Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. Ours started early, included a nap, and now a master plan for Black Friday shopping extravaganza! These are a few photos of how I made our "little" Thanksgiving special. I made place cards and menus for each place setting. I computer generated the menu in Word and printed them out on vanilla cardstock. I left an empty space to stamp an image, then matted on orange and brown cardstocks. I added olive ribbon at the top. For the place cards, I used labels 1 nestabilities (largest, then the next size down) and folded in half. I stamped the leaf image, then cut out and popped off the cardstock. I printed out the names on orange cardstock, then inked around the edges and adhered. So easy, so simple, so special. I did this early this morning before I started cooking, so it does not take a long time. If I had many guests, then I would have probably started last weekend!

Enjoy the remainder of your Thanksgiving and as always...be grateful!

EDITED TO ADD:

How to create a dinner menu:

I used Edwardian Script ITC for the cursive text and Perpetua Titling MT for the all caps text. I used a template created for my menus at my wedding reception, but it is easy to create your own. Simply open a Word document, type your menu, adjust your fonts and layout, then adjust your page settings for the size of menu you would like to create. My page settings were 3.5" x 8.5", then I trimmed it down slightly after printing.

Stamp set used is by Papertrey Ink-First Fruits and ideas were inspired by Papertrey Ink Design Team Challenge-Thanksgiving Place Settings (THANKS)!