Harvest Meal – Pine Cone Turkey Train

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Gobble gobble choo choo~~~ Here comes the pine cone turkey train!

I’ve made seven of these turkey train sets for Thanksgiving lunch at my kids school today.

Wobble Gobble

Pipe cleaners for the train wheels.

Cut felts for beaks and wattles and attach it to the pine cones using the hot glue gun.

Using the train tracks as a guide, glue the wheels.

Attach googly eyes.

Pretty turkey trains =)

I wanted to put the train tracks on top of round hay bale. I tried to make them myself, and failed miserably.

So, I decided to cut the circles from cardboard boxes (you can use cake rounds), and made pans with burlap and hot glue. And filled it with hay instead of making the bale. So much quicker to make it.

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Peppy Tinheart Cake Topper

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PWCO is turning three. Woohoo! To celebrate this joyous occasion, I wanted to make a party related item for this post.

Peppy Tinheart on a lollipop stick is a perfect way to decorate a cupcake or cake. I didn’t get a chance to buy a cake (boohoo!), so I stick it in the box that I made for RAM XMAS release. =)

Stamp Peppy Tinheart on different color cardstocks for paper-tole technique. Then, cut.

Apply dimensional adhesive on the base layer of Peppy Tinheart.
Insert a wire on top of the lollipop stick to attach the flowers.

Multiple layers of cut pieces add dimension to this robot cutie.

Stamp: Peppy Tinheart
Coloring: Sakura Glaze Gelly Roll Pens
Other: Rhinestones

Ribbon Cupcakes

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OMG~! Has it been a month already!

It is the time to pass my Amber Ink torch to a fabulous card maker, Emily! I drool over ALL her creations. I’m always amazed with her awesome cards and wish that I could be as artistic as her! So glad to call her my friend.

Here is how I made the cupcake covers.

I used five 2″ scallop circles and one 2″ circle punch.

Score to make three sides. Doesn’t the white one look like a cupcake?

Put glue on two side tabs.

Attach it together.

Put glue on the bottom tabs.

Attach the circle.

Roll the ribbons around and put it in the cup.

iPaper: Schoolgirl Plaid – Picnic Gingham: Tiny
Digi stamps: Cutie Pie: Little Things
Coloring: Copic markers

A cute way to package ribbons!

MANY MANY thanks to Wendy who passed her torch to me, and to Amber and Pam for giving me a wonderful time at the Amber Ink! And EMILY for carrying the next one!

Party Princess

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Nope. I didn’t create this party table for my daughter. It’s a mock-up using Danielle Young Designs‘ Party Princess printables. However, my 2.8 year old daughter surely enjoyed this set up. It was like her birthday party! She completely wrecked the entire thing! Hehe. She was so happy devouring all the goodies.

Template: Party Princess Party Printables by Danielle Young Designs

Do you like this Play-Doh cupcakes? Yummm… flower frosting!

It’s just cheap felt I bought from a local craft store many many years ago.
Cut felt using Sizzix Bigz Die – Spiral/Garland. Loosely roll, start from the outside. I didn’t use any glue.

Shrunk the cupcake topper to 70%. Layered it over scallop circle cut out.

This is how I made the cupcake topper using lollipop sticks.

Reduce Bottle Wrapper template to 45% to cover the mini Play-Doh.

These Hershey Kisses flower pots/holders were inspired by Pretty Visage’s flowers at Etsy.

I used six 1.5″ paper circles per flower. You can use more for different look.
Make a cone. Do this for all six petals.

Squish the center.
Unfold. Put adhesive on crease, both sides.
Fold it back to make the cone.

Attach three petals together to form the base.

Add three more petals inside the base flower/pod, alternating the cleft.

These flowers were easier and quicker to make than my snow flowers. I kept some baby wipes to clean glue off my fingers.

Bend/distress the edge with fingers.
Reduce Cupcake topper template to 35% for the Kisses’ crown. Cut it out with 3/4″ circle punch.

Party Princess Printables have bottle wrappers template.
Printed on River Linen paper from Red River Paper.

Place cards to wrap juice pouches.

Bottle wrappers for Hershey’s nuggets.

Reduce Bottle Wrapper template to 57.75%. Cut the width to 3″.

Party Princess Printables also have customizable invitation design template.

See how easily you can decorate party table with Party Princess Printables! =)

Chrysanthemum

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I made this card to participate Let’s Capture Our Memories challenge – Die Cuts. Inspired by my friend, Corinne‘s punch flower card. She is a LCOM DT and I’ve been wanting to participate their challenges ever since she joined the team.

I was trying to create a video tutorial for how to make this chrysanthemum, but it didn’t work out. I re-took “Hi, I’m going to show you how to make this flower with Sizzix, ummmm…., blah, blah, blah… ” over and over again. I didn’t think it was that hard to make the video tutorial, but it wasn’t something I could do it without practice. Mumbling in my head was easy, but saying out loud was not comfortable. I wasn’t sure I was using the right word. I thought writing for the blog was hard, but the video was even more challenging. And, I wanted to be a movie star when I was growing up! Thank goodness I didn’t pursue that dream, hehe. I have soooo much more respect for all the crafters who make video tutorial.

Die cut flowers: Sizzix Bigz Die - Flower, Daisies #2
10 small, 6 medium, 6 large flowers. You could add more layers, I just didn’t have the patience and my fingers were aching from all crumbling, hehe.
Using the cardstock papers that have different colors on each side would be pretty, too.