Spruce Up your Tree with Dyed Gingerbread Men!

This gingerbread man is made out of cork found in bulletin boards!  No baking needed here.  Cindi Bisson discovered that cork could be dyed. So she cut a square of cork slightly larger than the gingerbread man shape and dipped it in a Dark Brown dye solution for 10 minutes.  After the cork dried, she used a cookie cutter as a template for tracing the gingerbread man shape; then cut it out with sharp craft scissors.  The rickrack scarf was dip-dyed in Teal blue. The white rick rack was used to look like faux frosting. Clever idea!  Make several for trimming your tree or use them as holiday package decorations.

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Cindi is a mixed-media artist and the Associate Producer for When Creativity Knocks, an online craft TV show (www.WhenCreativityKnocks.com).  She creates a weekly Simple Solutions project and writes a Product Review for the website.  To find out more about Cindi, visit her blog at www.FatCatCreations.blogspot.com