Thanksgiving Table Favors “Cone-u-copias”

I always like to have a little something on the table for guests. Like most of my projects, this idea just kind of came to me and I ran with it hoping it would pan out.

Since cornucopias are such an iconic symbol of Thanksgiving, I thought paper cones were in order.

You’ll need:

• Lightweight cardstock cut 6x6. I used a metallic gold by Recollections from Michaels
• Jute twine
• Embellishments
• Die Cuts

I formed my cone shape and taped and stapled together.

Pretty boring right? I had this package of leaf shaped doilies I found on one of my Dollar Tree trips and thought hmmm….maybe they would work here.

I just ran a line of tape down the center of my cone and stuck a doily about halfway in. Better. Still kinda boring. In lieu of a doily, you could use a big die cut.

What isn’t made better with jute? Ran a line of hot glue down the back of the cone starting about 1/3 of the way from the bottom and then wrapped my jute around ending at the bottom.  Had some more glittered turkeys from other projects ( Recollections) and glued one on top of the twine.

Then die cut oak leaves using the Memory Box Leaf Trio die I used on my place cards and candles and scraps of Core’dinations glittered paper, made and glued on a jute bow at the stem, and glued to the cone. Done and done!

Haven’t decided yet what I’m going to fill them with…thinking a mix of seasonal chocolates and spiced nuts or garlic pretzels….

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Embossed and Glittered Oak Leaf Banner

Today I'm sharing a project I did for a guest post over at A Glimpse Inside last week. It was actually this project that started me off on my glittery Thanksgiving frenzy!

In case I haven't mentioned that it's exactly ONE WEEK til my son comes home from college, I want to make this year extra special since it will be a first Thanksgiving of sorts. It finally hit me that it's been almost four months since we've seen him. I know. I'm a WIMP.  He won’t care about the decorations but I think he will care that I wanted to make it extra special. Today I’m sharing a banner I made for our dining room.

I love all things paper ( OK really, what craft supply don't I love?!) and got the idea to do an oak leaf banner.  I cut the leaves on my Cricut Expression but decided they needed some texture. I grabbed a textured stamp from my stamp supply, inked it up with clear embossing ink and  covered them with detailed silver embossing powder:

I also knew I wanted this to have some sparkle and needed an excuse, er um a compelling reason to play with tinsel glitter. The beginning of the end! I'm hooked.

I cut out more leaf shapes, and covered them with champagne tinsel glitter. I used Recollections brand from Michaels.

But what are oak leaves without acorns? Using the same Cricut cartridge ( Doodlecharms) , I cut acorns from metallic gold paper and then went over the caps with copper glitter glue:

The final piece of my banner was this organza tulle I found at JoAnn’s in their 2 for $5 section. Oh my they have got several gorgeous colors, many of  which I may or may not have bought. Just sayin'

To put it all together, I took a couple of the embossed leaves, a plain leaf, and a tinsel glittered leaf and formed a “clump” of leaves. I covered clothes pins ( my favorite way to hang banners) with some glittered paper scraps and then put my acorns on top using a foam dot.

I twisted two colors of the organza tulle together and draped over two framed prints in our dining room and then clipped my oak clusters on. Photos aren't great. One of my 2012 goals is to get better at photographing things where glare is involved. 

I think this will really twinkle in the candlelight of our Thanksgiving meal, along with some of the other glittery Thanksgiving decor.

One week. From TODAY! Not that I'm counting.

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BFF Open House Link Party #28 Wrap Up and Features

Thanks to everyone who linked up to Friday’s BFF Open House. I hope you all enjoyed meeting Caroline from c.w. frosting. As always there were some wonderful ideas and here are just a few that caught my eye:

Check out this fantastic black and white bathroom from stylebaggage, complete with a chalkboard painted wall!

With the holidays approaching, I’m always looking for easy but special handmade gift ideas. This is a great one from greenbean’s crafterole: Sugar Body Scrub

SUPER easy to make and love the presentation too!

Speaking of sugar, these bring back childhood memories of a classic sweet treat:

Hostess Cupcake cakeballs! Right down to the signature Hostess frosting squiggle! Go visit Chef In Training ( I think she’s waaaaaaaay past the training stage) to find out how to make.

And finally, I couldn’t resist this idea. Boo Boo Bear! Who says first aid can’t be absolutely adorable?

Go and visit A Creative Princess to find out how to make these reusable cold packs. What boo boo wouldn’t feel instantly better with one of these?

Thanks everyone! Hope to see you all again Friday and have a creative week!

Quick Book Page Leaves and Thanksgiving Decor

I first started decorating for Thanksgiving when my son was in pre-school. We were in a store right after Halloween and the Christmas stuff was up and he said “What about Thanksgiving?” and then went on to opine about how Thanksgiving was getting short changed and having a very strong opinion about that. I understood I wasn’t going to hear the end of it if I didn’t decorate especially since "Mr. Too Smart For His Own Good and My Sanity" also pointed out that I had no excuse since I made all that crafty stuff. At. Four. Years. Old.

What’s that got to do with this post? Who knows. I just thought I’d share some of my Thanksgiving décor to which I added some last minute ( like 30 minutes before leaving to go see a movie last minute) easy leaves I made to hang on some curly willow I keep on my mantle.

I just cut some leaf shapes freehand from some dictionary pages; smudged some distress inks ( Ranger) over them ( actually distressed the paper first, then cut the shapes with a decorative edge scissors) added copper eyelets and twisted some copper wire on.

This sits in a vase on my mantle that I switch out seasonally. ( Dollar store vase and candlestick) .

I left the tulle I draped over a table in my living room for Halloween along with a couple of glass pumpkins and added some Thanksgiving accents:

One of the turkey’s I made over this year

"Mr. Smarty Pants Four Year Old" is now a Freshman in College and coming home for Thanksgiving in 9 days ( not that I’m counting) so I made a little extra something for his room:

Cut the pennant shapes old school ( a ruler!) but the rest using my Cricut Expression ( Doodletype and Sentimentals carts) and chose an owl accent since they’re so wise and smart…like a certain former four year old I know.

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BFF Open House Link Party#28 and BFF c.w. frosting

Happy Friday Eve everyone! It’s once again time for the weekly Open House Blog Feature Friday link party here at The Answer Is Chocolate. To new guests at the Open House and to those who drop by regularly, welcome.

This week let me introduce you to Caroline from the blog c.w. frosting. You might remember her from the Wrap Up and Features from last week’s party. She’s the creator of this amazing bicycle wreath:

She’s got some other brilliant creations and can you believe that she whips these up while preparing to become a med student?!

Love these rufflekins that would be great on a Thanksgiving table:

I especially love that they’re no sew!

Also no sew, and perfect for this time of year when we have things like gift cards to present, are these wonderful felt envelopes:

Definitely going to make some of these! Caroline’s got great tutorials for all of her projects but in addition to that, she is a blogger’s best friend because she also shares her technical talents on a section of her blog called “Design Lab”. There you can find things like really cool social media icons that Caroline’s made available for use and tutorials on things like how to use these cool drop caps:

 

Definitely need to learn this! So go visit Caroline and make sure to let her know you stopped by!
OK now you know the rules right? If you made it link it. Please link to your specific blog post and not your main page and no advertising or shops etc. Other than that, Party On!

Core’dinated Thanksgiving Candles

I’ve done several projects with the plain prayer candles from The Dollar Tree and since I bought a case of them last year, I still had a couple in my stash, so I decided to alter a couple to coordinate with my place cards.

I used the same papers , and Memory Box diecut from my place cards along with a few other embellishments:

KandCo paper, Core’dinations glitter paper, Jolee’s Boutique acorn and pinecone stickers, Studio G rhinestone strips I picked up at Michaels after Christmas last year 50% off.

Mod Podged the papers onto the candles and then went around the top and bottom of the papers with velvet ribbon from my stash. Cut out the leaves using my Epic 6, and hot glued them on top of the ribbon. Finished with one of the pinecone dimensional stickers and two strips of the rhinestones on each candle.

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