Gingerbread Cupcakes

Merry Christmas from the Gingerbread Bakery! Three delicious, yummy Gingerbread Cupcake ornaments are included in this leaflet. Learn how to finish these cupcakes professionally, with our clear instructions and color photos! The tops of each one is different although they all use the same Red Silicone Baking Cups, available in the Accessory Pack. The tops are all stitched with white Perle Cotton using a simple blanket stitch, although you can also substitute satin stitches for simplicity. Then they are decorated with “Hardanger” icing sugar, some big colorful bead 'candies' and cute button charms, like iced Gingerbread Men, Roly poly Snowmen, and green Holly and red Berry Button 'candies'. Each cupcake is hung from handmade cording that you can make yourself. Instructions and color photos for finishing are included in back of this leaflet. Bake some Gingerbread Cupcakes today!

• Design area for each ornament: 38h x 38w (2.7" high x 2.7" wide)
• Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Gingerbread:
• Cut 3 pieces of fabric: 8" high x 8" wide for finishing

Suggested Materials

• Kreinik Mori #8000 - white
• Needlepoint Inc. #504 - red
• Needlepoint Inc. #645 - green
• Regular seed beads - mixed colors
• Large seed beads - striped and solid mixed colors
• Keepsake Christmas buttons small heart - red
• Iced Cookie buttons - gingerbread man
• Sew Cute Snowman buttons - red scarf
• Sew Cute Snowman buttons - green scarf
• Holly Jolly Christmas buttons - holly
• Snowflake buttons - white (DISCONTINUED)
• Itty Bitty Cookie buttons large heart - red
• 3 Red Silicone Baking Cups
• Picture this Plus 28ct Cashel Linen, "Gingerbread" or You can substitute other linen colors if you so desire...
• DMC #8 Perle Cotton (thick twist) - white
• DMC #12 Perle Cotton (thin twist) - white
• #24 Tapestry Needle 
• #10 Short Beading Needle

Suggested Materials for Finishing:

• Plain Paper
• Straight Pins
• Polyester Quilt Batting
• Clothes pins
• 4 ply Mat Board (acid free)
• Roller blade, ruler and cutting mat
• 2 long pencils or other smooth sticks like chopsticks
• White #12 or #8 Perle Cotton or other silky threads for cording
• Paper Scissors (sharp scissors used only for paper, not material)
• Very Sharp material Scissors to snip ends and cut fabric
• Sewing Needle