Christmas Tree K-Cup Holder

Need a hostess gift?  How about something small for a teacher or coach?  Choose your favorite coffees, teas, or hot chocolate, and this K-Cup holder would be perfect!

I made this using my Silhouette die cutting machine and an svg file from the “Christmas Cafe” kit from svgcuts.com.  The kit contains several projects including two boxes that would be great for cookies, nuts, or candy.  One is round, and the other is shaped like a stocking.  There are three different K-Cup holders – the Christmas tree shown above, a snowman, and a reindeer.  In addition to the svg files, there is a tutorial video to show you how the pieces go together.

On the sample shown on the website, Mary uses gold pipe cleaners for the garland.  I created a cut file to make my garland out of card stock.  (This file is not included with the kit.)

For the base of the box, I used Deep Green Card Stock from Cre8-a-Page (aka Creative Assembly & Packaging) that I ordered on amazon.  The decorative paper on the front is “Green Plaid” by Hot Off the Press/Paper Pizazz.  I used Gina K Metallic Gold card stock for the stars, garland, and trunk.  I chose these Folgers K-Cups because I liked that they were red.  Any standard sized K-cups will work.

There is a file for a decorative back panel which I did not use.  Here is a view of the back; the K-Cups are inserted through holes in the front and stick out through holes in the back.  Once in, they are kind of wedged in there and don’t really move.

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Scented Wine Glass Lamps

I have to say, I really enjoyed making these; my craft room smelled FANTASTIC!!!  These faux lamps are made with a wine glass filled with potpourri and topped with a handmade paper lampshade.

The lampshade svg file is called “Swirl Pattern Wine Glass lampshades” which was purchased on Etsy from a shop called MySVGHUT and was cut with my Silhouette.  I cut the shades from patterned paper, but the original file has a swirl pattern on it that is meant to be printed or foiled.  I also made my shades a bit bigger than the original design to better fit the glasses I was using.

The paper is from the Harvest collection by Reminisce.  The patterns I used are Autumn’s Ebb and Shades of Autumn.  I used a few foam dot squares to hold the shade in place on the glass.

I bought the wine glasses at Dollar Tree.  The potpourri is from Patricia of Mullica Hill in Haddonfield, NJ.  The scent I used for these autumn lamps is Apple Jack.  I plan to make a few Christmas lamps when their Christmas scents are available!

My original thought was to place a battery operated tea light in the glass to make accent lamps. However, the lights I had were a little too dim, and it was hard to see the light through the shade. (Believe it or not, it actually looks better in the photo below than it did in real life!)   If I knew I would be ditching the light idea, I might have used card stock to make the shades sturdier.  I plan to look for brighter, warm-colored lights to try later.

I think this would make a cute hostess gift to take when going to someone’s house for Thanksgiving dinner.

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Wine and Cheese Tile Coasters

These coasters were made with Premier Decor 4×4 Ivory Travertine tiles I purchased at Home Depot. I stamped the Wine and Cheese image from Inkadinkado and inked the edges of the tiles with Stazon Timber Brown ink. Once the ink was dry, I used a Tombow sand eraser to lightly sand the stamped images and edges to soften them up a bit.

I cut squares of cork , ran them through my Xyron sticker machine, and adhered them to the bottoms of the tiles so they would not scratch the table when used. Each set contains 4 tiles.

I had seen a tutorial for making these coasters HERE on StampTV a while back and made this design:

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A Day Without Golf… Jr. Legal Pad Cover

Here is another notepad cover design I created.

The sentiment (author unknown) is a custom made stamp from RubberStamps.net.  The image is an Art Impressions stamp called “Earl.”   I stamped the sentiment and image on white card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with Copic Markers (club and ball: C4, C2, YG97; hair: W5, W7; face: E50, E53, E71; clothes: E15, E17, E18, E19, E53, E55, E57, E59, E44, E47, E49, C4).

The cover was made with white card stock.  Then I created a decorative panel and adhered it to the front.  The plaid card stock is by 7 Gypsies from the Antiquaries Postale Collection: Post (Stock Number: 19429).  The solid card stock is Gina K Charcoal Brown, Bazzill Burning Umber, and Co’re dinations Chocolate Mousse.

The Jr. Legal Pad (5″ x 8″) was purchased at Staples.

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