Various Thanksgiving Projects

This post shows some of the items I had made for Thanksgiving but was not able to post them. I made them in October and so here they are:

These are the bag fronts I made. This is a photo to show some of the treat holders I had made:

Made a treat holder using a small kraft envelope and made a rosette for the front of that. Then I used the ScrapDivaDesigns Kiss holder die to hold Hershey kisses. Made a mini Post It Note holder. Also made a holder for Hershey nugget candies - spelled out Thankful or Grateful and I used a stamp set I picked up at Ollie's for a dollar for the letters:

Here is a photo of some of the nugget holders:

Fun Thanksgiving projects! Happy to add the Kisses die set to the stash as I am sure that die set will get lots of use - esp with Valentine's Day up and coming......

Lunch Bag Hot Cocoa Treat Holder

Used lunch bags from the Dollar Tree I had in my stash for this treat holder. The grocery store had the Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa packets on sale this week so I used them for this treat holder. I also used various card stocks from the stash for my bags. I had seen this treat holder made long ago using lunch bags on YouTube and there are a lot of crafters that have made them up and they are easy to assemble and decorate. Here is a photo of one of my lunch bag treat holders:

All these bags measure differently so when I was cutting my printed card stocks I did one bag at a time - I cut the full back piece, the front piece, and then the pocket piece. I put the printed card stocks onto the bags using liquid glue. To make the pocket using the bottom of the bag I used hot glue for that. I added a doily from the stash for the front of the bag. In the pockets I put some chocolates and a candy cane. Inside the bag are two packs of the Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa packs. I used various ribbons from the stash and tied that around the pocket and tied a bow. Used hot glue under the bow to keep it in place and tied. For the greeting on the bags:

The greeting I had hot foiled earlier this year when I hot foiled all my holiday greetings and sorted those for use on projects this year:

I keep the holiday sentiments in small boxes and I sort them by whatever colour foil they are. These sentiment strips have been used on my Christmas cards this year as well as on projects I am making for Christmas so a time saver for sure to have these already foiled, die cut, and sorted. 

I put the hot cocoa treat holders into zip lock bags I had in my stash and they are ready to go - here are more of these I made:

Here is a photo to show the card stock I put on the back of the lunch bag - all the bags have a different print - and this extra card stock makes the cheaper lunch bag more sturdy:

Easy project to put together and there are a lot of versions done of these on YouTube. Just do not expect perfection with using these lunch bags as they are not put together perfectly so they could be different sizes in your pack. 

Nugget Candy Carrier Treat Holder

Used the Candy Carrier die set from Divinity Designs to make the carrier for 6 Hershey Nuggets for my treat holders:

 The die set has the carrier pieces as well as a small tag die so you can make your carrier, wrap your chocolate nugget candies, and make a tag with only this one die set! Here is a photo of some of the carriers I made:

This die set has a die to cut all the wrappers for the nuggets but I just used my trimmer and cut all my wrappers from scrap card stocks from the stash. Here are photos of each of these carriers:

I used a "Merry Christmas" stamp from the Taylored Expressions stamp set "Itty Bitty Sentiments - Holiday" and I stamped this with red ink. Once dried I used the tag die in the die set and cut out the greeting and tied them onto the holders using red and white twine from the stash. Here is a photo to show these packaged:

Easy carrier to assemble and great use for scrap card stocks since it is not very big and the scraps were also used for my nugget wrappers. Fun project!

Holiday Gift Card Holders

For my gift card holders this year I decided to look through the stash and see what dies I had that I could use for the gift cards I needed to make. I decided to use the My Creative Time "Fancy Gift Card Holder Die" for the gift card holders. Then I wanted to have a tree on the front of this gift card holder and first I thought I would use scrap printed card stocks for that but then decided to use my holiday washi tapes instead. Looked through my holiday die sets and found a tree die that would fit on the front of the gift card holder so I would know how many rows of washi tape I would need to make a tree....

For the card stock for the gift card holders I decided on kraft card stock. Then for the washi tapes I decided to keep the gift cards more traditional for the holidays so red and green it was..... I cut a piece of cream card stock in half and this would be the base for the washi tapes. I stacked the rolls in the order I would put them onto the cream card stock and I put liquid glue onto the cream card stock covering about 2". Then I began laying down the washi tapes onto this base, adding glue as I added more rows of the washi tape. I laid the tree die on the rows so I would know how many rows I would need for the amount of trees I would need. I used mostly traditional washi tapes but at the bottom I used some thinner washi tapes I have in the stash that have gold on them. For those I stacked them on the bottom of the cream card stock base. Here is a photo after I glued and laid down all the washi tape rolls before I set it aside to dry:

For the traditional washi tapes at the top I used tapes that did not have a directional pattern so I could get as many trees cut out as I could by die cutting the tree right side up and then next to that one a tree that was cut upside down. Running the tapes through the die cutting machine to cut out the trees also pressed the tapes into the glue so I should not have any edges lifting. Here is a photo of one of the gift card holders done:

The gift card holder die set comes with a rectangle frame die for the front of the holder and I used cream card stock for my panel. Using scissors I cut out a trunk for my trees using scrap brown card stock. I used an old star punch to punch out a gold star for the top of the tree. I used liquid glue to assemble the tree, trunk, and star and to put this onto the cream panel on the holder. Here is a photo to show how the gift card sits inside this holder:

with a sample card inside:

Here is a photo of more of the gift card holders:

Wanted a small greeting at the top of the holder so I went through the holiday stamps and I used an older stamp set from MyFavoriteThings (MFT Stamps) and stamped the "Be Merry" onto cream card stock using red ink and then punched that out. Used liquid glue to put that on the top of the holder. Easy holder to put together and decorate using holiday washi tapes and a tree die. All that is needed is some bling for the front panel near the trees.....