Have you ever wanted to add a little holiday cheer with a gingerbread house but didn't have space for a real one? Well that was me this year, so I decided to make one that looked equally as cool but didn't take up as much space. I created a perspective gingerbread house that appears to be 3D while actually only taking up 2D space.
Design your gingerbread house! Here is the template that I made of the cutout and then you can embellish it with your own designs. The red lines are to cut and the blue lines are to score. It is designed to hang from any sort of hook from the top of the chimney. For mine I decided to use a candy cane themed design and engrave Merry Christmas on the front. I designed it in Adobe Illustrator. Starting off by drawing a perspective rectangle before adding the roof, door, window, and candy cane framing.
You can do it out of any material, for this design I chose to use wood as to be close to the color of actual gingerbread. To process it place the wood in your machine and scale the design accordingly. Set the material type to basswood plywood and the thickness of your material (3mm for me). Then set the red layer to cut, the blue layer to score and the black layer to engrave. Then start the processing.
Now that the wall hang is complete you can display it in your house. I have attached 2 design files. 1 that attaches to the wall with command strips or similar and the other hangs from a screw or nail with a head no bigger than 1/8 in. Maybe put it by the tree or hang it in the kitchen. Over the dining room table would be fun too!