Christmas Reindeer Treat Holders–Cricut FANatics

Hey everyone! It’s my day to post a project on Cricut FANatics and I wanted to share these treat holders with you. They are cute, easy to put together and I’ll show you different ways to use them this Christmas.

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I saw something like these several years ago made with punches and I had always wanted to make some but never got around to it. Now that I have my Cricut, I am always trying to make life a little easier by recreating projects from years ago using my Expression along with either my Gypsy or more than ever now with Cricut CraftRoom. For this project I used December 25th cart by Teresa Collins and Cricut Craft Room Basics. I love putting most (if not all) of my cardstock for a project on my cutting mat and making just one pass through my Cricut at one time. So even though there are eight different colors to make a reindeer, I only had to do two passes with my Expression.

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I used the Sweet Treat Cups from Stampin’ Up! for the reindeer noses. You get 12 cups for less than $3!

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In one nose I placed red Skittles. You can use Red Hots, red M&M’s, or anything that you’d like to use. In the other nose I used red glitter that I adhered with Glossy Accents and after it dried, I placed oats in the cup. These are to be used on Christmas Eve as “Reindeer Food”.  (Note – you may want to use red colored sugar crystals instead of glitter so as not to harm birds or other little critters)

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I did the “Reindeer Food” with my kids when they were little and they loved it! There is also a little poem that goes with it that I’ll share at the end of this post. After cutting out all of the parts of the reindeer, I inked all of the edges, added red Stickles to the holly and one of the ornaments, Glossy Accents to another ornament, popped the eyes and eyelids up with pop dots, and added the highlights to the eyes with a white gel pen.

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Can you guess what I used for the antlers???

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The antlers from the deer on the December 25th cart! I cut out two with one flipped and that gave me two sets of symmetrical antlers. I just cut them off by hand. Everything is then glued to the base (the one without the hole in it) and a piece of ribbon was attached to the tops with my Tiny Attacher (love this tool!).

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Then you attach the cup with your treats (or the reindeer’s treats) inside and adhere it to the base. The cups already come with adhesive on them. Next, just place the face on top, attach the eyes and holly, and draw his mouth (I can not draw so excuse his lopsided mouth!).

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After I put them all together, I found these plastic Christmas lights in my stash and used these instead of the ornaments that I had cut out. I just tied them on with some SU twine.

Here is the poem that I will use (these are not mine, I have just been using them for many years so I do not know where I found them):

Magic Reindeer Food -

Sprinkle this reindeer food outside on Christmas Eve night

The moon will make it sparkle bright

As Santa’s reindeer fly and roam

This magical food will guide them to your home.

 

Or I may even use one of these:

 

I wanted the perfect gift for you- 
But couldn’t decide just what to do.
 
I almost sent you a dozen roses-
 
Instead here’s a bag of…
 
reindeer noses!

I woke up with such a scare when I heard Santa call...
"Now dash away, dash away, dash away all!"
I ran to the lawn, and in the snowy white drifts,
those nasty reindeer had left "little gifts".

I got an old shovel and started to scoop
Neat little piles of "reindeer poop."
but to throw them away seemed such a waste,
So I saved them, thinking you might like a taste!

As I finished my task, which took quite a while,
Old Santa passed by and he sheepishly smiled.
And I heard him exclaim as he rose to the sky~~~
"Well, they're not potty trained, but at least they can fly!"

 

 

Thank you for visiting and I hope that you enjoyed my Christmas Reindeer!

 

Christmas Reindeer Recipe:

 

From December 25th -

Holly @ 1.222

Ornament @ 1.431

Antlers – Deer @ 4.417 x 8.583

From Cricut Craft Room Basics -

Circles – 1 @ 4.25 x 2.75 (base)

                   1 @ 4.25 x 2.75 (with a 1.75 x 1.75 circle welded inside for the face)

                   2 @ 1.75 x .875 (eyelids)

                   2 @ 2 x 1.375 (outside ears)

                   2 @ 1.75 x .875 (inside ears)

                   2 @ .5 x .5 (eyes in black)

                   2 @ .75 x .75 (eyes in white)

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting,

 

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Holly Jolly Blog Hop

Welcome to the Holly Jolly Blog Hop! I can’t believe that it’s that time of year again! If you came here from Fantabulously Pink then you are in the right place. If not, start at the beginning so you won’t miss out on any of today’s great projects!

I decided to make a simple yet beautiful Christmas centerpiece – a Poinsettia Gift! I only used one Cricut cartridge for this, one of my favorites – Flowers Shoppe!

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I started with three items purchased from the $ store – a 4x4 piece of Styrofoam and two different candle holders. I glued the flat candle holder onto the candle stick with E-6000 adhesive and wrapped the Styrofoam in some Christmas wrapping paper (just in case the base showed through the flowers)

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For each poinsettia, I cut out two of the <Mum2> flowers at 2”, one more at 1.5” (page 21), and one <Sunflwr1> at 1.5” (page 17). I used the Hide Contour feature in Cricut CraftRoom to hide the holes in the flower centers. I inked the edges of the three flowers with Fired Brick and then cut the two largest flowers between two of the petals.

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Using a mat and a petal roller, I shaped all three flowers – first from the back around the outside and then on the front just in the centers.

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I then overlapped and glued the petals on the two larger flowers.

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Then all three layers were glued in place, staggering the petals.

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I rolled the spikey swirl and glued together. When they were dry, I lightly brushed them with Walnut Stain ink and glued them to the center of each poinsettia.

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And here is my finished Christmas poinsettia!

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I wrapped holiday ribbon around the Styrofoam and then hot glued all of the poinsettias to it. I plan on making two more of these in different sizes to place on the center of my table next month.

I hope that you enjoyed my holiday project and my quick tutorial. Next on the Hop is Betsy at BetsyBoo!

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