Serendipity Stamps Thanksgiving Invitation

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Who's hosting the Thanksgiving dinner in your family?  If it's you, I know you will want to check out todays projects posted by the Serendipity Stamps Design Team because it is all about Thanksgiving dinner.  You are going to see invitations, place cards, napkin rings...all the cute and crafty touches that will make your Thanksgiving table one your family will really remember.

Before I show you my projects, here is the little history of recent Thanksgivings in the Weber family.  I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner for our extended family of about 25 people every single year for at least the past 15 years.  For a variety of reasons, (mostly because of all the work involved) once it became too much for my mom to do, if we wanted to have a big dinner, it was me that was going to have to cook it.   I have made many, many invitations and place cards throughout the years, but wouldn't you know it, the one year I have an assignment to share an invitation...my niece and nephew have decided they would like to cook the dinner in their new home.  Great news for me, no cooking, but it also means no invitation to make this year.  Instead, I made a Thanksgiving card which could easily have the invitation details printed inside should you want to add them.  Enough talking, here's what I made:

 I made a card and a pillow box favor to match.

 I used Serendipity Stamps (Quail), one of their new Fall/Winter stamps.  The image is embossed and I used Spellbinder rectangle dies to create a double mat.  The sentiment is also from Serendipity
 (Be Thankful).  The card front is edged with a Martha Stewart punch and the front is popped up with dimensional foam.  Those of you that know me will notice that I tied a bow...I know!  Me.  Tying a bow!  I even added a few punched pine branches and a rose, something I very rarely do, but thought it really added to the elegance of those beautiful quail.

I also made a pillow box favor, again stamped with the quail and tied with a ribbon and rose. The pillow box was so easy to make, it is a die from PTI (thanks Joyce for sending me the pillow box die cuts) and would look great as either a candy or nut-filled favor, or it could also serve as a place card.

Another idea would be to open one end and use it to hold the silverware for each place setting.

Even though I admit I am happy to finally get to enjoy being a guest this year, I am definitely going to store these ideas away until next year when I am sure by then my niece and nephew will have discovered the hard way that Thanksgiving dinner is a lot of work!

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Ready to see more ideas for your Thanksgiving dinner?  Here's the list of my very talented Design Team friends.  I am sure you are going to see lots of great projects made with Serendipity Stamps that will make your Thanksgiving dinner one you will never forget.

Jeanne Jachna

Amy Cokley

Miriam Napier

Sue Eldred

Jenny Gropp

Pauline Pollington

Helen Berry