Cutie Pie Thinlet Archives - Inkspired Treasures

Hi! Welcome to the Control Freaks “Tour the Freaks” blog hop! You’ve probably just come from the awesome Jan Tinklenberg, didn’t you love her ideas? You can continue around the blog hop until you reach back here and complete the tour! Small group this time…only 9 stops!

Our theme for October is “Something to be thankful for…” I could think of TONS of things I’m very thankful for…my family, health, friends, a great stamping business that allows me to work from home. But…this time of year gratitude also makes me think of the Thanksgiving holiday. I only have a few truly “Thanksgiving” type of decorations that I set out. One is a set of little stuffed pilgrims and turkey that I purchased at a craft fair YEARS ago! Looking at them when I pulled out the Halloween stuff gave me the idea that I could re-create them in box form. And, I decided the Cutie Pie Framelit would be my best bet! So…here’s the family:

Aren’t they cute? All of them can be filled with candy or treats, the bottom of the box opens up! I plan on putting them on my Thanksgiving Table to go along with the Indian Corn favors I made for each plate that I featured in last month’s tour! Here they are individually.

The Boy Pilgrim:

The Girl Pilgrim:

And the Turkey:

A few details:

The Faces were punched with the 1-3/4″ Circle. Eyes with the 1/4″ circle.
The hats were made with the Boo To You witch hat.
Collars, bonnet, hair and apron were hand cut. The scallop on her collar with the 2-3/8 Scallop Circle Punch.
Turkey feet and waddle were cut from the Cutie Pie Thinlet pieces. Leaves from the Leaflet Framelits.

OK…time to move on to the next person on the tour my great friend, Mary Brown. I know you’ll enjoy her projects, too!

Woohoo! It’s time for the monthly Control Freaks Tour de Freaks blog hop! Seems like a while since I did the blog hop since I missed May due to the Hawaii Incentive Trip! Theme this month is NEW STUFF! Yeah! I can attest that I have some of that to share! You’ve probably just come from Deb Currier’s blog, love her ideas, don’t you?

Here’s my first project using the Cutie Pie Box Thinlit that I turned into a Christmas Tree box! Wouldn’t this be fun to give someone filled with treats?

I used Old Olive cardstock for the box and Chocolate Chip for the tree trunk.
The stripe pattern in the Merry Moments Designer Paper makes great “garland” for the tree and some decoration along the sides.
In between the garland are “ornaments” of Silver Sequins from the Sequin Trim.
At top is the new Star Punch from Silver Glimmer Paper and is added with a Stampin’ Dimensional to the top.
Very Merry is from And Many More stamp set and stamped with Cherry Cobbler Ink, then punched with the new Washi Tape punch.
A couple Petite Flowers punched from Real Red are added to the side with a Silver Sequin in the center.

And, of course, I needed a matching card…all using the Cutie Pie Box Thinlet, too!

The larger size is a tree FRAME with the DSP behind the opening. I used the larger box size and the additional smaller size framelits to make a tree frame. A few sequins were added for “ornaments”.
The smaller one is the framelit cut out out from the larger size and I decorated it like the box. The flower is two Petite Petals Punches from the reverse side of the stripe DSP.
Merry Christmas is from the new set, Lots of Joy, stamped in Real Red.
The 3 1/2 x 4 Smoky Slate cardstock is embossed with the Elegants Dots Folder and adhered to the 4 x 5-1/4 layer of Whisper White, then the 4-1/4 x 11 base of Real Red cardstock.
Some 1/8″ Silver Ribbon hides the seam.
The trunks are just cut pieces of Chocolate Chip cardstock.

Aren’t they cute together and would make a nice little gift set for someone special! OK…next up on the tour is Mindy Backes…I know you’ll love her projects, too!

October 2015 Tour de Freaks

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