumpkin pie or peanut butter bon bons are my favorite!! 🙂

  137. These gingerbread people are adorable!
    My favorite is sugar cookies and getting with the grandchildren to decorate them.

  139. Growing up, my Grandma would send us cream candy. I’m not sure what it’s made out of, but I have fond memories of that.

  140. Super cute little gingerbread man family! Such a cute die! My favourite Christmas cookie is what our family calls “Moose Balls” which most other families call icing sugar balls. It’s basically an apple, oat, raisin, cocoa and a load of brown sugar unbaked cookie. Then you roll them into little balls and roll them in icing sugar. They are super scrumptious! What is your favourite treat?

  146. I love pumpkin pie with fresh whipped cream, but I’m also a sucker for the holiday shaped pretzels dipped in white chocolate and topped with colored sugar—they make an appearance at our family’s Christmas every year!

  148. I love Russian Teacakes/Mexican Wedding cookies…Yum! This Gingerbread men are so cute and the card ideas are fantastic.

  150. Oh my goodness these gingerbread people are just too stinkin cute!!!!!! Lovely designs by the team!
    My favorite Christmas cookie is an Italian cookie that almost melts in your mouth. It’s very soft, flaky and they are round, about the size of a quarter or so and they have white powered sugar on top! SOOO GOOD! I don’t know the name of them though, but man they are delicious!!!
    Hugs,
    Jo in Jersey

  151. Oh my gosh this set is so cute! I have so many favourite holiday treats – butter tarts, sugar cookies, thimble cookies, haystacks, just to name a few 🙂

  153. Oh Gosh, so cute! My All time Favorite Holiday Treat is always going to be Sugar Cookies that the family has iced together.

  157. These are the cutest gingerbread cards. They are the closest I would get to gingerbread, I hate it! My favorite Christmas treat is a tie between sugar cookies and chocolate covered cherries.

  162. I love sugar cookies decorated wirh royal icing! my bestfriend and I get together every year and bake hundreds to gift to all our friends and family!

  163. I love butter and chocolate cookies!! And the
    best moment to make them with my family is at Christmas time. 🎄🎄🎄🎄

  164. My fave holiday treat would be “Baumkuchen”, a german cake where delicious biscuit is layered in thin strips and covered with either milk or dark chocolate :-).
    The dies are delicious ^^

  165. Adorable Gingerbreads!!!
    My favorite holiday cookie is a Sicilian biscuit that my grandma used to do during Xmas time. It a shortbread stuffed with a fig compote. And covered with sprinkles.

  169. Such cute ideas….I especially like the gingerbread garland. Great idea! My favorite holiday cookie would have to be Magic Cookie Bars…..they were a staple in my house growing up.

  170. Oh these gingies are so cute! Perfect for Christmas cards! My favourite cookie/treat are spekulatius/speculaas biscuits – once they appear in the shops, I know Christmas is coming!

  174. What sweet little gingerbread people! I really love the first card with the gingerbread house! My favorite holiday treats are chocolate covered pretzels, peppermint patties, chocolate covered cherries, gingersnaps, and our iced sugar cookies!

  178. EEP! These little guys and gals are so stinkin cute!!

    Fave holiday treat is something I haven’t had since my mom passed away, but it was and will always be her pumpkin bread!!

  181. How cute is that garland of gingerbread friends!
    My favorite treat is rocky road candy. Not very traditional, but so yummy.

  182. These gingerbread people look delicious!My favorite holiday treat is iced sugar cookies in fun Christmas shapes!

  187. That little gingerbread man is so cute!!! Make me want a cookie. My favorite treat is sugar cookies with icing. I used to make them with my boys when they were younger. All of the gingerbread cards are awesome.

  189. Oh gosh! Super cute Gingerbread Cookie Family. Love the detail and designs! The bite out of the cookie is so funny. We love both gingerbread and shortbread jam holiday cookies.

  192. The gingerbread friends set is too cute! I love the way you can make so many different expressions on their faces. And the one with the bite taken out made me laugh. Love it!

  209. Decked out sugar cookies. I back a dozen different cookies for Christmas and the plain old sugar cookies are my favorites. lol

  211. Those Gingerbreadmen- and women are so cute!
    I love many cookiesbut I dont know how to describe any of them. I’d say Vanilla crescents (the onesmy mom makes are the ebst) and gingerbread..animals. Because we dont make men we make all sorts of animals and trees and guitars and whatever shaped cookie cutter we have (we have so many!)

  212. Adorable gingerbreads cards! My favorite holiday treat are my homemade pumpkin nut muffins and apple crisp we have at Thanksgiving.

  213. There are way too many holiday treats that are delicious for me to choose just one! I do love the gingerbread folks- it would be so fun to craft with them!

  216. Love all sorts of Christmas cookies – fave treat is an old Italian traditional treat we call schelede it is fried anise flavored dough dipped in honey.

  217. Whether solo, or in ‘families’, or on banners, these gingerbreads are the cutest EVER…even the ones wearing frowny faces! Adorableness to the nth degree! Favourite holiday cookie: shortbread cookies, made by my mom! Sadly, she doesn’t bake much anymore, but I’m going to try to convince her to make a batch (or several) of these. Fingers crossed that, together, we can bring back the tradition…
    ~carol

  218. Oh this die set is just fantastic! And the projects made by the DT are simply amazing!!
    My favourite holiday cookie is a gingerbread man!!

  219. My favorite treats are pumpkin pie and then gingerbread molasses cookies that I make with the kiddos! I love the idea of felt gingerbread cutouts! My kids would LOVE to play with those! Gorgeous ideas!

  222. Oh my! This gingerbread cookies die it’s super cute! It’s so hard to choose between cookies because I love cookies, but my favorite one to make is “bolitas de nieve” which are mostly made with pecans and covered with powder sugar! Yum!

  223. These are super cute – I’m especially loving the bite marks option! 🙂 My fav holiday cookie is a Gingerbread cookie – not because of the taste (not my fav…), but because of how perfect they bake for decorating!!

  227. Those gingerbread people are just adorable!
    My favorite holiday goodie is the “Italian wedding cookie.” Not sure if this is a holiday treat, but it only seems to appear at my house around the holidays lol.

  228. My Mom used to make the best ever cut out sugar cookies. And, I got to frost them. I sure miss doing this every Christmas.
    the Gingerbread Guy and Gal are just adorable.

  230. Grandma’s home made caramel’s and spritz cookies can’t be beat! For real! This set is cute. Loved how Chari thought of a different paper craft, gingerbread garland is adorable. I also like how Kelly darkens the gingerbread people to give them that baked look.

  234. This gingerbread man is too cute ! To answer the question, there’s not a really Christmas treat in my family tradition. Sorry ! Thanks for the opportunity to win. Love, Marjorie
    [margessw(at)icloud(dot)com]

  235. My favorite to eat is a snickerdoodle, all that cinnamon warmth! My favorite to make is sugar cookies because it’s fun to decorate!!!

  248. Cornflake cookies are my favorite-peanut butter, butterscotch chips, and cornflakes all rolled together into a cookie!

  249. I absolutely love these gingerbread guys! My favorite holiday treat is the peanut butter cookies that have the Hersey kisses on them. Mmm…so good!

  250. The homemade treats that other people make as Xmas gifts are my favorite, especially homemade chocolate fudge and buckeyes. Chari’s gingerbread people garland is such a neat idea, and so cute!

  251. We all need friends and the gingerbread die and stamp set will give us the opportunity to send that special message of love to them!

  252. Let’s gather together with our friends this season. This gingerbread die and stamp set sends a special message of love to the ones we hold dear.

  254. These are so cute!! One of my favorite holiday treats is a chocolate cookie with an Andes mint melted on top, yummy!

  256. We love making homemade soft pretzels at Christmas time (along with sweet treats of course)! I don’t know how it turned out to be a holiday tradition, but it is in our house!

  258. Love Chari’s banner! Super cute! My favorite cookie is Lemon Snowballs. Shortbread cookies, lemon curd (YUM!) and powdered sugar… simple and simply the best!

  259. My favorite holiday cookie are ones that my grandma used to make (now my mom and aunts have taken over). It’s an old Italian recipe that is basically dough with red wine mixed in, rolled out, cut into strips, shaped, fried, then covered in honey and sprinkles. I can taste them right now.

  262. Christmas tags, cards, scrapbook pages, and cute little boxes await the recipients of these cute gingerbread people!
    Thanks to our creative Lawn Fawn designers, we never have to worry about what to do with these stamps and dies!

  269. Creativity and love will go into the cards that I will make from this set. I can hardly wait to have the opportunity to send some gingerbread people to loved ones.

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