Train Tickets for "The Polar Express"

Next Saturday will be our church's Christmas Party. I am so excited! First, I have to admit that the first time I watched "The Polar Express," Adam was just 3 months old, Carly was 2.5 years old, and I was 24 years old. I cried through most of the movie just because I thought it was soooo magical! Anyway, it just so happens that the hostess for our church Christmas party picked the "Polar Express" theme, and I immediately "jumped on board" to see how I could help! She asked me to make the train tickets!! :) :) :) I really wanted to make these train tickets special, so I went browsing the web, the local scrapbook stores, and so on. I found this awesome shiny gold paper at Hobby Lobby. However, the price was 1.99 per sheet. :( Quite expensive...especially when you know you have to make 50-75 of them...you want them big enough to be "punched" by the conductor...and you have other parts that need to be purchased to make the tickets. So I settled on making the trains themselves gold instead of the whole ticket. :) Then I had some baker's twine in red and green. I had this idea that the "stamp" on the ticket should say the date of the event, along with "One Round Trip Ticket." I worked for a few days trying to figure out how to make text in the shape of a circle (I know you could probably do it,...I'm just not tech saavy). Finally, I gave up and asked for help from others. I found another lady from church who asked me what I wanted and she had the computer file to me the very next day! Yay! All set to begin my production. :) So here they are! I used my Cricut machine, Gypsy, and various Cricut cartridges to produce the tickets and circles and train cuts. I know they are not fancy...but it was all I could do with a million other things I have going on right now during the holiday season...and my friend who is the hostess of our church party liked them, so that is what counts! Thanks for looking!