Pies and Ties Priesthood Preview 2015

Here are some pictures from the refreshment portion our 2015 Pies and Ties Priesthood Preview.

I didn't ask Mama's permission to show this cute young man's face so he is
a little cropped out, but he handed out programs before the meeting began.

No time for a backdrop :(   but used belt webbing, a bunch of ties and
three command adhesive hooks to hang the tie bunting and tie wreath

It was fun to see the boys faces as they came in and saw the refreshment table
in the back of the Relief Society room. A few made their pie choices early.

Refreshment table with cold "tied" water bottles and cloth "tie" napkins

The napkin ties held the disposable cutlery

The water bottles ties were made from ribbon. A sticky dot held the tail of the
tie and secured the tie to the water bottle. A well dress bottle is so important.

Each presidency member brought a couple of pies. We had a great selection

The buffet tiles were made with a 4-inch Home Depot tile. The raw edges were
painted with black fingernail polish. The labels had tie pattern backgrounds.

All of this was the unimportant part of the meeting. The spirit there was wonderful and the boys received some really great information and instruction and inspiration from their future leaders and the boys who will be in their quorum.

Pies and Ties Invite Printables and Silhouette Studios cut file freebies

Yummy apple pie invitation for Pies and Ties Priesthood Preview Meeting. 

Before we get talking about the actual invite, below is and image of some of the things created for our 2014 Pies and Ties - Primary Priesthood Preview meeting. 

The links for the free downloadable pdfs and Silhouette Studio cut files in anticipation of our 2015 meeting are at the bottom of this post

I love a theme and was super excited that Pies and Ties was chosen again as the theme for our 2015 Priesthood Preview Meeting.

The invitation idea was adapted from One Charming Party and her Thanksgiving place card idea. It's an amazing idea and I love that she shared it.

Our invite was created using a 7-inch disposable pie tin (foil take out container) and a photo of a Walmart apple pie (good thing the married kids came over and ate the pie after the photos were taken.

 The pie wasn't perfect so after a little manipulation in Photoshop, it was laser printed on thick cardstock at high resolution.

The invite information was printed on cardstock and cut to fit the inside bottom of the "pie tin".

In a perfect world all of the invites would have Walmart mini apple pies in them. It was Saturday night, I was tired, and the Walmart I visited only had 4 apple pies. Executive decision time; the 4 boys who the meeting was for got the mini apple pies as filling for their tins. The leaders and Deacon's quorum members got dried apples. I've heard the dried apples were a disappointment. Hopefully they will be overjoyed with the selection of pie we have for refreshments at the end of the meeting and all will be forgiven!

After filling the tin, the pie image was placed on the rim of the container and topped with the clear plastic lid. The edges of the in were crimped around the  lid and the apple tag was attached.

The parts needed to make each pie invitation:

•7-inch foil pan and clear dome lid
•Round chalkboard invite
•4-inch square acetate (or 4-inch square piece of sandwich bag)
•Walmart 4 ounce pie (88 cents in the bakery section of the store)
•Pie and apple tag image
•Mini Pie Box template, patterned cardstock, acetate and adhesive

Follow this dropbox link - Free Download Apple Pie Invitation for pdf images to cut by hand* and Silhouette Studio files to cut by machine.

The instructions are pretty basic:
•Print the files needed and cut them out by hand or through Silhouette studio.
•Using double stick tape or sticky dots attach the pie invite information to the bottom of the foil pan,
•Assemble, fill and close the mini pie box.
•Attach the apple tag to the dome lid with a sticky dot.
•Fill the tin
•Put on the apple pie cut out and clear lid onto the foil pan rim and crimp the edges
Done!

*If cutting by hand, just cut a 7-inch circle and don't worry too much about the white border around the pie edges. When the foil pan is crimped around the image it hides the white border.

Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood - Free Silhouette Studio file

In early 2014 our Primary held a Priesthood Preview meeting for the boys who would be turning 12 years old during the year.

To set the mood, the Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood was displayed just outside the door so the boys could see it as they entered.

Vinyl lettering was mounted on 15-inch by 40-inch cupboard door that was a second from a local woodworking supply. The board was painted black before white vinyl was placed on it.

I want to share the Silhouette Studio cut file so I have placed it in dropbox with a link for you below.

This is a file with lots of cuts and it is a long file that might be difficult to weed so I put boxes (blue lines) around some of the elements so that the more intricate wedding would not be as difficult.

Below is a screen shot of the open file in Silhouette Studio.

Our temple is the Mesa temple but if your's isn't you can ungroup the file and delete the temple before cutting.

With the temple the uncut vinyl is 12-inches by 35.5-inches. Without the temple the vinyl is 12-inches by 31.5-inches.

Again the blue lines and boxes are to make the weeding simpler. If you have any questions or need help or an adjustment to the file, send me an email through the Contact form I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Now for the Silhouette Studio cut file:

Free Silhouette cut file - Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood