Gingerbread Man Ornament SVG

About this design

This design flips the gingerbread man inside out. A round Christmas bauble, with a cap and a hanging loop on top, has a gingerbread man cut right out of its center. Thin lines of brown icing cross his wrists and ankles, so the details are drawn in reverse: the cookie shows as the light color and the icing as the dark one. It is a clever, graphic look that reads clearly from across a room.

The design is one connected piece with five cut-outs: the gingerbread man in sections and the loop at the top. In the layered version, the cream backing fills the figure, so he looks like a white sugar cookie inside a brown ornament. It passes our cut checks from about 3.5 inches tall.

Color layers

• Backing in cream, which becomes the gingerbread man
• Design in gingerbread brown, the ornament

Projects

• Flat ornaments in wood, acrylic or cardstock.
• Gift tags shaped like an ornament.
• Window clings.
• Mugs with a row of ornaments.
• Holiday cards with a gingerbread window.
• Kids’ shirts.
• Stencils for painting on wood or fabric.

Size and cutting tips

It passes our cut checks from about 3.5 inches tall. The icing lines across the wrists and ankles are thin, so use a fresh blade on cardstock. For acrylic or wood ornaments, 3.5 to 4 inches tall is standard. For a stencil, 5 inches or more.

Step by step: wood ornament

1. Set the design to 3.5 inches tall and download the color SVG.
2. Cut the brown design layer from brown or red adhesive vinyl.
3. Paint a round wood ornament blank cream or white and let it dry.
4. Apply the vinyl layer so the gingerbread man shows in the painted color.
5. Add a ribbon through the hole at the top.

Color ideas

• Brown ornament with a cream gingerbread man, the classic
• Red ornament with a white gingerbread man
• Green ornament with a gold gingerbread man
• Gold glitter ornament with a brown man inside, using a brown backing

Good to know

Because the gingerbread man is a cut-out, this design also works as a stencil. Cut it from stencil vinyl, apply it to a wood slice or fabric, dab on paint and peel it away to leave a painted gingerbread man inside a painted ornament.

Variations to try

• Use the editor’s offset border for a die-cut sticker.
• Place three in a row in your software for a garland of ornaments.

Pairs well with

The Iced Gingerbread Man is the full cookie, and the Gingerbread Circle Frame is another round design.