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,

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,

November Lori Whitlock Creative Team Blog Hop

Happy November Everyone:

I am so excited for Thanksgiving this year because we are going to Ohio to spend the holiday with my son and new daughter-in-law.  She is a fabulous cook and they have a beautiful new house for all of us to enjoy.  Much to be thankful for and to celebrate.  I made these adorable place cards using Lori's new Flexi Place Card Set.  There are ten different designs to choose from so no matter the size of your table you will be able to make it cuter with these place cards.  You can find them here in Lori's store and here in the Silhouette Store.  I used Lori's Favorite Font on my tags for the placecards and you can find the font here in her store and here in the Silhouette Store.  I also used Lori's Echo Park paper line called appropriately called I Love Family.

Welcome to our hop.  You should have come here from Courntey's blog and will next be going on to  Lezlye's blog. 

Corri Garza 
Traci Penrod 
Kathy Skou 
Courtney Lee
Anita Mulcahey ---->>>> You are here
Lezlye Lauterbach
Ashley Cook
Tya Smith

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Hugs,

Thanksgiving Treat Holders

Happy Halloween Everyone:

It's Saturday which means that it is tutorial day here at Digi Playground.  I decided to make some Thanksgiving treat holders as I am responsible for bringing treats and desserts as my assignment.  Did you know that many of our files include a full color cut file option which I just find so very helpful when planning out what colors/patterns of paper to use for my project.  I usually go back to the Digi Playground web site and take a photo of the original project and then reference that when organizing my cut mat by file and papers used.  I love this little turkey and cup cake wrappers are always so much fun.  This cut file was made by our very own Samantha Walker and is called 3D Cupcake Wrapper Turkey and you can find it here.  

 

I love making multiple different designs which are tied together by the paper line that I used.  In  this case it was Fall Friends from Doodlebug.  The cut file on the right is called Thankful Short Envelope Bag and is by the Uber talented Jamie Cripps.  You can find this file here.  I took the white patterned leaf and laid that cut file over the background file and made the leaf file larger but keeping it smaller than the background so that I could add the second leaf which is red.

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The file on the left is also from Jamie Cripps and is called Turkey Short Envelope Bag and you can find it here

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I hope that you have a great weekend and enjoy these projects.  Be sure to check out the Digi Playground store for many more wonderful files.

Hugs,

Anita

Ewe-N-Me Printables Give Thanks Pillow Box

I love to host the holidays and bring some fun and color as well as a treat to the guests at my table.  I printed this Give Thanks pillow box and used some stickers to embellish it as a place card for my mom.

I think that these will look so lovely on each person's plate.  I am going to fill them with some chocolate truffles as a sweet take home treat.  They print up so gorgeous and can be embellished in so many ways.

This awesome printable is called Give Thanks Printable Pillow Box   There are also so many wonderful new items in the store that you just have to pop on over for a visit.

Hugs,

Anita