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Santa Treats

Santa Treats

If you need one more Christmas treat idea that is easy to make, try these Santa Treats.  These boxes are easy to make, much like the 2-4-6-8 box.  Then just wrap the “belt” around and put a belt buckle.  Fill with candy.  Done and cute!

To make this Santa Treat Box, cut a sheet of Real Red Cardstock in half, at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″.  Score at 1 1/2″, 4″, 5 1/2″ and 8″ along the long side.  Turn and score at 1 1/2″ for the bottom flaps.  Then, like the 2-4-6-8 box, cut up on those flaps to the horizontal score line and cut off the tiny little piece.  Fold and crease all the lines and assemble the box.

The belt is a 3/4″ strip of Basic Black Cardstock.  I find it easiest to wrap a long strip around the box by hand, creasing at each corner and then cutting off the excess.  Make the strip meet on the front of the box because this will be covered by the belt buckle.

The belt buckle can be the retired punch that I used, the Curvy Label Punch, or just cut a square of Silver Glimmer Paper or Silver Foil.  The trick is to then just cut a small square of black to glue in the center of the buckle to make it look like the belt goes through the buckle.

I found this idea on Pinterest made by Julie Davison.

Then just put candy directly into the Santa box or put in a cello bag and put that inside.  Mine has various chocolate candies and after the photo, a candy cane, plus a little packet of tea for something healthy!

These are very easy to make and everyone will think you made something special!

Homemade Fudge Gift For Christmas – The Stamper’s Way!

Christmas Fudge Poem

Time is getting short for shopping for Christmas gifts, but you do have time to make fudge for Christmas, don’t you?!  You will LOVE this fudge recipe!  All you need is a printer, stamps and paper!  Or even just a pen!  Maybe you have one of those impossible to buy for people on your list, but here is a solution! Print out this poem and buy one of those gigantic candy bars (or any size candy bar) and put this poem on it!  Maybe you want to update the words a little if you are creative with poetry!

Type up this poem and print out on your computer.  Likely you can put a sheet of Whisper White cardstock in your printer and print it on that. Wrap the candy bar with designer paper or cardstock.  If you want, do a little stamping on the poem, like these little snowflakes, then adhere to the top of the candy bar.  Wrap a ribbon around or put in a cello bag and you have a fun little gift or stocking stuffer!

It’s an oldie but goodie, around as long as I can remember, but it’s still a good, creative idea!  Time is of the essence right now!  You will probably think of other creative things you can do with food at the grocery store to make it into a lovely gift!  In the meantime, go make some “fudge” to give your neighbors or put in someone’s Christmas stocking!

 

 

Rudolph The Reindeer 2-4-6-8 Gift Bag

Rudolph Reindeer 2-4-6-8 Gift Bag

You must make this Rudolph The Reindeer 2-4-6-8 Gift Bag just for fun!  It wouldn’t take you long to make several of these for favors at everyone’s place setting at Christmas dinner! You could put a few pieces of candy inside or a little gift.

Just use whatever brown cardstock you have. I used Soft Suede, but Crumb Cake would be good too! Cut the paper at 6″ x 8 1/2″.  Then score at 2″, 4″, 6″ and 8″ along the long side.  Turn the paper and score at 2″. Cut each of the flaps and crease on all the score lines.

Your paper will look something like this, although the measurements will be different.  Same idea.

Designer Paper Gift Bag Cut

Before assembling the box, figure out which panel will be the face of the reindeer and decorate with his eyes and shiny nose.  Use the Sprig Punch to punch two antlers for the reindeer.  Just put a tiny bit of glue on the bottom of each sprig and glue inside the bag. The eyes are punched with the 1/2″ Circle Punch in Whisper White Cardstock.  The tiny black pupils are punched with the little oval on the Detailed Trio Punch.  You could also just color in the eyes with a black marker!  The nose is punched with the 3/4″ Circle Punch.  I had some retired Red Glimmer Paper scraps that I used.

Assemble the box using some strong adhesive, like Tear & Tape or Multipurpose Liquid Glue.  If you want the bag to be closed at the top, punch two holes in the top and thread some ribbon through and tie.  I used the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon but some red ribbon would be perfect, too!

The idea for the reindeer box came about after I made the little small gift bag on yesterday’s post but I wanted the reindeer to be a little narrower.  Then I remembered the 2-4-6-8 Box, an oldie but goodie!  I knew it would be the right size I was looking for, but you could use any size you like.

If you wanted to leave the top open, more like a treat box, then maybe I would tie a bow with some ribbon and adhere the bow at the bottom on the reindeer.

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Make a Designer Paper Small Gift Bag

Designer Paper Christmas Gift Bag

It’s almost time to be wrapping gifts and preparing everything for Christmas (that is if you have done your shopping already!) so here is a Small Gift Bag you can make with half a sheet of designer paper.  Put a small gift inside, a gift card, or some candy treats!  Easy to make and a good way to use up that designer paper you are hoarding!  It might save a trip to the store to buy more wrapping paper!

Designer Paper Gift Bag Cut

To begin, cut a 12″ x 12″ piece of designer paper or card stock in half at 12″ x 6″. I used the All Is Bright Designer Series Paper.  You can also make the bag out of cardstock and decorate with a piece of designer paper on the front. Score the paper at  1″, 3 3/4″, 6 1/2″ and 9 1/4″.   Then turn lengthwise and score at 2″.  The 2″ area will be the bottom flaps, so pay attention to the pattern on your paper.  If I had scored this paper at the 2″ mark on the other side, the stockings would be upside down.

Crease all the score lines and cut the flaps as shown.  Rather than just cut straight up on the score lines, I cut a little bit of an angle at each score mark.  It just makes it easier to fold, in certain cases, where the bulk of that score line sometimes interferes with a smooth fold and fit.  Use some strong adhesive on that side flap, like Fast Fuse, Tear & Tape, or Multipurpose Liquid Glue.  Fold in the bottom flaps and adhere.  Stick something down inside the bag from the top, like a Bone Folder or ruler to get the flaps to stick together.

Now depending on what you want to make, you can squeeze in on the sides a little bit to bring the top of the bag together, punch holes in the top, and tie shut with ribbon.  Or use a clip on the top.  If you prefer, leave the top open or even make a lid. It’s very versatile!

For this gift bag, I stamped a greeting from the Sincerely Santa Stamp Set, punched a hole in the top and tied it on the bag with the Whisper White Sheer 1/8″ Ribbon.  I could have made it fancier, layered it on some Real Red Cardstock, or adhered it to the front of the bag, but I liked it fine the way it was.  I did add a Red Rhinestone Jewel to the bottom of the tag. (These Red Rhinestones are discounted right now in the Online Store for the Year-End Closeout Sale!)

Try your hand at making this cute little gift bag or treat holder! It’s fun, easy and cute! Once you do it, you will be able to make them over and over again when you need a small gift bag!

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Paper Pumpkin Goes Wild For Valentines!

Paper Pumpkin January 2019 Kit Wild Ad

Paper Pumpkin has become so popular that Stampin’ Up! was not even able to offer the December papercrafting kit to new subscribers, but here is your chance for January 2019 to get the Paper Pumpkin Goes Wild Kit and make Valentines with the Cute Critters that match the Animal Expedition Suite in the Annual Catalog.

Here are some details:

  • Makes 24 adorable Valentine’s treat packages
  • Coordinating colors: Crumb Cake, Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist, Melon Mambo, Petal Pink, and Pool Party

Remember, the kit is designed for you to make something wonderful with the directions and kit contents, but you can use the stamps, ink spot, and all the materials to make whatever you like. If you don’t want or need treats, then make cards and vice versa. Whatever is fun for you!

Stampin’ Up!/Paper Pumpkin will reveal alternate project ideas that combine the January kit with products from the coordinating suite, Animal Expedition, for even more stamping fun! Perhaps you already own some products in this suite or perhaps you will want to purchase some during Sale-A-Bration. I purchased the cute Animal Expedition Designer Series Paper after seeing some cute samples online and I have LOVED using it!  This is a really cute Suite for many occasions.

Even though we are all busy with Christmas, we crafters know that Valentine’s Day is not far behind! Even if you no longer have young children around for class valentine treats, you might like some treats on hand to pass out to neighbors or friends or office mates. Paper Pumpkin Kits are just handy!

You can subscribe TODAY for the January Paper Pumpkin Kit and I would advise doing so as soon as you can just in case this kit becomes very popular as word gets out and they run out of kits to send! The link above goes directly to my Paper Pumpkin sign-up page to make it easy for you!  If you are working with another Demonstrator, please just go to Paperpumpkin.com and search for their name. But I welcome any and all new subscribers because I so enjoy getting my new kit in the mail every month!

Join Paper Pumpkin NOW and get the Be Mine, Valentine Kit in mid-January. It’s just that easy! You will not be charged until your kit ships. The cost is $19.95 but that already includes the shipping so only tax is added! With your first kit you will receive an acrylic Paper Pumpkin block. Otherwise, each kit will include an exclusive stamp set that you can use any time, an ink spot for stamping, and all the materials, including adhesives and die cut papers plus any embellishments…..everything you need….to make the project. Usually it is a surprise, but sometimes, like this month, you get a hint!  You can skip a month if you like after you subscribe. AND all subscribers have access to past kits and refills that may be available in the Online Store! And those little ink spots are great to use with the Stamparatus!

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Christmas Paper Roll Candy Holder Favors

Christmas Paper Roll Candy Holder Favors

At Christmas time there are lots of opportunities where you might like to make some candy holders or party favors so here are two ideas for Christmas Paper Roll Candy Holder Favors.  These are simple to make, especially the Santa one, and you can just use your imagination and make them however you like, no particular templates or instructions to follow.

These candy holders are made with a paper towel roll cut in half (sort of!). First I made the elf, copying a candy bar wrapper I made several years ago in THIS POST.  I just wrapped the tube in Old Olive Cardstock, wrapped it in a piece of Real Red at the top with a little triangle cut out to look like short pants, and two strips of the red and white striped flocked paper from the Santa’s Workshop Designer Paper (no longer available).j You can make your own striped elf legs with Whisper White Cardstock and a Real Red Stampin’ Write Marker.  The shoes I just cut by hand out of a small piece of Basic Black.  You could just use a rectangle shape if you wanted to. Then there is a little Old Olive belt around his shorts with a black buckle.

Here is the secret of making buckles, as on both of these favors……. cut a square of the color for the belt buckle and adhere.  Then cut a smaller square of the color of the belt to center on top of the belt buckle square. That way you are not cutting slits and sliding the “belt” through the buckle or anything! Sometimes there is a punch that is suitable for the buckle.

The Santa party favor is even easier.  Just wrap the tube with Real Red Cardstock.  Make some “fur” on his coat.  I used the Decorative Ribbon Border Punch to decorate the edges of the Whisper White strip.  Maybe it is too frilly for Santa?  You could also just tear the edges to look a little furry.  The black buttons are punched with the 1/2″ Circle Punch.  Just wrap around a black belt and make a buckle out of Gold Foil Paper or Gold Glimmer Paper. Add that center Basic Black piece to look like a belt.

Then just add some candy or treat in a cello bag or glue on a little bottom piece of cardstock at the bottom of the tube and fill with candy. Easy and fun Christmas Paper Roll Candy Holder Favors for you to make!

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Thanksgiving Turkey Treats, Candy & Papercrafts Ideas

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookie Favor

When I think of Thanksgiving, I always think of these Thanksgiving Candy Turkey Cookie Favors I used to make back in the day when my kids were little……and even a few times in recent years when my kids were big!  It was always an easy and fun thing to make for the Thanksgiving lunch at preschool for the whole class. Click on the link to find out how to make them!

Here are some fun Thanksgiving crafts and favors I made in past years!  They may give you some ideas for things you might want to make to give away or have at each place for Thanksgiving.  Just click the link below to go to that blog post with more information.

Thanksgiving Turkey Candy Favor

Thanksgiving Turkey Candy Favor

Thanksgiving Wine Bottle Tag

Thanksgiving Wine Bottle Tag

Thanksgiving Punch Art Turkey Candy Bar Wrapper

Thanksgiving Punch Art Turkey Candy Bar Wrapper

Thanksgiving Turkey with ribbon feathers

A Paper & Ribbon Thanksgiving Turkey Ornament

Embellished Pumpkin Box

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Box

I hope you get some inspiration at the last minute with some of these ideas. You can substitute whatever paper you currently have.

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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!

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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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

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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!

 

 

 

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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