Beth's Paper Cuts: mummy

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Gingerbread Mummy

Hi Crafty Friends. Today I want to show you a cute way to use the Gingerbread Man die set from Stampin' Up! This is an adorable stamp and die set and I know that I will get a lot of use out of it for Christmas cards and treat packaging, but first I just had to make a mummy.

I started with a cut out Gingerbread man in Very Vanilla Cardstock and stamped a face on him. I sponged a bunch of scrap strips of Very Vanilla with Crumb Cake ink and glued them on top of the gingerbread man. Then I flipped the gingerbread man over and trimmed off all of the scraps sticking out past the die cut gingerbread man.

To make the banner I used the mini Alphabet dies. These dies are great for cards, scrapbook pages and more. The are unique in that they are on a larger die that cuts out multiple letters at once. You can go ahead and cut all the letters, or you can use strips of cardstock to cut out just the ones that you want. I do it both ways depending on how many letters I need. I store any unused letters in a case I found on Amazon so that I can use them on future projects.

I used the Stylish Shapes dies to make the banner. I cut out two of the long skinny banners and cut them in half. To attach the banner to the mummy, I found it easier to do it in three parts, a middle string piece and two separate bows at the ends, attached with glue dots. I then placed the banner pieces on top with Dimensionals.

I have a full length how to for this card on my YouTube channel with some tips and a few other Gingerbread Man samples. You can see it here:

I hope you like this project and will give it a try! You can see a full list of supplies below.

Product List

Gingerbread Man Bundle (English)

[165785]

$54.00

Gingerbread Man Dies

[165784]

$36.00

Gingerbread Man Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[165778]

$24.00

Mini Alphabet Dies

[162934]

$31.00

Stylish Shapes Dies

[159183]

$30.00

Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166780]

$14.00

Very Vanilla 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[166784]

$14.00

Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad

[147116]

$9.00

Sponge Daubers

[133773]

$7.50

Adhesive Sheets

[152334]

$11.50

Thursday, September 15, 2016

I love my Mummy :)

Hi everyone! I thought I would share this cute little mummy today! I have mostly been focusing on Halloween lately as it will be here sooner than you think. I will be sprinkling a bit of Thanksgiving and Christmas into the mix this month too! Those are my favorites!
I like the mummy from the Cookie Cutter Halloween set a lot because you don't really do much to finish him (or her)! I felt like I needed to do something besides just stamp it onto Whisper White cardstock, that is just too easy, so I stamped it onto watercolor paper instead.

I wanted to make my mummy a little dingy, old looking so I grabbed my Aqua Painter and just added a bit of Crumb Cake to the mummy just under the lines of the wrapping.
In this photo you can also see that I frayed the edges of my Basic Black cardstock as well, sort of adding to the dingy feel.

The background of my card has a quick wash of Crumb Cake with the Aqua Painter, and the burlap/cheesecloth? stamp from the Ghoulish Grunge stamp set. I really like this set and I can see it lasting well after Halloween. The fun textures of brick wall, paint dripping and burlap will be really fun textures to add to so many projects and I think will be fun for some mixed media projects as well.
I also added some bats from the set and some Bat Washi Tape. I even added some black thread just for fun.
Product List

Cookie Cutter Halloween Clear-Mount Stamp Set

[142255]

$17.00