Thankful Jar

Hi Everyone:
Anita here with a fun project that I made for one of my best friend's to use during the month of November.  The idea is that the fry box is full of cards that the members of her family can write something that they are thankful for on and then take a Hershey Kiss from the jar.  Hopefully the jar will be empty by Thanksgiving and the cards full and ready to be shared around the table on this special family holiday.  I used some papers from Lori's Echo Park Collection called A Perfect Autumn.  The cut files that I used are the following:
Flourish Pumpkin which you can find  here in the Silhouette store
Elf French Fry Box which you can find here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette store
There Is Always Something to be Thankful For which you can find here in the Silhouette Store
3 Print and Cut fall 3X4 Cards which you can find  here in the Silhouette Store
3 Print and Cut Fall 3X4 Cards which you can find  here in the Silhouette Store

I used the Elf Fry box and ungrouped the elements so that I could have a plain box.  I could have resized it but didn't need to because the cards I wanted to use fit perfectly.  I cut out ten pumpkins and scored them down the middle.  I glued the middles together and fanned them out to give my pumpkin some dimension.

Here is a close up of the jar.  I hope that my friend loves this and enjoys it as much as I did making it for her.\
Hugs,

Lori Whitlock October Creative Team Hop

Welcome to the October Lori Whitlock blog hop.  You should have come to my blog via the fabulous Kathy Skou's blog and you will be next going to the awesome Brandie Harding Adam's blog.  If you did not get to my blog that way you will want to hop from the beginning and can do that from Lori Whitlock's blog. 

I am taking a pumpkins quilt class with my friends and decided to make these awesome no glue Halloween boxes to give each quilter a treat with three frosted cookies inside. These work up so quickly.  I used the No Glue Halloween Boo Ghost cut file which you can find here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette Store.  I also used the No Glue Halloween Box Jack-O-Lantern cut file which is here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette store.  

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Be sure to hop all the way through to see what everyone on the team has created with this fun season in mind.

Hugs,

Thanksgiving Holiday Cracker Repurposed

Happy Thursday Everyone:
Anita here with a Thanksgiving project that I used a Lori Whitlock Valentine's Day cut file for.  It was a lot of fun to repurpose this file for my project.  The cut file for the box is called 3D Heart Cracker Box and you can find it here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette store.  I also used her 3 Thanksgiving Icons files for embellishing my boxes and you can find the file here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette store.  I used Lori's wonderful new Echo Park collection called A Perfect Autumn.
Here is a photo of the original cut file.
Here it is laid out on my mat.  I  planned to use the icons and make sure that they were the right size to cover up the heart tabs on the end of the cracker.  I ungrouped the file and got rid of the smaller hearts.  I resized my pumpkins to 2.480 X 2.391, Pilgrim hats to 2.873 X2.249 and Pies to 3.091 X 1.899.  I wanted to make sure that all of the heart would be covered up.
I needed to make sure that I was cutting a mirror image of the icons for the heart tabs so that they would look great when adhered to either side of the heart.  The pumpkin was the only icon that I had to use the mirror function in the replicate button which you can see both above and in a close up below.

In the following photo you can see that I have made a mirror image of the pumpkin on the left.
Here are the cut pieces for the pumpkin.  I am missing two pumpkins and two stems but wanted to give you an idea of what if looks like when cut.Here is the box folded and ready to be glued.  I put the oval of acetate glued to the inside of the window and the scalloped oval to the outside of the window.  I ended up folding in the end tabs and then gluing the hearts together and then gluing the icons onto the hearts.
Here are the finished close ups of the three boxes.


I am so happy with how these came out.  Crackers or poppers in the store are so expensive and not filled with yummy chocolates like mine.  Hope this has made you think about other ways to repurpose the cut files you have and are considering buying.
Hugs,