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Fall Holiday Table Settings.....Oct 1999

Materials needed for Place Card, Recipe holders:

• Card Stock Paper (cut to measure 7 3/4" x 5 1/2")
• Recipe cards or 3x5 cards (With your favorite holiday recipe to share with your guests)
• Contrasting paper and/or tissue colors
• Fall Rubber Stamps
• Stamping Ink, & Markers
• Glue Stick
• Stapler

• To form the Place Card recipe pocket, fold to the inside 1 1/8 inches of one of the short ends of the card stock.  Connect no more than 1/4 inch of the side edges together using staples or glue. ( If you use glue, make sure you only glue the very edge so that the recipe card will slide into the pocket.) Allow glue to dry.
• Fold the card stock in half, short ends together.
• Decorate the front of the card with stamps
• Using contrasting tissue paper, tear a rectangular piece approx. 4 x 2 1/2 inches and glue it, centered, onto the card front.
• Cut a piece of colored paper measuring 3 x 1 1/2 inches.
• Decorate the colored paper with a small stamp and write your guest's name.
• Glue it, centered, onto the tissue paper.
• Decorate the pocket inside the card with stamps.
• Place the recipe card inside the pocket and surprise your guests by sharing one of your favorite holiday recipes with them.

Materials needed for Napkin holders:

• Artificial flowers or leaves with stems measuring 6" or longer. (9" preferred length)

• Holding the top of the flower in one hand, begin wrapping the stem around two of your fingers.
• Wrap it around up to two times with the end of the stem always stopping in the front (where the face of your flower is)
• Bend the end of the stem so it points straight down, away from the flower.
• Adjust the flower top if necessary so that when you look at your napkin holder, the flower is facing you and the stem is pointing down. (see photo)
• Slide your rolled napkin through the coils of the stem and you are set.

Materials needed for Candle holder:

• Wood candlestick holder (If you will be burning candles, use one with a wide base)
• Small wood shapes or squares
• Glue gun
• Acrylic Paints
• Brushes
• Mixing Palate or Cardboard
• Short Candles
• Tracing & Carbon Paper, Pencil, Tape (If you are going to use patterns provided. Click on the patterns to get a printable copy.)

• Using a paint color that complements your table setting, paint your candlestick holder. (I used ivory)
• Trace the pumpkin or pie pattern onto your small wood shape or square. (Or draw your own idea)
• Paint the picture as follows:
• For Pumpkin
• Base coat: Mix a little Ivory with Georgia Clay
• Stem Base coat: Territorial Beige
• Leaf Base coat: Hunter Green
• Use straight Georgia Clay for the dark shading on the pumpkin. On the left half of the pumpkin, paint a stripe of Georgia Clay on the left edges of the pumpkin ribs. and on the right side of the pumpkin, paint it on the right edge of the ribs, shade also on the bottom of the pumpkin..
• For the highlights add more Ivory to your base coat color, then highlight the center of each rib. (Make your highlights more toward the top of the pumpkin.)
• Highlight the stem by adding a little Ivory to Territorial Beige and light the left edge.
• Highlight the leaf by adding a little Ivory to Hunter Green and light the left edge.
• Add thin curly strokes for pumpkin vines.
• For Pie
• Base coat Mix for pie plate Ivory and Indigo Blue. (Mix to desired color)
• Base coat for pie Territorial Beige
• White for pie steam
• From your pie plate base coat, make two other colors.  Add a little more Indigo Blue for the shading color, and a little more Ivory for the highlight color
• Add shading to the left and right sides of the pie plate.
• Add highlights to the center.
• For the pie highlights, add a little Ivory to Territorial Beige and highlight the top of the pie, with a slight downward stroke coming from the top center and spreading out around the top of the pie.
• Use straight Indigo Blue to lightly add pie slits.
• Use White and thin it with water, paint thin curly lines from the top of the pie, upward.
• Glue the small wood shape or square to the front of the candlestick holder with the glue gun.
• Add your candle and your ready.