The supplies are simple!

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A Cheery Winter wreath

Spunky Funky Holiday Wreath

Shades of Blue wreath

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I don’t know about you but I LOVE giving little Hershey Kisses with stickers on the bottom. I don’t know what’s wrong with me but I think that they are SUPER sweet! Using both Thanksgiving collections from Lauren McKinsey I printed out the labels on 8.5×11 sticker paper that I picked up at Walmart (10 sheets for $4.44 in the office supply/shipping section). Then I used my trusty little circle puncher (I think it’s .75″) to punch out all the tiny circles and applied them to both Caramel Kisses and Reese’s PB Cup! To make this gift a little more special I packed the kisses in a 3x3x3 clear acetate box that I had picked up from Garnish (one of my MOST favorite places to buy packing and simple party supplies) and sealed the box with a sticker from LM’s formal collection that reads “Thanks for being you” which I just love. The Reese’s PB Cups got stickered and packaged in mini white gable boxes that I also got from Garnish. I used the same sticker to finish of those boxes as well. To make them stickers I once again just printed out LM’s file onto the same sticker paper I used for the candy stickers but this time I used my #1 most used “craft” tool, my Tonic Paper Guillotine. I seriously have had this little baby for 6 years and it is WONDERFUL, it’s my BFF of craft tools! The last treat that I jazzed up so I could call it a “hip hostess gift” was simply printing out and wrapping some IKEA chocolate bars in the large candy bar wrappers in the Thanksgiving Casual set. Just print out on regular printer paper, trim with guillotine and tape to chocolate bar.

While perusing through Target for the standard boxes of chocolates and truffles that are also great to bring when you are a guest at someone’s home (and which I picked up a few to bring with us as well) I found this cute little rack of holiday scented liquid hand soaps. Now, the bottles are anything as fancy as the Bath & Body Works liquid hand soaps, the scents were just as fun. I picked up Candy Cane and Christmas Cookie for $1.79 each which is definitely nicer on the wallet than B&BW. Next, I took out my Silhouette SD and cut some monogram letters and snowflakes but you can easily get this same look by drawing it on with painters markers (which I LOVE and used to embellish the back of the soap bottles) or with stickers. On the back of the Christmas Cookies soap I used some Martha Stewart ornament stickers that I found at the craft store and just painted (with the pens) on the “ribbon” hanging down.

packaged in a cute little box I found in the Dollar Spot at Target

I hope you are able to bring some Hip Hostess gifts to whomever you may be visiting this Holiday season, even if you are just going to you parent’s house which you do all the time, make the holidays a little more bright by showing them you really do appreciate all they do!

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Over the next week I am going to share with you some of the fun hostess gifts I will be bringing with me to Florida next week!!

First up is a fun set of coasters!

When I first saw Lauren McKinsey’s sneak peek of her casual Thanksgiving collection that was featured in Giggle magazine I fell head over stiletto heals in love with the little turkey she designed for the collection. It is right up my polka-dotted loving alley! I knew that I wanted to do something fun with the turkey graphic and thought she would look very cute as a set of coasters. Custom coasters are really fun and easy (and cheap) to make.

I bundled my coasters together with a little ribbon I had laying around and as soon as I go get a magenta ink refill I will print out a cute “I am thankful for you” gift tag from the collection to attach to the tiles as well! Of course, these will be part of a little goodie bucket I am putting together…more posts to come!!

(Oh, and I might have made this cute little Tom into a t-shirt, too!)

 

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1) Trace your large cake round onto a sheet of scrapbook paper & cut out. Glue paper to your cake round (I used a good ol’ fashion glue stick)
2) Take apart your ribbon spool, cut the large round disk from the side of the spool in half, trace fronts and backs onto paper. Cut out the paper and glue the front and backs onto the half disks you created. Set aside.
3) Cut your ribbon into 6 inch strips.
4) there are 2 ways to do the next step – a) with a sewing machine & b) without.
    a) fold your ribbon in half and run it through the sewing machine, leaving about a 1/2″ tail, continue  for all ribbon pieces then cut apart the string of ribbon you have created. Take your long piece of floral wire and insert it into the center of your ribbon loop, carefully slipping the wire between your seam stitches. Cut the wire with your wire cutters or crappy scissors you don’t care about, leaving just a small piece sticking out. Add a dab of glue to keep the wire from becoming victim of gravity. Repeat with all ribbon loops.
   b) fold your ribbon in half and hold at the base leaving a 1/2″ tail. Insert long floral wire through the center of your ribbon holding with your thumb and finger. Without burning yourself (the trickiest part of all) add a small dab of hot glue to between the tail pieces, enclosing the loop and wire all at once. Trim extra wire with wire cutters or crappy scissors.

5) on the back of your cake round lay out how you want your ribbon to look, apply glue about 1/2-1″ from the edge and glue the tails of your ribbon loops down.

6) optional – glue another cake round to the back to cover up the raw edges of your ribbon – I ended up covering them up, but I sorta wish I hadn’t, it just makes the next part a little tougher.
7) for the beak, fold over a scrap of paper  and cut out a triangle – if you don’t need it to be 3D just cut out a single triangle.
8) glue a piece of large ric rac or ribbon down if you are making a tom (for the wattle) and then glue your beak on top of that. Then glue down your googly eyes.
9) get out your half disks you covered with scrapbook paper in step 2, these are going to be your turkey’s feet. Cut a slit on the round part of your disk wide enough to accommodate the width of your cake round, or double cake rounds if you sandwiched in your ribbons.
10) slip Mr. or Mrs. Turkey into the slits and adjust the angle of the “feet” until you get it to stand up on its own.
And there you have a ribbon loop turkey!

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Not too much Thanksgiving decorating going on in our house this year. We have decided to use the long weekend for a little R&R down in Hilton Head!! But, I couldn’t just let the holiday go unnoticed, that wouldn’t be {kinda} crafty, it would just be un-crafty! So I opened up my Silhouette software and starting going through my shapes and I found this little acorn I had downloaded for free a while back and thought it would be the perfect base for a Thanksgiving banner!! I also added some orange stickles around the letter for that extra glittery touch, after all, with the skies as gloomy as they have been lately everything could use a touch of glitter these days! So here is how it turned out, I noticed after I took and uploaded the pictures that they spacing with the “s” was a little off, so no worries, it’s been fixed!

And here is a little sneak peek of 2 Christmas projects I am working on. One of which will be a free download, if you like it!

 

 

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