Canuckian Crafting

We gave away bags filled with yummies at a Thanksgiving dinner we had at our church. I made these tags to go with them: We made 40 of the bags and 60 people showed up to share in the feast. And it was like the fish and the loaves. We expected 40/50 and enough food for 80 people showed up and we were able to feed another group the next day. SVG of the Canadian Thanksgiving tag MTC of the Canadian Thankgiving tag

You will need: Paper (pretty paper is essential) digital cutter (I have a zing but anything that takes an SVG file is great) laminator ( I am using a hot laminator which makes laminating just part of the project at a time easier) baby buttons and applicator (these are the snaps that you put on baby diapers)  2 tiny brads Lately I have been trying to memorize verses of scripture on my walks and I am making a box for all the ones I have memorized so that I can keep track and keep them fresh. I am going to resurrect a file from last year and see if I can remember how to put it together. I made this version last year for a group of ladies in an AA group. The front of the tiny index cards had a motivational saying that came from different AA pinterest boards and then the back had a verse from the bible that supported it or was in a similar vein. I included the files for these below (as well just in case you can use them). So I wanted to pick some awesome paper. ...

I have a friend who was asking for a commercial oven for her birthday. Umm, I love you my dear, but my budget doesn't stretch that far. So I made her this and put a Starbucks gift card in it for her *addiction. I think to put the box together is fairly simple. Here is a diagram of where you glue.  The front of the oven tucks into the rest of the box. The control panel is attached by gluing the tiny tab to the top of the stove and then gluing the larger tab on the back of the oven. If you want you could also make a muffin holder, but I think with the standard sized muffins you would have to make the oven deeper to fit the cupcake in. Here are the files: SVG for the box, handle, oven mitt, burners SVG for pretty paper to cover box MTC file for whole project

These were quite fun to put together. As usual I didn't take a picture of the final project but what I really wanted to show you today is how to make the tassel. In order to make the tassel, you are going to start with 16 lengths of whatever string you are using. If you want a thicker tassel, use more lengths. Here I used kitchen twine. So the length of each piece of twine should be length of twine= (the length you want for the tassel)*2 + about 5" for the knot.  We are going to be following this knot type (it is called the Josephine knot): So here is what it looks like when you are doing it with a group of strings as opposed to just one. So to start you will split the pieces of twine into two piles (group A is the top one and group B is the bottom one): Then you will make a loop with group B: Then you will put group A under both parts of the loop of group B.  Then group A will go over top the right tail of group B. Then group A will go underneat...

I can't believe that I forgot to take pictures of my very cool Toronto Maple Leafs birthday card. So I am going to give you an idea of what it looks like. Here is the front: The next part is a pop up with the Stanley Cup. I cut the Stanley Cup out of silver cardstock that I had, and included this phrase: "Is for the Maple Leafs to win the Stanley Cup" The last pop up page is a pop up of the picture of the titanic sinking and the phrase: "But we fear that they are too much like the titanic, they look great until they hit the ice. Files:   Front of card (SVG file)   First pop up of Stanley cup (SVG file)   Second pop of of Titanic (SVG file)   Project in MTC (MTC file)  I'm not exactly sure what files people want and how much detail to put in them. So if you have any suggestions please comment below.   

This is a fun gift card holder with a starbucks front. The font is Babes in Toyland. There are two side flaps that get glued onto one another and then the bottom flap goes on top of those (to allow the gift card insert to insert and remove easily) Files: SVG of the gift card holder MTC file of the gift card holder

I made this very awesome card for my husband for his birthday. The front of the card looks like this:  For those of you who are not pokemon-literate, this is an Onix. So the front says "Have an Onix-pected birthday". The font is pocket monk (if you need to change the words). The key to the pokemon alphabet is that the vowels are small letters and are on tope of the letters around them. So the colours of the letters are: yellow (255,203,0), dark blue (0,58,146), and light blue (129,200,254). Outline each of the yellow letters individually in the dark blue and then make the dark blue outline around the vowels go above the yellow of the letters around it. Here is the SVG of the front: SVG of the front of the card This is the inside of the card. It is a stacked block pop up card. So print out the card to show the pokemon go background and then cut it out. Here is the SVG: SVG of the inside of the card This is the cool part. Each of these blocks in the p...

MTC file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxY0fZP9AEREY0VIUEtlNkp5N1U/edit?usp=sharing SVG file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxY0fZP9AEREbWRjZjIta0NuSnc/edit?usp=sharing You will need to add flowers.

MTC File: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxY0fZP9AEREdHJEU0dKMUs5UlU/edit?usp=sharing SVG Files: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxY0fZP9AERESlpkbjh3NE84RXc/edit?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxY0fZP9AEREdndVMWpzMUptLVU/edit?usp=sharing