Cooking with Cricut Give Thanks Blog Hop

Welcome to the Broken Treasures and the Cooking with Cricut Blog Hop!  If you are coming from Cooking with Cricut than you are in the right place.  Our theme for this hop is Give Thanks!  We are giving you some different ideas for decorating your Thanksgiving table.

I made some napkin rings using the Art Philosophy cartridge and stamping the images using the Thanksgiving stamp set.

I made some of the napkin rings into turkeys.  First I cut out scalloped circles using the Art Philosophy Cartridge.  Then cut them in half to make the turkey "feathers".

Then I cut out turkey shapes from Kraft Cardstock.

 Then I glued the body onto the "feathers" and glued the whole thing onto "ring" that I made from a paper roll covered with cardstock.

We store them all in the Gratitude Box.

I'm giving the whole box set to my mother (who I am forever grateful for) and so I'm linking this project with the challenge from Heart to Heart this week.

Here is a candle ring I made using the Art Philosophy cartridge to cut the flowers.  Some of the flowers were made from book pages others from cardstock.

First I measured my candle stand and wrapped some wire filled twine around it twice.  Then I cut the wire and twisted it to secure it in a circle shape. 

Then I set it over the candle to make sure it would fit

Next I cut out the roses at 3 inches, inked them in autumn colors and rolled them - securing them with glue. Once they were all rolled, I started gluing them (using a hot glue gun) to the wire base along with some green silk hydrangeas and orange berries.  

All told I used 12 roses for the finished ring.  These would also look super cute tied with a ribbon on a window as a mini wreath.

Here is my Thanksgiving table - burlap with paper turkeys, pumpkins, and some berries.

And some super simple and super cute paper pumpkins with initials (cut out with the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge) for our place settings - I added the leaf using 1/4 of a petal from the green silk hydrangea.

Gratitude is something I need to practice every day but am especially thankful for this time of year when it is a constant reminder all around me!  I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones :)

Yes, I have blog candy (and there is some more great "candy" along the hop :) )

This double stamp set from Close To My Heart (value of $32.50). . .
You will find a ton of amazing cards done using this stamp set in this facebook album.

How can you win this?

1. Be a follower of my blog and leave a comment what is your favorite part about Thanksgiving?
2. Like my facebook page and leave a comment there telling me what your favorite Thanksgiving tradition is.
3. Check out Close To My Heart Stamps and leave a comment telling me which set is your favorite

Winner will be chosen with random.org next Saturday and posted on Monday, November 28th.  Don't forget to come back and see if you are the winner :)  I've had several winners lately who are missing out because they are not contacting me!

Now it's your turn! Link up your Thanksgiving project at CookingWithCricut.com. Here are a few guidelines:

• Must follow the challenge topic and use one of the free files provided at CWC.
• Must be a NEW project for this challenge. No back dated posts please.
• Must have a link back to this post on your blog.
• Must link your project post through Inlinkz and not just your blog.
• Must use your Cricut in some capacity.
• Must HAVE FUN!
• You may gladly combine challenges . . . we love to pile it on TOO!

The Design Team will pick their three favorites and one lucky person will be chosen randomly to win one of the prizes being offered in this hop. There is also a prize for just leaving us a comment on the CWC blog. One catch, those leaving comments MUST be a CWC follower. Each prize winner will receive a $10 gift voucher-download from PaperCraftingWorld.com.


Now hop on over to Celeste to see some more beautiful Thanksgiving decorations :) that she has created!

You'll find my tutorials Here:
Turkeys
Paper Pumpkins
Cornucopia

For more information about my  3-day Thanksgiving Sale see post here.

Linking with Cure for the Common Monday, Get your Craft on, Making the World Cuter, Show off your stuff, Creative Me Monday

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