Hostess Thank You Gift

Around this time of the year, I like to be a proactive and not only start tackling my holiday projects, but also put some thank you gifts together for the hostesses of parties I’ll be attending.

There are typically three or four annual parties and I like to put together a couple of extra last-minute gifts for any occasions that may pop up.

When I first spotted The Cutting Files designed Mari Koegelenberg, I immediately gravitated to the Gift Baskets file.

Mari’s templates come in AI, GSD, DXF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, PSD and SVG Formats.

I thought it might be fun to add a plant or flower arrangement and came up with this.

This is what you will need to make one of your own:

Gift Baskets from The Cutting Files designed by Mari Koegelenberg
A piece of patterned paper (I used My Mind’s Eye Stomp Big Attitude Plaid Sky Paper)
A piece of coordinating card stock
Double-sided tape
Styrofoam glue
Ribbon
Twine
Styrofoam
Ruler
Bone Folder
Spellinders Die (I used Labels 5)
Stamp image and sentiment ( I used Gina K. Stamps Fanciful Fall designed by Theresa Momber)
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Copics
Dried Flower or Fall Arrangement (I used a dried Wheat bundle)

Ready to get started? Here we go:

Step 1: Print out the basket of your choice (you actually get three different styles when you purchase this file) onto a piece of card stock and then again onto a piece of patterned paper. Cut out the baskets using your cutting machine or as I did here, with scissors.

Step 2: Adhere the baskets together, make sure you leave markings showing on one of pieces so you will know where to score.

Step 3: Align your ruler on each tab and with your Bone Folder make solid, deep score lines from one dash to the other. Do this to all sides and turn your basket over.

Step 4: Add double-sided tape to all tabs, peel them and put basket together.

Step 5: Adhere a strip of ribbon around basket, securing with double sided tape, and tie a bow on the front of basket

Step 6: Set basket aside to work on your tag. Stamp image and sentiment, for my tag I stamped the sentiment inside the image.

Step 7: Color image and cut out with a die, I used Spellbinders Labels 5.

Step 8: Adhere a piece of Styrofoam to the bottom and put your flower arrangement together. I used Styrofoam glue to ensure adherence.

Step 9: Tie tag around arrangement with some twine and with that you are done!

Here’s a photo of the finished project again.

Hostess Thank You Gift

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