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Sour Cream Container Easter Treat

Sour Cream Container Easter Treats

In this post I’ll show you how to make Sour Cream Container Easter Treats very easily. I loved the treats shown in the Stampin’ Up! Spring Mini on page 26 so I just used those for my examples. Mine turned out slightly different because of choice of paper and ribbon. We have all been making these sour cream containers for years and years for treats for every occasion so they are very versatile! You can make them larger too if you want. I don’t even know why they are called “sour cream containers” but I think maybe sour cream used to be packaged in small portions like these, maybe in restaurants? I don’t know!

Mine are slightly different sizes but you can barely tell. You really can vary the sizes. One starts with a piece of designer paper 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and one is 4″ x 5 1/4″. You can make them with 6″ x 6″. It just depends on how big you want them and what they will hold. Mine hold 4 little chocolate eggs. You could also use cardstock but designer paper is more flexible to roll up into this odd shape.

I used the Storybook Moments Specialty Designer Series Paper which has cute diecuts included along with the adorable designer paper. On both I used the generic side of the paper so that the little tag and ribbon would stand out. Be sure to use a strong adhesive such as Tear & Tape Adhesive to hold them shut and kind of loosen up the paper fibers before you put them together but gently rolling into a tube shape or run the paper over some curved object, like the edge of the table if it is rounded.

Lay the paper out, long sides top and bottom. Put the adhesive along the edges of the long sides, top & bottom, and on one short end. There is no adhesive on the other short end.

Sour Cream Container Easter Treat Assembly

To make it easier to not have adhesive all over the place while you are trying to assemble the container, pull down a short section of the tape cover and press to crease so you can grab that later. Take off the paper on the short section and adhere it to the opposite side forming a tube. Then reach inside and peel off one of the papers and adhere one end together. Use a bone folder to something to press on these seams to make sure the adhesive is holding firmly. Be sure to add the treat inside the container at this point before you adhere the final side! Remove the third adhesive paper from inside and adhere the other end making sure it is perpendicular to the top. It’s surprising how easily it goes together this way even though it’s a little odd.

Sour Cream Container Easter Treat Adhesive

For the little tags on each container, I just cut a piece of Basic White at 2″ x 1 1/2″ and added diecuts that are in the Storybook Moments DSP. Use whatever ribbon you have to adhere a loop on the back of that tag and pop it up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Sometimes I put Stampin’ Seal Adhesive on the back first to hold the ribbon and then put Dimensionals to help hold the ribbon in place and to pop up on the card or project. One ribbon is a retired Pool Party ribbon and the other is a retired Bubble Bath ribbon that came in a Combo Pack.

Once you try these sour cream containers you will find they are easy to make. Be sure to loosen up the paper a little as I said to make it easier to roll up. Click here to see some that I made for Halloween. This post also has photos that might help you see how to fold them together. These would be so cute to make with any of the sides of the Storybook Moments paper to put in Easter baskets or make for little favors for Easter gatherings! This paper is in stock now so be sure to grab some quickly if you want it!

Sour Cream Container Birds

Sour Cream Bird

Here’s a fun idea you might like to try for a Valentine treat or a fun little bird! The other day I saw a reel on Instagram of someone using short toilet paper rolls and forming them into a little bird shape. I thought it was very cute, but then I realized it looked like what most of us in stamping have made before, a sour cream container! I don’t know if real sour cream containers exist in this shape but I think they used to. It was kind of a twisted container, crimped at both ends. For years, we have made “sour cream containers” to hold candy for a holiday or party favor. After watching this reel of making this bird with a toilet paper roll, I thought why not use designer paper instead? Of course, you could also use cardstock and decorate that.

You can vary the size of your bird. Cut a paper rectangle about 4 1/2″ x 6″ or maybe a little smaller at 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. You can experiment with the size you want in the end. Apply Tear & Tape or Stampin’ Seal on one short side and one long size.

Sour Cream Bird Paper

It’s a little easier to roll the paper up if you have a curved surface or edge of a table or something just to get it loosened up to roll up easier. Remove the liner on the tape on both sides and make a roll to adhere to the other short side. You can overlap the edges however much you want. Then squeeze together the end that has the adhesive on it. Fold that adhered end up to make the bird’s tail feathers!

Sour Cream Bird Paper roll

Then squeeze the other end together but going in the opposite direction of the tail. If you are putting candy inside, put it in there now. When we made these as just a candy holder, we would adhere and/or crimp the edge. But for the bird, we still have some work to do. In the photo above, instead of squeezing the top and bottom of the open end together, you will push the sides together so that the end is going in a different direction than the top.

Before you adhere that end, cut along the edge in a curve. Then cut a little beak out of scrap paper. Cut a triangle out of Daffodil Delight and then fold in half to make a beak. Glue the inside and then glue the beak into that curved edge.

Punch out some black dots for eyes or just draw them on with a black marker. If you have a white gel pen, put a dot for the “whites of his eyes”.

For the wings, just punch out, diecut, or cut out by hand two hearts. Fold those in half and glue a folded wing onto each side of the bird. Don’t adhere the two sides together as you did for the beak.

Add a little glue to the inside edge after getting the bird all made, although it will be adhered at the point where the beak is.

That’s all there is to it to make these cute little birds! Just kind of a silly little project you can try on a Saturday afternoon!