Cutting your own patterns is not nearly as hard as you might think. You can make it as small or as large as you like. If you are doing this for the first time, be careful not to make it too large. The finnished church WILL be larger than you expect!
Place the church on a block of styrofoam for good support.
Lighting: Cut a hole in the styrofoam for a light bulb. Lighting sold here
Glue your house pieces together with thin consistancy royal icing (Thinner icing soaks in and your house lasts longer before it dries out and falls apart. It should last several months.
Windows: Cut windows in your rolled out dough pieces. Add yellow crushed hard butterscotch candies. The candy melts while the gingerbread pieces bake.
I roll out and bake my pieces on foil.
Trim any miss-shapen pieces while
still hot and soft, using a fine-bladed knife.
Let house pieces cool completely
before assembly.
The 'lights' around the windows HERE
Licorice pieces were used around
bottom edge with royal icing "snow"