New Gable Box Die Set

This new gable box is a new release from CatherinePooler.com. The title of this box die on her site is "Happy Feels Box Die".  It is a one piece die set and it cuts out the front and side of the box using a 6x6 piece of card stock. Here is a photo of the die set on a Halloween 6x6 piece of card stock:

You cut out two pieces for your gable box - one for the front and side of the box and one for the back and side of the box. All card stocks I used are from the stash. For my boxes I either used double sided card stock or a thicker printed card stock to make the box sturdy. This first photo shows this gable box die cut out and assembled using liquid glue:

When you cut out this die from your 6x6 card stock piece it leaves very little waste so less card stock scraps to store:

This next box I wanted the top of the box to have different card stock so here is the photo:

and a photo to show the side of this box:

Once the box pieces were die cut I folded it on all scored lines and assembled the box using liquid glue. I used just the top scallop part of this die to cut out a printed card stock for the top of my box:

I cut a piece of printed card stock a little longer and wider than I needed and then taped the die to this printed card stock. Once it was cut out I used the trimmer to trim off the folded scored line the die embosses into the card stock and that left the small strips in the photo above. Used liquid glue and put these pieces on my die cut box piece. With the printed card stocks I used for the boxes being so busy with a Halloween theme I wanted this small scallop piece to be cut out of a not so busy printed card stock. 

In this photo:

For this box I used a pumpkin printed card stock. Cut the top scalloped piece out of dotted card stock in a colour that would compliment the printed box paper. I also used black card stock from Mikes (lighter than their #110 weight card stock) and I cut out a black scallop piece using the scalloped part of the die and I trimmed that to fit along the bottom of the box to add black to the box. I put this black scalloped piece on the front and the back of the box using liquid glue. 

This box is sturdy and easy to assemble - esp if you just use it as it and do not add the two scalloped pieces as I did. I like to use double sided card stocks for boxes/treat holders when I can so when you open the box the inside is a different holiday print and that helps to dress up the box and look more finished. Happy Catherine Pooler is here in Raleigh as I ordered my order and two days later I was making boxes.... Will add more to the box front to dress it up for Halloween as I get closer to that holiday....

Another sold out new product......

Maymaymadeit on YouTube and other crafters were showing the new We R Makers (used to be known as We R Memory Keepers) new treat holder set "We R Makers Carton Stamp Board". Being a new product to the market it was sold out and on back order on most online stores... I was able to buy one off the American Crafts website in stock and it arrived today:

Took it all out of the box:

This new board comes with a full sheet of stamps to decorate the box and it also has holiday icon stamps included. This milk carton board makes three sizes of a milk carton treat holders:

Photo above shows the board right out of the box and it has a stylus on the right side that slides into the board for easy storage. All score lines and markings are easy to read for whichever size milk carton treat holder you would like to make. Love the one page directions with how-to photos on both front and back:

Love that I can use an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of card stock for this treat holder depending on the height of the box I make. Using scrap white card stock I stopped crafting my current project so I could try out this new tool to the craft room to see if it is as easy to use as was shown on YouTube and yes it is!

Cut my card stock for the smaller box - did all the scoring:

Folded on the scored lines, clipped the bottom flaps and ready to form my milk carton treat holder. To hold my sample closed I am using a mini binder clip from the stash but I could also close it with a bulldog clip, paper clip, or mini clothespin:

I plan to add printed card stocks to my box - it is folded every 2 inches so I could use a 1 3/4" x 1 3/4" square piece of card stock and put them on all four sides of the box. Also could measure and put prints on the front and back top flaps. This milk carton box went together quickly and I am happy I was able to find it available for sale! Another great product from We R Makers!!

Laminated Seed Packet Treat Holders

Using a seed packet die set from the stash I made four fall themed seed packet treat holders to use for a Fall treat or for a Thanksgiving treat. I used more of the napkins I recently laminated for these. Here are the laminated napkins before I die cut them out:

With the thickness of the napkin and the laminating sheet I was not sure how these would be to die cut out a shape but the die worked the first pass through the die cutting machine. To try this out I used another laminated napkin - Pink Flamingo - and I die cut a sample:

I  know with vellum liquid glue will show through the vellum so I was not sure how the one layer laminating sheet over a printed napkin would take the liquid glue. But since these laminating napkins have a rice paper texture I thought the liquid glue would work:

With the first sample made and the glue looked fine and held up better than tear and tape on this slicker surface, I die cut out the pumpkin seed packets I wanted to make. The pumpkin napkin has an over all pattern with lots of pumpkins on it but it is directional so I made sure I had the pumpkins going in the right direction for cutting out my seed pockets. These photos show the die cut packets with a liner piece I added to them:

I wanted to add a liner piece as I am using this seed packet backwards for the fronts of my treat holders. To make the liner pieces I laid the seed packet die over my plaid card stock and trimmed away my side panels and then die cut the center piece out. I was trying to use scrap pieces of printed card stocks so I did not have full sheets - otherwise I could have die cut out another seed packet in the print and just cut off the side and bottom flaps using the trimmer. Using liquid glue on the back of the printed liner I put this in the seed packet and then I added glue to the back flaps of the seed packet and then the bottom flap to form the seed packet. Here is a photo showing the front and back of the seed packet after I added the liquid glue and you can not see the glue through the laminated napkin:

Not sure how I will decorate the seed packet treat holders but I used a scallop punch and punched out scallop circles using the printed card stocks and used a piece of cream card stock and punched out circles that I will put in the center of the scallop circles. I can stamp on those or maybe put a Fall icon embellishment or something for decoration when I use these. For the plaid and striped liner printed card stock I die cut the liners straight on the patterned paper and then die cut them diagonally as well:

These treat holders will hold fun size candy bars and it can also hold a gift card if I wanted to use it for Christmas or a birthday treat. Love the laminating napkins as there is a lot to make with them and happy to get them out of their bin and used in this craft room!

Easter Treat Holders

Here are photos of the treat bags I made this year for Easter using a Large Die of the Month from Spellbinders:

Photo of some of the treat holders I made:

First - red holders with the bunnies on them - that is a pattern from StampingwithAmore on Youtube and it holds a chocolate bunny. In her video she used a smaller Ghirardelli bunny but my bunnies are Kit Kats and they are taller than her bunny so I adjusted the pattern for the height. The bunnies on those holders were made using a LadyBug punch. The second from the left tag holder that has the three Hershey nuggets in it is a tag die set and add on's from My Favorite Things from years ago that I had in the stash. Made a sour cream container using pink 6x6 card stock and I added a carrot bow that is made from the Carrot Bow die set I bought a couple of years ago from KS Crafts. The green and blue things below the sour cream container are mini Post It Note holders that have a velcro dot to close them. I bought a pack of the mini Post It Notes from Ollie's and the brand is from Staples:

I paid $1.99 for the pack and the label says this pack sells for $6.43 "their price".   Also used 6x6 card stocks for those. More treat holders:

Pizza box on the left is a die from Elizabeth Crafts and it cuts the pizza box out in one piece:

Die cutting it in one piece not only makes it more sturdy but very easy to assemble. Middle box in the pink holds a Reese's peanut butter cup and that is a die from Taylored Expressions. The small box on the far right is an older unknown die n the stash and that also cuts it out with one piece. Bunny on the front of the pizza box is this die set:

Fun treat holders to put together and used all items and card stocks and pom poms from the stash so that is good. All Easter treat bags have been delivered.... just hoping the chocolate make it until Sunday and not all eaten before!! :0)

Santa Candy Bar Wrap Treat Holder

This year I am giving a Hershey Mr. Goodbar candy bar as a holiday treat. This is a thicker candy bar than the regular Hershey Chocolate candy bar. Here is a photo of some of the treat holders I made:

This holder was made measuring one of the candy bars and then I cut the red card stock large enough to cover this thicker candy bar. I did only one score on the side of the card stock - 1/2" inch. To form this holder I just put the card stock around the candy bar - leaving some room so you can easily remove the candy bar from the holder - and pressed the sides with my hand. Used tear and tape on the scored side to close the holder. Then I removed the candy bar from the holder and worked on that .... Wanted the holder to look like the front of Santa's coat so I cut a piece of white card stock 1 inch wide and the length of the red card stock. Used a 3/8" circle punch and punched out three circles from black glittered card stock for the buttons. Used a square punch for the gold piece and then a smaller square punch for the black square in the center of the gold square as a buckle:

While the candy bar was not in the holder I used a smaller circle punch and punched a circle 1/2" from the top of the front and the back in the center for the ribbon to go through. Used liquid glue at the bottom of the holder and dug out my old Fiskars crimper tool and crimped the bottom of the holder. Cut my ribbon long enough to go the length of the candy bar and be tied at the top so the recipient just pulls on the ribbon at the top to remove the candy bar from the holder. Easy treat holder to assemble. More of these are finished:

Pillow Box Treat Holders

Went through the stash and found an old Sizzix Pillow Box die so I used that for my treat holders. This year I am trying to use lots from the stash and as much card stock printed scraps that I can. Here is a photo of some of the pillow boxes I made:

Cut all the pillow boxes out of kraft card stock. Used various printed card stock scraps and I die cut a rectangle die out of the prints. Used liquid glue to assemble the pillow boxes. Used liquid glue for all the prints I die cut for the fronts of the boxes. Dug out some white paper doilies from the stash and put one on each box. For the poinsettias and the greenery I used Impression Obsession dies from the stash. The poinsettia is their small poinsettia die set:

Cut all the poinsettias out of scrap red card stock and used liquid glue to layer those. Set those aside to dry and cut out two greenery dies from scrap green card stocks:

Once the flowers and greenery were all cut out I put them in a box and used the gold Shimmer Mist from the stash and spritzed them with that for the gold specks on them - the photos do not show this well but IRL they are sparkly:

Once these all dried I used hot glue and added a gold crystal gem to the center of the flowers. Used liquid glue and added the doilies to the boxes. Then used liquid glue for the greenery pieces. To add the flowers and the sentiments I used hot glue. Once again the hot foil sentiments on the pillow boxes I had hot foiled earlier this year and I have all these foiled sentiments sorted into small boxes by foil colour. This way when I need a sentiment for my projects I look through the boxes to see what I can use. This is a time saver for sure -

Easy treat holders to put together and inside the boxes is some paper shred with a few chocolates for a treat. Happy to be able to use more of the card stock scraps and also happy to use products in the stash for this holiday treat holder!

Various Thanksgiving Projects

This post shows some of the items I had made for Thanksgiving but was not able to post them. I made them in October and so here they are:

These are the bag fronts I made. This is a photo to show some of the treat holders I had made:

Made a treat holder using a small kraft envelope and made a rosette for the front of that. Then I used the ScrapDivaDesigns Kiss holder die to hold Hershey kisses. Made a mini Post It Note holder. Also made a holder for Hershey nugget candies - spelled out Thankful or Grateful and I used a stamp set I picked up at Ollie's for a dollar for the letters:

Here is a photo of some of the nugget holders:

Fun Thanksgiving projects! Happy to add the Kisses die set to the stash as I am sure that die set will get lots of use - esp with Valentine's Day up and coming......

Lunch Bag Hot Cocoa Treat Holder

Used lunch bags from the Dollar Tree I had in my stash for this treat holder. The grocery store had the Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa packets on sale this week so I used them for this treat holder. I also used various card stocks from the stash for my bags. I had seen this treat holder made long ago using lunch bags on YouTube and there are a lot of crafters that have made them up and they are easy to assemble and decorate. Here is a photo of one of my lunch bag treat holders:

All these bags measure differently so when I was cutting my printed card stocks I did one bag at a time - I cut the full back piece, the front piece, and then the pocket piece. I put the printed card stocks onto the bags using liquid glue. To make the pocket using the bottom of the bag I used hot glue for that. I added a doily from the stash for the front of the bag. In the pockets I put some chocolates and a candy cane. Inside the bag are two packs of the Swiss Miss Hot Cocoa packs. I used various ribbons from the stash and tied that around the pocket and tied a bow. Used hot glue under the bow to keep it in place and tied. For the greeting on the bags:

The greeting I had hot foiled earlier this year when I hot foiled all my holiday greetings and sorted those for use on projects this year:

I keep the holiday sentiments in small boxes and I sort them by whatever colour foil they are. These sentiment strips have been used on my Christmas cards this year as well as on projects I am making for Christmas so a time saver for sure to have these already foiled, die cut, and sorted. 

I put the hot cocoa treat holders into zip lock bags I had in my stash and they are ready to go - here are more of these I made:

Here is a photo to show the card stock I put on the back of the lunch bag - all the bags have a different print - and this extra card stock makes the cheaper lunch bag more sturdy:

Easy project to put together and there are a lot of versions done of these on YouTube. Just do not expect perfection with using these lunch bags as they are not put together perfectly so they could be different sizes in your pack.