Gingerbread House Happy Holidays Fabric Font Frame Pin Ornament Pattern Printable For 1 1/2" x 2 1/2" Photo

Gingerbread House frame ornament for 1 1/2" x 2 1/2" photo, with gingerbread man and marshmallow snowman, chocolate window and door trim and cookie steps and plaque above doorway!

This makes a wonderful gift, hanging tree ornament, tabletop photo frame, gift tag, door or drawer hanger, even a table place card holder for holiday dinners!

Available with "Fabric Font" words / letters & numbers, aqua blue "icing" writing, on a cookie plaque above the door, in:
Merry Christmas
Happy Christmas
Happy Holidays
2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Our Home
Our New Home
1st Home
First Home
Home
New Home
Our First Home
Our 1st Home

The words and numbers on the "cookie plaque" above the door are a darker aqua blue "icing writing", in the "Fabric Font" letters, numbers, and characters, simulated lengths of fabric, form 110 characters, all 94 keys on the keyboard plus space bar, plus 20 special symbol characters, currency, punctuation, etc. Buy, download, and install the "Fabric Font" in my store, a zip file with .otf (open type face) Fabric Font, created in 2000 by Kristie Hubler for the business logo for Fabricated Frames at FabricatedFrames.com - it installs on all of the apps / programs on your device that allow you to change or customize the font style, and then just type away, and create your own printables and crafts, art, for personal use only, of course.

I have a Gingerbread House frame ornament with a blank cookie plaque, that I can customize and put your name or special saying on, in the Fabric Font!
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Supplies:
paper card stock letter size, OR washable inkjet printer fabric sheet, with Therm o Web HeatnBond Lite or Featherlite iron on adhesive interfacing with paper backing (keep paper backing for ironing later)
Modge Podge or self laminating sheet
2 lengths of ribbon: 1/8" or 3 mm wide by 2 feet or 2/3 meter, 1" wide by 9" long
hole puncher with 2" reach
scissors, paper trimmer
2-3 hot glue sticks and low temp glue gun - can be a kid craft, with adult supervision, when using AdTech Ultra Low-Temp Cool Tool | Mini Hot Glue Gun (on Amazon or at Michaels or Walmart), along with the special pack of 10 glue sticks made for the glue gun - this glue gun is 75 degrees cooler than the average low temp glue gun, making it safe for kids to use, safe to the touch, just warm, not hot!
acid free / photo safe sheet protector page for flexible strut leg piece and protective photo sleeve - found at Walmart, Walgreens, & Target for $4 - $6 for 50 pages pack - just make sure its labeled acid free or photo safe!

Printable has 6 panel parts to cut out and assemble into a frame ornament, plus 1 pattern panel to use and cut out a clear piece of photo safe / acid free sheet protector page or vinyl, or fleece or flannel, or felt, to place between the front & back strut leg panels split into top and bottom, where the flexible piece will allow for the strut leg to bend, and pitch out!

There are holes for threading ribbon through to hang as an ornament, 2 holes for inserting a 1 1/4" bar pin back for wearing as a brooch badge, holes for threading ribbon through panels 2 & 3, 7 holes connect with ribbon in both directions to make the photo pocket!

Just cut out the panels, include the flaps to fold under and glue or tape / adhere down, cut into and away at inner and outer corners, cutting away excess white spaces, hole punch circles with a quality hole puncher with a 2" reach. Connect panels 2 & 3 with ribbon to make photo pocket. Assemble and glue panel 1 (front) on top of panel 2 facing down, and panel 4 (easel back) on back of panel 3, leaving a pocket opening for ribbon at bottom right corner, to finish frame later. Then work on strut leg, by cutting out panels, trimming excess and corners, folding flaps under, making sure the top & bottom are split and the flaps are folded under. Place clear strut leg piece on top of back strut leg pieces facing down, place 1" wide ribbon 9" long, along vertical side of right angle, leaving ribbon dangling to tuck into bottom right corner of panels 3 & 4, later, then place front strut leg pieces on top of clear piece and back strut leg pieces. Then align finished strut leg bottom right corner to bottom right corner of main frame's easel back. Glue top part to easel back, stand frame, with ribbon pulled out, frame sitting on it, in front of the frame, trim down to 2", using a straight pin, or safety pin, or even tape, pin on ribbon where frames stands by itself without help, then tuck ribbon end into pocket on bottom right made up to where pin meets the frame bottom. This can be tricky, so be patient. It takes time to make sure the frame stands, strut leg pitched out, and stand on its on, before finishing by glueing the ribbon inside at the bottom. Please be patient. Then you are finished. Just cut a photo safe / acid free piece of clear sheet protector page the size of the photo for the protective photo sleeve, in lieu of glass or plexglass.
Optional coating to keep design from smearing: use Modge Podge decoupage or equal parts Elmer's glue and water ( 1/2 cup & 1/2 cup each) then mix. With plastic wrap under sheet printable, coat design panels using brush or sponge brush, keeping brush strokes in same direction. coating front (panel 1), panel 4 (easel back) and front strut leg panels first, then inside panels. Can coat back side.

You can also add your own paper decorations to the frame, like candy canes, mints, gum drops, etc.

I have a video tutorial with step by step instructions on my Youtube channel, https://youtube.com/user/fabricatedframesCom and the video for the Gingerbread House frame ornament is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWkMfgcLprE

Thank you!
Kristie Hubler
artist, inventor, author, product and pattern designer, printables maker, and owner of http://fabricatedframes.com
fabricatedframescom at gmail dot com