This week the TGIF Challenges inspiration challenge is to create Place Cards and Table Settings. My holiday tradition is always to have a little bit of candy at each place setting at Thanksgiving and a small gift at each place setting at Christmas. This year I created a place card and gift in one with the Pretty Pillow Box Dies (#156321): One design for the Christmas table and one for the Thanksgiving table.
I'm going to have to do a bit of creative shopping to find gifts to fit these little Christmas boxes, one each for a 2-year old, a ten year old, two dads and two moms. Any ideas out there for me? Cash is an obvious and easy choice, but . . .
For these I used the Tidings of Christmas designer series paper (#155718) for the boxes. Be careful as you are creasing the score marks on the ends of the box--do it slowly to make sure you are folding on the actual scoreline and folding up the box. It is easier for and looks better to me to use designer series paper rather than card stock for the actual box. To use as a place card, I like to seal down the flaps on the top and one one end of the box, then tie a ribbon around it and tie the ribbon in a bow on the side that is just folded down for accessing the surprise inside. On this one I used Gray Granite 1/4" shimmer ribbon (#152463). The name plate is die cut out of Gray Granite card stock and stamped with an image from the Peaceful Cabin stamp set (#156395) using Evening Evergreen ink. The Real Red berries were die cut using a Poinsettia die (#153522) and the Soft Succulent leaves from the Forever Flourishing dies (#152714). You could also use some kind of embellishment to fancy these up--but I'll have a 2 year old at the table!
The Thanksgiving place cards will be easy to fill with either chocolate or mini candies. They were created with the Beauty of the Earth designer series paper (#155841). The ribbon is the retired Mossy Meadow braided linen trim. The place card labels were die cut out of the Pretty Pillow Box dies--the large one in Old Olive and the small one for the name out of Basic White. The leaves were die cut using the Intricate Leaves dies (#153566) out of Cajun Craze and Bumblebee.
For more holiday table ideas head over to the TGIF Challenges blog here:
Wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving with family and friends--and may your favorite football team win!!!
--Sara Nell
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