Thursday, July 24, 2025

Candy Bar Treat Holder

Used the KSCrafts Candy Bar Wrapper die set that was released in July 2025 for these Halloween treat holders. These candy bar treat holders can hold the larger chocolate treats. Here is a photo of four of them that I made:


To make these treat holders I wanted to use only card stocks in the Halloween stash that had already been cut - tried to use as much of those papers as I could. This die set has the base box piece with many layering dies for the front, back, sides and bottom. Here is a photo of the die set:


For the base of my boxes I used black card stock. Once those were all die cut I pulled out the card stocks and cut out the curved layered front pieces and two layering pieces for the back - I wanted to put a piece of printed card stock on the outside back of the boxes so they look more finished:

With all the layering pieces die cut I thought it would be much easier to put the layering pieces onto the box base while it was flat before it was all assembled. So using tear and tape I attached the back of the box to the curved front of the box and then added the layering pieces using liquid glue:



and then the back piece:

With all the layering pieces on I folded the box and put that together. Set this aside. For the front of this treat holder I used dies and a punch from the stash -- a Cheery Lynn Spiderweb die set, also used an old Sizzix Ghost #2 Sizzlit die, a Divinity Designs label die set for the greeting, and behind the circles under the ghost I used a scallop circle punch from the stash:

Wanted some texture under the spiderweb so I cut small pieces of cheesecloth from the stash. Used mirror card stocks for the spiderweb and cut that to the size I would need for the box front. Used liquid glue to put the spiderweb on the cheesecloth. Die cut the ghost out of glittered white card stock scraps. Die cut another ghost out of black card stock and glued that to the back of the ghost piece to make it more sturdy as well as fill in for the eyes. For the "happy halloween" I used a stamp set from Paper Smooches:

"Face Off" is the name of this stamp set. I stamped it onto scrap solid card stock and cut that out using the label die set from Divinity Designs. I cut a piece of black card stock to put the greeting label on to frame those on the ghost since the ghost is white. I die cut the two circle dies in the candy wrapper die set for the center of the spider web and I also used a scallop punch for a circle under those. Used liquid glue to layer all the circles. Added the ghost to those and I put pop dots on both ends of the greeting label and put the greeting across the front of the ghosts on the spider web. To add a little sparkle I used crystal gems from the stash to add by the ghost on the webs.

These treat holders hold a normal size Snickers bar, a regular size package of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, a large PayDay candy bar, and a regular size back of peanut M&Ms. I like the die set because it can be used for any holiday or occasion just by leaving the bat dies off of it. This box could also hold embellishments, a decorated pokey tool, a decorated pen, bows, etc for a swap since it is a deeper treat holder. Here are more photos to help show this depth:


and some of the boxes I made:


Easy treat holder to assemble and I like that it can hold more than a normal size Hershey Chocolate Candy Bar. (If you use those I am sure two of them would easily fit inside this treat holder). It is also free standing and with all the layers, very sturdy. Happy to be able to use more of the holiday printed card stocks on hand and to be able to use more of the already cut papers in the holiday stash!

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