Quick Easter Basket Tags

Quick Easter basket tags #ctmh #closetomyheart #easter #crafting #diy #tags #cricut #decor

With April a skip and a hop away, it’s time to start thinking about Easter crafting! One fun project is to make cute name tags for your family’s baskets—and with our Cricut® collections, you can get adorable tags in a jiffy!

The daffodils, banners, and letters on these tags come from the latest of our Cricut® collections—Flower Market. The tag bases themselves comes from our Cricut® Artistry collection, which is filled with lots of other basic shapes for crafting. Combine the two collections, and you get a whole new world of possibilities!

Quick Easter basket tags #ctmh #closetomyheart #easter #crafting #diy #tags #cricut #decorYou can see how we layered these pieces on top of each other to create a tag with dimension. To finish the tag, simply punch a hole in the top, add some ribbon, and tie it to an Easter basket.

This quick project adds a personal touch to your Easter baskets, and you can use the tags time and time again!

What Easter crafts do you want to try out this year? Tell us in the comments below!

Recipe

Easter Name Tags
1385 White Daisy Cardstock, X5772 Canary Cardstock, X5770 Glacier Cardstock, X5773 Pixie Cardstock, X5639 Sweet Leaf Cardstock, 1388 Colonial White Cardstock, Z1263 Bitty Sparkles, Z3274 Clear Sparkles, Z3189 White & Gold Ribbon, Z3167 Cricut® Artistry Collection, Z3285 Cricut® Flower Market Collection

Cricut® Shapes:
Artistry
2 ¾” Shape <Holiday> (cut 3, p. 47)
2 ½” Shape <Holiday> (cut 3, p. 47)

Flower Market
1″ Flower-1 <Daffodil> (cut 3, p. 44)
½” Shift+Flower-1 <Daffodil> (cut 3, p. 44)
2 ¾” Flower-2 <Daffodil> (cut 3, p. 44)
1 ¼” Shift+Title <Succulnt> (cut 3, p. 40)
½” <font> “ANNA JACK HALEY”

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Free Thanksgiving Printables!

Free Thanksgiving printables for your dinner table! #closetomyheart #ctmh #thanksgiving #placesetting #dinnertable #dinnerparty #namecards

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, but it’s certainly not too late to add some personal touches to your dinner plans.

Last year we created three free printables for you to use at your Thanksgiving feast:

Dinner Party Thank You Card
Dinner Party Children Conversation Starters
Dinner Party Adult Conversation Starters

These printables are generic enough to use year-round, but they’re also really fun for your Thanksgiving dinner.

You can see a fun way to use the conversation starters in the paper pumpkin above. To create the pumpkin itself, we cut 12 pumpkin shapes from our Cricut® Artistry collection, folded them in half, and attached them together to create an accordion effect. Then we looped some Fern ribbon together, tied it together with Fern twine, and attached it to the top with glue.

Free Thanksgiving printables for your dinner table! #closetomyheart #ctmh #thanksgiving #placesetting #dinnertable #dinnerparty #namecards

We also have this dinner party thank you card. Again, it’s generic enough to use for any formal dinner party, but it adds a beautiful, personal touch to your Thanksgiving place settings.

We hope these printables make your Thanksgiving one to remember! Click on the links below to download and print these free printables!

Download Dinner Party Adult Conversation Starters
Download Dinner Party Children Conversation Starters
Download Dinner Party Thank You Card

Tell us in the comments below how you like to personalize your place settings. The more ideas we share with each other, the better!

Recipes

3″ 3-D Pumpkin
X7211B Jeepers Creepers Paper Packet, X7212B Swan Lake Paper Packet, X5777 Fern Cardstock, Z3288 Enchantment Ribbon Pack, Z3247 Simple Chevron Embossing Folder, Z3190 Cricut® Artistry Collection, Z3285 Cricut® Flower Market Collection, Embossing Machine, Calligraphy Pen

Cricut® Shapes:
Artistry
3 1/2″ Icon-2 <Hlloween> (cut 12, p. 43)

Flower Market
1 1/2″ Shift+Flower-2 <O> (cut 2, p. 19)

Thank You Card
X7211B Jeepers Creepers Paper Packet, X7212B Swan Lake Paper Packet, 1385 White Daisy Cardstock, 1243 Goldrush Cardstock, Z3288 Enchantment Ribbon Pack, Z2445 ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ Barely Beige Marker, Z2452 ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ Golden Yellow Marker, Z2467 ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ Warm Grey 4 Marker, Z2457 ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ Marigold Marker, Z2060 Thin 3-D Foam Tape, Z3169 Cricut® Artbooking Collection, Calligraphy Pen, Hole Punch

Cricut® Shapes:
Artbooking
2″ Icon <b> (p. 72)
2″ Shift+Icon <B> (p. 72)
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New Thin Cuts!

We’ve just launched four new sets of our exclusive Thin Cuts metal dies! These new Thin Cuts coordinate with four stamp sets in our Annual Inspirations idea book: My Acrylix® School Kids, My Acrylix® Wreath, My Acrylix® Sweet Birthday, and My Acrylix® Swirly Seashells.

The great thing about our Thin Cuts is that they save you so much time—no more fussy-cutting! They also make it SO much easier to cut duplicates of the same shape.

Here is some artwork to show you what we mean.

Use our new Thin Cuts metal dies to easily cut shapes for your stamp sets! #ctmh #closetomyheart #ctmhthincuts #diecutting #scrapbooking #cardmaking #teacher #classroom

Adorable, right? We absolutely love our My Acrylix® School Kids stamp set, and with the new coordinating Thin Cuts, you can make lots of these cute little kiddos in no time. Don’t they just make the most adorable student name cards?

Use our new Thin Cuts metal dies to easily cut shapes for your stamp sets! #ctmh #closetomyheart #ctmhthincuts #diecutting #scrapbooking #cardmaking #teacher #classroom

If you’re a teacher, these Thin Cuts could give you a fast way to decorate name cards, cubbies, and more. You can color in your students’ miniature look-alikes—or get your students in on the fun!

Use our new Thin Cuts metal dies to easily cut shapes for your stamp sets! #ctmh #closetomyheart #ctmhthincuts #diecutting #scrapbooking #cardmaking #beach #ocean

Creating duplicates of the same shapes also comes in handy when you want to really deck out a scrapbooking page. Here we used the Swirly Seashells Thin Cuts to make all these little seashells. Since we didn’t need to spend nearly as much time trimming out the seashells, we had more time to add beautiful watercolor details to them instead.

We’ve shown you artwork made using two of the four new Thin Cuts sets, and given you just a small taste of the possibilities! Check out our promotions page to learn more about this limited-time offer!

Recipes

School Name Tags
D1706 My Acrylix® School Kids, E1030 My Acrylix® Handwritten Print, Z3255 Whimsy Fundamentals, 1385 White Daisy Cardstock, Z3271 Archival Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Z3216 White Twine, Z3274 Clear Sparkles, Z1263 Bitty Sparkles, Z3132 Watercolor Paints, Z3188 Paintbrush SetCC1158 Thin Cuts—School Kids

12″ x 12″ Seashells Page
C1664 My Acrylix® Swirly Seashells, Z3255 Whimsy Fundamentals, 1385 White Daisy Cardstock, X5788 Raspberry Cardstock, Z3237 White Glitter Paper, Z2506 Adventure Exclusive Inks™ Mini Pigment Pads Set, Z2507 Sea Glass Exclusive Inks™ Mini Pigment Pad, Z2503 Basics Exclusive Inks™ Mini Pigment Pads Set, Z891 VersaMark™ Ink Pad, Z3274 Clear Sparkles, Z1263 Bitty Sparkles, Z3132 Watercolor Paints,Z3188 Paintbrush SetZ2066 Ranger™ Princess Gold Embossing Powder, Z2088 Ranger™ Clear Super Fine Embossing Powder, Z555 Craft HeaterCC1155 Thin Cuts—Swirly Seashells, Z3167 Cricut® Artistry Collection, Thread

Cricut® Shapes:
Artistry
3 ¾” Shift+Icon-1 <Z> (cut 2, p. 31)
4″ Shift+Icon-1 <Z> (p. 31)
1″ font <Seashells Seashore>
¾” font <by the>

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Who Wants to Be a Weekly Winner?

If you’ve kept up with us on Facebook and Instagram, you know all about Jeanette’s Weekly Creative Challenges. January shaped up to be a whole lot of fun for everyone who participated—and we’re just getting started!

Remember that you can join us each Monday for the challenge announcement. You have until midnight the following Sunday to submit your creation. For more information on all the fun and games, check out Jeanette’s original announcement.

Ready to play? Here’s this week’s challenge from Jeanette herself:

For the week of February 2, my challenge to all of you is to journal on this topic: What is the reason you were given your name? Include your journaling on a page with a self-portrait.

I first gave the challenge to Chief Communications Officer Monica Wihongi, who created this fun page.

Monica's Name Layout

I love Monica’s story and look forward to reading yours as well. Be sure to post a picture of your finished page and tag it with the hashtag #jrlcreativechallenge on Instagram or Facebook for a chance to win. The deadline for this week’s submissions is Sunday, February 8 at midnight.

Happy creating!

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