~Name Card Holders and Place Mats~

Hello Girls....I'm joining Leigh today for Thrifty Thursday....I thinks with our times being so hard right now we are all looking for thrifty gifts we can give and use....

Now I got some of these ornaments at the Dollar Tree....just love the colors of these and right away my old mind started spinning as to how I could make name card holders out of them...and what a great Christmas gift they would make and so easy...

You will need a Hot Glue pad for these....You see nothing sticks to these pads....

These also from the Dollar Tree came 6 in a package....

Got some table scatters also from Dollar Tree...they come in 3 differ kinds in each package....so you can just add however many you want on the little frames...This is a snowman one I did and used an silver pen to even add Len's initial on the snow man with...

Now here a box of old ornaments I got at Hospice for 50 cent..... I got 2 boxes of these enough to make 6 holders with

Now for these you need to take the wire hanger from one of them and put it in the other one...so now you have 2 wire hangers on 1 ornament... You now have a place to put your name card.....

Now add a big wad of hot glue on your glue pad....

Put your ornament on it... after its cooled then just peel it off the pad...this makes the ornament stand up straight....

Again I added some of those table scatters to name card and to the ornament so they match ha ha!!....Now I used Recipes cards I had to make the name cards with just cut them to the size I wanted....Now you can use fancy ornaments for these and not do the table scatters on them like I did..

Here's what they look like all done...Just think for less that 4 card holders you have have a gift that cost less than $ 5.00..... Now the blue and silver ones I just glued the cards right on them as the holder were just plastic so didn't have wire to work with...

Now I also found these foam snow flakes again at $$$ Tree and your suppose to hang them...But I thought how great these would be as place mats for my Christmas table...

Also very Little cost to make as a Christmas gift...Hey and like I said I'm all about being thrifty at Christmas...

I took my Glue glitter and out lined the snow flake to match the one place card holders I did....

Now here it is all done....If you did the place card holders and the snow flake place mats you have a special gift to give for under $9.00 and can still buy a beautiful large Christmas bag at Dollar tree and not spend more than a 10 dollar bill for the whole gift package of 4 name holders and 4 place mats....I sure hope I gave you a few things that you can make and also use as gift giving....After Thanksgiving I will show you the whole Dining Room table I did with all the stuff from the Dollar Tree....So when you see my Silver and Blue table post come up Please come by and take a look....

Many Blessings to each of you from my side of the Mountain today to yours...