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Turkey Sour Cream Treat Holder For Thanksgiving

Turkey Sour Cream Treat Holder For Thanksgiving

I believe “sour cream treat holders” have been a staple since I started stamping so here is my Turkey Sour Cream Treat Holder!  The basic concept is that this simple little treat holder is shaped like sour cream packets come in/used to come in??  The top side is closed one direction and the bottom side is closed another direction.  They are very simple to make and very popular in the papercrafting world!  You can make them for lots of occasions and decorate them to look like lots of different characters like this turkey.  On Pinterest (of course!) I also saw a Pilgrim and an Indian that were very cute for Thanksgiving.

Turkey Sour Cream Treat Holder Side View

Here is the turkey sour cream treat holder from the side.  Just be sure to put your treat inside before you seal up each end!  If you have a paper crimper like we used to sell but you can probably still buy in a craft store, it is handy to use that along with adhesive to close up those ends, and it looks very decorative.  I didn’t use mine on this turkey.

Here is a diagram from a past sour cream container in this post if you need more directions:

Make a Sour Cream Container with Tape

Make a roll out of the paper and adhere along the side.

Make a Sour Cream Container Roll

After adhering one end, pinch closed the opposite end going the other direction (after putting in your treat!).

Make a Sour Cream Container Other End

To decorate the turkey, die cut or punch some paper feathers.  I used the leaf die in the Nature’s Roots dies.  You can use any left shape or punch out ovals in different colors.  The beak is just a hand-cut triangle over a fold.  The waddle is just a die-cut heart or you can use a punch or just cut one out!  For the eyes, just punch out two circles, like with the 1/2″ Circle Punch and then two smaller circles from the Cookie Cutter Builder Punch.

So simple and yet you end up with a cute treat for Thanksgiving!

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Thanksgiving Pumpkin Favor

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Favor

If you are looking for a cute little favor for Thanksgiving, look no further than this Thanksgiving Pumpkin Favor.  It is just a little box in between two of the largest scalloped circle die-cuts and then decorated.

I started with making the little box. This is the size that worked to fit behind the scalloped circles die cut with the Layering Circle Framelits Dies.  When the Big Shot first came out, we had a BIG scalloped circle steel die, so if you used that your box would need to be larger but I think you could easily do the calculations from this template.  You could also use any circle if you didn’t have these dies.  Here is the template for the little box.  The paper is 4 1/2″ x 4 1/4″.

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Favor Template

With the 4 1/4″ side up at the top of your Stampin’ Trimmer or Simply Scored Tool, score at 1″ from each side.  Turn the paper so the 4 1/2″ side is up at the top.  Score at 1 3/4″ and 2 3/4″.  Then cut those flaps just up to the score line as you see in the photo.  I like to cut mine on a slight angle to that bulky scored area doesn’t interfere with how the flaps fit together.

For the pumpkin pieces, as you see in the photo, I first die cut with the largest scallop circle, then ran it through the Swirls & Curls Embossing Folder.  I think you could use almost any embossing folder, just to give the paper a little texture and interest.  To get the flat bottom, although perhaps you could leave the circle whole, I marked one scallop and then I counted over 14 scallops and cut from one mark to another.  That made the two circles even and matching.

After assembling the box, just glue the pumpkin pieces on each side.  The handle was about 7″ long.  I just glued inside but it might be nicer to adhere it to the box before adhering the pumpkin sides.  Or use ribbon!

To embellish, I die cut various leaves in a couple of green colors, yellow, and orange, even Gold Shimmer Paper.  I used the Seasonal Layers Dies and the Rooted in Nature Dies.  Use whatever you have.  I cut a variety so I could play and see which leaves I wanted to put on the pumpkin.  If I made another favor I can use my extra leaves.  I tied a bow with the new 3/16″ Braided Linen Trim and adhered it with a Mini Glue Dot.

For a Thanksgiving greeting, I turned to the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set, invaluable, in my opinion!  I stamped the “gratitude” saying and cut out with the Classic Label Punch.  I also made a flagged end with that punch. Then I just put some glue on the back of the one end and stuck it underneath the leaf.

I’m really happy how my Thanksgiving Pumpkin Favor turned out and I have filled it with candy and am taking it to someone this afternoon!

All Is Bright Christmas Handmade Tags

All Is Bright Christmas Handmade Tags

Today I thought it would be fun to just make these All Is Bright Christmas Handmade Tags!  Make it easy on yourself and just pull out a pack of designer paper where you have a lot of scraps and some coordinating cardstock. Get out a stamp set of greetings and go for it, maybe with a few punches and embellishments if you like.

I chose the All Is Bright Designer Series Paper from the Holiday Catalog just to use in small and little pieces to decorate the tags.  For the tags, I punched narrow strips of cardstock (a smidge less than 2″ wide) with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch.  I only chose Real Red and Garden Green Cardstock to use to keep it simple.

For the greeting, I only used the Sincerely Santa Stamp Set.  This set coordinates with the Sincerely Santa Project Kit, but you can put it to good use without the kit.  Or look in your stash and I’m sure you will find appropriate holiday greetings for making tags.

The first tag has three punched Christmas light bulbs made with the Christmas Bulb Builder Punch.  The middle white bulb didn’t photograph well, but it is there!  I used Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Brush on it, but then I couldn’t stop myself and put it on the red and green bulbs also. I added a little bit of twine for the string on the bulbs, glued down with teeny drops of Multipurpose Liquid Glue.  The top of the bulb has Gold Foil punched with the same Bulb Punch.  The background paper is the light bulb pattern in All Is Bright.  And I stamped the “To: and From:” on a scrap of Whisper White.

The second tag is just stamped with the candy cane, snowflake and star stamp in the Sincerely Santa Stamp Set.  I colored each design with my Stampin’ Write markers so each one could be a different color.  Just “huff” (breathe) on the stamp after coloring on the stamp to remoisten so it stamps well.

The third tag is probably the easiest.  Just stamp the greeting and adhere a tiny strip of designer paper at the bottom!

For the fourth tag, I stamped that candy cane, snowflake, and star stamp in Real Red on Real Red Cardstock.  I stamped the greeting in Real Red, punched out with the 1 3/4″ Circle Punch, layered on a 2″ punched circle of Gold Foil, and that layered on the Starburst Punch piece (which was already in my scraps!) (The gold foil looks black in the photo!)

The last tag is easy also!  Just use a strip of the stocking paper, tie a little ribbon around, depending on the location of the stockings, and stamp a little greeting to place at the bottom.

Then for all the tags, I just tied on some Garden Green & White Baker’s Twine.  It could be whatever twine or ribbon or string that you have on hand.

That’s it!  Five tags made in just a little while!  And I used up scraps of designer paper without cutting into big beautiful sheets of paper!!  You might want to make some extra fancy tags for certain gifts or people, but you might also remember that some people will not pay much attention to the tag on the gift and will just throw it away!  So while you can make something pleasing to yourself and hopefully to them, don’t put all your effort into just gift tags!

If you want a whole coordinated fancier set of Christmas tags, purchase the Sincerely Santa Project Kit!  Everything you need to make 30 tags is in the cute little tin, except for the Sincerely Santa Stamp Set.  If you do not want to purchase the stamp set, you probably have a stamp set you can use of Christmas greetings.

Have fun making some Christmas tags!!  Use what you have!  Use it up!  Then you can buy more!

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Santa Clear Tiny Treat Box

Santa Clear Tiny Treat Box

Looking for an easy way to make a little treat box?  Look no farther than this Santa Clear Tiny Treat Box!  I love the little Clear Tiny Treat Boxes that are so easy to decorate!  Have them for a little table favor at each place setting, as a party favor, as a little decoration, or to hold a small gift or treat. So many ideas and you can decorate for any occasion!

For this treat box, I used the Santa’s Workshop 12″ x 12″ Specialty Designer Series Paper.  This paper is called “Specialty” because it has some flocking on many of the images!  It just adds a nice, surprise touch to the paper.  You might be able to see in the photo that the Santa hat has some flocking on the little ball on the hat and on the brim.

These Clear Tiny Treat Boxes come flat and protected by a piece of plastic that you pull off.  Then just crease the score lines and assemble the box. I cut a strip of a plainer pattern of the paper to wrap around the box.  I find it best to estimate the length of the strip you need, then just wrap it around the box, holding it tightly while kind of creasing it with your fingers around each side of the box. THEN I use my Bone Folder to properly crease the lines.  Sometimes this assures a better fit than prescoring it.

The particular Santa I chose can be die-cut with one of the Santa’s Signpost Framelits Dies.  If you don’t own the dies, just cut out the Santa by hand with the Paper Snips.  Adhere to the front of the box.  I also added a ribbon tied around the box, the Poppy Parade 1/2″ Textured Weave Ribbon.  

One of the fun things that happened accidentally was that if you look closely at the photo, you can see the images from inside the box on the opposite side of the paper band! It just happens to be cute little images that I happened to cut so that they would show.

Now all that’s left is to put some Christmas candy in the box or some shred and a little gift. Put a Thanksgiving image on the front and put at each place setting for your Thanksgiving dinner.  It will be both a table decoration and party favor. Put a package or two of the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes on your order and have them on hand.  You will be glad you did!

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Granny Apple Green Gift Bag For Thanksgiving

Granny Apple Green Gift Bag For Thanksgiving

As I was getting out my Thanksgiving decorations the other day, I came across a little gift bag I’d made last year out of designer paper. It was a little crushed so I decided to make a new one so here is my Granny Apple Green Gift Bag For Thanksgiving.

Part of my purpose was to use up this polka dot paper in the Halloween paper, Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper.  But if I made the bag with this paper, then the inside would have the Halloween designs.  Maybe it doesn’t matter too much, but I decided to make this bag out of cardstock and then decorate with the designer paper because the design is not at all Halloween!

This is just a small little bag (and could be an open box) so it is perfect for just a little treat or maybe as a table favor at Thanksgiving or a hostess gift. It’s really just a basic template we have all probably used before.  You can squeeze the sides in like I did in order to close the top. I punched two holes in the top for some ribbon to tie it closed. You could use a little clip like the Gold Library Clips or any of the other kinds of clips in the Stampin’ Up! Store.

The paper is 12″ x 6″. I used Granny Apple Green in the Brights 12″ x 12″ Cardstock Assortment package. It’s a little harder to get your hands on 12″ x 12″ paper today but you can buy the assortments and of course a big package of Whisper White 12″ x 12. I scored the long side at 1″, 3 3/4″, 6 1/2″ and 9 1/4″.  Then I turned the paper and scored at 2″ which makes the bottom flap.  If you are using a patterned paper, pay attention to which direction the pattern is going!  For the front and back sides, I adhered pieces of the Toil & Trouble DSP cut at 2 3/4″ x 4″.  You could stamp on the cardstock without adding designer paper.  Just do it before you assemble the box!

Granny Apple Green Bag Unassembled

You’ll notice on the flaps I cut them on a diagonal a little bit.  Sometimes it doesn’t matter, but sometimes it makes it easier to fold things in if the tabs are just a little narrower.  Sometimes that scored area gets things off kilter a little.  After stamping or decorating the paper how you like, use something strong like Tear & Tape Adhesive on that side tab.  Then fold the rest of the paper over to meet it so you can adhere it flat and not hold it up in the air to try to line everything up!  Also adhere the bottom tabs.

Then just squeeze in the sides, put in your treat, and tie on some ribbon to close.  This is what it should look like from the top.

Granny Apple Green Bag Top View

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For the front, I stamped a label outline from the Labels To Love Stamp Set on Granny Apple Green Cardstock and punched out with the Everyday Label Punch. I also stamped the greeting in the same set and punched with the 1 1/2″ Circle Punch. To add a little embellishment,  added two Metallic Pearls to the sides of the label.  I adhered the label with Stampin’ Dimensionals.

If you don’t want to make it a bag, don’t pinch in the sides and leave the sides all straight.  You could add a handle or just put some “shred” inside and your treat or gift or insert a cello bag of candy or whatever!  Lots of possibilities and all of them fun and easy when you make something like this Granny Apple Green Gift Bag For Thanksgiving.

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Easy Candy Bar Reindeer Christmas Favors

Candy Bar Reindeer

If you were wondering what to do with any leftover Halloween candy (especially if it rained and stormed and you barely had any trick-or-treaters), here’s an idea to turn the small candy bars into Easy Candy Bar Reindeer Christmas Favors!  It’s almost Christmas anyway, so the candy won’t get old!

These were little snack size candy bars but of course, you could use regular size candy bars if you like. Basically, you just wrap cardstock around the candy bar and then turn it into a reindeer for Christmas!  You can use these for stocking stuffers, party favors, table decorations, whatever you need.

For those who like measurements, for these chocolate bars my Crumb Cake Cardstock was cut 3 1/2″ wide to go around the bar and 3 3/4″ in length.  You can just wrap the paper around and kind of score it with your fingers, or measure your candy bar if you want more precision.  I scored my cardstock at 1″, 1 1/4″, 2 1/4″ and 2 1/2″.

To make the antlers, I used the Sprig Punch and Early Espresso Cardstock. I just put a dab of glue on the end of the sprig and adhered it inside the candy bar cardstock wrapper.  You could even separate the two sides of the sprig if you wanted to.  I liked mine together as punched.  Use whatever you like for the eyes, big or little.  I decided on the two circles in the Cookie Cutter Builder Punch and added pupils with a black marker.  It would be cute to use any “googlie eyes” you might have in your stash.  For the nose, I used the 3/4″ Circle Punch to make a sparkly red nose with some retired red Glimmer Paper, but of course you could just use Real Red Cardstock for the nose.

For more inspiration, here is another reindeer papercrafting project I did.

That’s all there is to this easy candy bar project. You could even tie a little red ribbon around the bottom portion of the reindeer or fancy it up a little more. Make some cute candy bar reindeer Christmas favors for your holiday table!  Just have fun with it!

***Here are some products that are no longer available to purchase due to the fact that they are backordered and cannot be sent in time for the holidays by the manufacturer.  Very sad this beautiful paper is no longer available.

147816: Joyous Noel Specialty Designer Series Paper
147890: Festive Farmhouse Elements
147811: Santa’s Workshop Enamel Elements

BUT Stampin’ Up! is bringing back the Dashing Along Designer Series Paper, a package of old and new paper patterns for a traditional Christmas!

Dashing Along Designer Series Paper

The Snowflake Showcase of New Products Is Here!

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Today is the first day you can order products in the Snowflake Showcase!  This is a group of exclusive products that you will love that are only available during the month of November! It’s hard to believe we have now passed Halloween and are on the slippery slope to Christmas!!

We did not have a fun Halloween in Houston yesterday!  We knew there was a possibility of rain during the day with a cool front coming through seemingly late at night, looking like there would be plenty of time for trick-or-treating. But it rained lightly all day until late afternoon when the rain got heavy and funnel clouds were sighted and tornado warnings were issued, including one near my area. Then it all let up just long enough for dinner and a bit of trick-or-treating, but I only had 12 kids come by!  So sad! There was a Trunk-or-Treat event, moved indoors, down the street so hopefully, a fair number of kids got to participate in that and have fun.  Now we are all wondering what to do with all the leftover candy!

So now it is November already, but the good thing is you can check out this Snowflake Showcase stamp sets, paper, dies, and velveteen paper. It isn’t even just for the holidays! You can get lots of use out of these products!  I urge you to order as soon as you can just in case any sell out.

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Halloween Cards and Projects Collage 2018

Halloween Cards and Projects Collage 2018

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Today is the big day, especially if you have young children! I remember all those class parties and costumes, the carnival down the street with the Sesame Street puppet booth that gave out cookies and candy to the little ones, the duck pond, the cake walk, my husband taking the kids out trick-or-treating while I stayed home and gave out candy, our first Halloween here 36 years ago when my husband carried our tiny baby daughter to the little carnival down the street at the urging of a friend who came by, and even a Halloween thirty years ago when my newborn baby boy and I were in the hospital, alone, because everyone everywhere was out trick-or-treating. The night before when we’d gone to the hospital I told the nurse the last food I ate was cupcake batter and frosting because I was making cupcakes to take down to the carnival!  His birthday parties always had a Halloween theme with an October 30th birthday!

Lots of good memories of Halloween, even when I was a child, except for those Halloweens in St. Louis where it could be cold on Halloween night and we might have to wear a winter coat over or under our costume! Imagine! We were expected to tell a joke at each house where we went trick-or-treating before we got a treat!

I made this collage with a lot of the Halloween projects I made since the Holiday Catalog came out! If you are looking for last minute Halloween ideas for cards or favors or whatever, check the Categories drop-down box and click on Halloween to find even older ideas from years past!

Whether you are going to a Halloween party, trick-or-treating, helping with the school party, or stamping at home with the porch light turned off, have a safe and fun Halloween!

Paper Pumpkin Halloween Treat Bags

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Paper Pumpkin Halloween Treat Bags

Here is a photo of my Paper Pumpkin Halloween treat bags all filled with candy and ready for some trick-or-treaters!  know I showed you these bag toppers I made with my September Paper Pumpkin Kit, but since I didn’t have Halloween candy at the time, I had to wait to post a photo of the completed treat bags.

I’ve been posting some of the extra Halloween cards I made with the stamps and leftover pieces I had in this papercrafting kit. But this is the original project that the kit was designed to make.  If you didn’t need any Halloween treats, you could have used all the pieces to make Halloween cards or some other project or scrapbook page. That’s why Paper Pumpkin Kits are so much fun! Make the project as designed, no muss no fuss, or play with the contents yourself and devise your own projects! It’s a win either way! Crafting time in a box!!

The cute little printed cello bags even came with a little piece of cardboard to put in the bottom so they could stand up!  I stamped the greeting onto the foldover banners on each back and adhered the ghost, bat, and pumpkin to the top as well as the self-adhesive words and tied on a little baker’s twine.

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Easy Halloween Trick or Tweet Candy Treats

Easy Halloween Trick or Tweet Candy Treats

If you need a last minute quick and easy treat or favor, try these Easy Halloween Trick or Tweet Candy Treats.  When I got out my Halloween decorations, I found a very old version of this candy treat! Here it is updated with the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set!  I’m going to miss these little guys when Halloween is over!  They were so much fun to stamp and color!

You won’t believe how easy these treats are to make! Just cut a strip of cardstock 1 3/4″ x 5 1/2″.  Score at 2 1/4″ and 3 1/4″.  Fold on the score lines. Stamp and color whatever images you like for the front and punch or cut out in a square or circle shape.  I used the 1 1/2″ Circle Punch for these. If you wanted to be fancier you could put a layer behind the image and even a very small greeting. Punch two holes and thread some ribbon through and tie in a knot.  I used the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Double-Stitched Ribbon.

For coloring the images, use whatever you like!  I LOVE the Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers, but I also like the Watercolor Pencils.  If you wanted to save time, you could just stamp the image in a color and not color in at all!  It could even be monochromatic if it matched the cardstock color!

If you are making these for cute little party favors, then maybe you want to fancy them up a bit…..or make them larger for larger pieces of candy.  Just to give to Trick-or-Treaters, just keep them simple!  Put some adhesive in that center space and adhere some candy.  I think nuggets would work well or two of these miniature candy bars! Be careful that the adhesive isn’t touching the part of the candy you would eat. It wouldn’t hurt for the candy to hang out on the sides either!

Easy Halloween Candy Treats

If you are working at the last minute on Halloween treats or projects, this one just might save you! These are fun to make and only take a minute or two!

Happy Halloween!

 

 

 

Toil & Trouble Decorated Halloween Candle and Card

Toil & Trouble Decorated Halloween Candle and CardHere is a matching Toil & Trouble Decorated Halloween Candle and Card just to show how you can use a card idea for a 3D project and vice versa!  If you kind of think of any project as just a small or large card, you can get ideas for almost anything!

I started with the candle.  You could use a real candle or for safety, one of the flameless candles.  I wrapped a piece of the Toil & Trouble Designer Series Paper around the candle. It’s about 3″ wide for this particular candle. I cut out a large circle of Crushed Curry Cardstock for a background (or moon!).  I also hand-cut a witch and some pumpkins from the designer paper to add to the candle.  The greeting is from the cute Trick or Tweet Stamp Set.  I sponged the Whisper White paper a little bit with Pumpkin Pie ink just to take off the brightness of the white.

Next, just to show how you can use the same design on a card, I really just duplicated the same thing onto a card!  I think the Toil & Trouble Designer Paper is so cute this year for Halloween!

Here is a similar Halloween card I made way back in August with the Toil & Trouble Paper and a witch!

I can’t believe how Halloween is sneaking up on us so fast this year, but I guess that is the way it always happens!  Have you made some Halloween cards and treats?  Time is getting short, but you do still have an opportunity to have fun making some Halloween projects!

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Tomorrow, Tuesday October 23!  It’s a Birthday Flash Sale!  Select stamp sets will be 15% off! Check them out and make out your list!

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Halloween Candy Bowl Decoration

Halloween Candy Bowl Decoration

If you want to fancy up your candy bowl a little, try this Halloween Candy Bowl Decoration!  Get yourself some kind of small bowl, dish, or container and make something like a tag or miniature card, essentially, to decorate the bowl for the holiday!

I just took the 5/8″ Burlap Ribbon and wrapped around the candy bowl. Actually, I used some velcro to hold the ribbon together thinking that I could maybe make a Christmas decoration and change it out on the same bowl.  But you could also just use some Mini Glue Dots or something to hold the ribbon on to the bowl if you wanted to.

For the Halloween decoration, I stamped the dog from the Trick or Tweet Stamp Set in the Holiday Catalog on Whisper White Cardstock and colored him in with Stampin’ Blends. I love those Stampin’ Blends Markers!  So relaxing to color with these alcohol markers.  I also stamped and colored the tiny little jack-o-lantern. Then I cut these both out by hand.  I also cut out a pumpkin from the Toil & Trouble Designer Paper as well as the little bat.

The greeting is stamped with the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set and ultimately I decided to just cut all the words apart to fit them onto the decoration easier.  The full moon is cut with the 1″ Circle Punch out of Crushed Curry Cardstock.  I just glued all these pieces onto a piece of Granny Apple Green Cardstock, punched with the 2″ Circle Punch. This is then layered on a piece of Gold Glimmer Paper die cut with one of the Layering Circles Dies.  I adhered this decoration to the burlap ribbon with a couple of Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a finishing touch, I couldn’t resist tying on a piece of the beautiful, sparkly Black 5/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon.  You’ve got to have this lovely ribbon to use on projects!  It’s for more than Halloween, too!

Find a candy bowl in your stash or at the craft store or even the dollar store and decorate it for Halloween! I bet it will make the candy even more enticing (not that we need that!).

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