Gingerbread Week: Gingerbread House Village

 

Welcome to Day 3 of my Impromptu Gingerbread Week! I had a lot of fun last year with a Dollar Tree Doll House to Gingerbread House transformation, and with Gingerbread design being even bigger this year, it was a given that I'd do more. I also had a couple of Dollar Tree Fairy Cottages I didn't use when I made my Halloween decor, so they became little Gingerbread Cottages!

Supplies:

• Dollar Tree Dollhouses. For this project you need two since each one is only half a house. 
• Ceramic Cottages or Small Houses. I got mine at DT which has Christmas Houses in that would work.
• Rustoleum and Acrylic Paints in Nutmeg and White
• White Acrylic Paint Pen
• Tulip Puff Paints
• Acrylic Paint Pen
• Mod Podge
• Glitter
• Misc. Embellishments

This is the style of DT Dollhouse I used. You can go with just one if you don't want a (no pun intended) full house. I took the roofs off. 

These are the Rustoleum paints I used. 

Spray paint the roofs white (shown here with one coat...I did another since the color was peeking through) and the base of the hose Nutmeg. You can pop out the windows and doors, but I find they're a pain to put back in, so I chose detailing them instead. 

Re-attach the roofs then put both halves together. I used a combination of super glue gel and hot glue and it doesn't matter if it shows through because it will get covered anyway. 

If you're like me, you have a stash of leftover supplies from previous projects so I went through mine and pulled out colors that worked. 

I grabbed two of these strips of adhesive rhinestones and used them to decorate the sides of the house. Again, don't worry about gaps because they'll get covered. Reinforced with some quick-dry glue. 

I used a white acrylic paint pen to highlight the raised areas of the house along with the windows. Then I grabbed some Tulip Puffy Paint in white and added snow!

I did a squiggle across the roof and down the sides of the roofline and sprinkled with some fine glitter. 

Et voila, Gingerbread Manor! Like I did with my Halloween Haunted Mansion, I added two smaller cottages using Dollar Tree Fairy Cottages. 

These are the ones I used. Very Spring looking, right? 

I hit these with the Rustoleum Nutmeg. Already looks totally different. 

I had a couple bare spots so I just went over them with Apple Barrel Nutmeg using a foam spouncer. 

Then, I painted the roofs white, added some to the base, and as with the dollhouse, I accented the raised areas using an acrylic paint pen. As always, I added some bling with some rhinestones and a tree charm to the door. 

To finish, I coated the roofs with Mod Podge and sprinkled on some tinsel glitter. 

I liked the way the tinsel glitter worked with the thatching of the roofs. 

Gingerbread Week Day 1

Gingerbread Week Day 2