BOO Bag Tag #2

Kraft tag base is from Mikes. Used a spider web embossing folder and embossed the tag. Sponged the edges with black ink. For the hole at the top of the tag I used two circle punches for the ring and punched them out of scrap orange card stock.Put the orange ring onto the tag using a glue pen. Set this aside.

Cut out a witch hat die (Cheery Lynn) using all glittered card stocks. Put the hat onto the tag front using glue dots. "Beware" was cut out from glittered orange card stock and put that on the tag using a glue pen. Stars were punched from glittered card stock scraps and put on the tag using glue dots:

The Halloween ticket is a stamp from Stampers Anonymous and fussy cut. Sponged all edges with black ink. Tucked that under the top of the witch hat and put it onto the tag using glue dots:

Used a fine black Sharpie pen for the string from the end of the witch hat for the bug that was punched out of shiny black card stock -- put the bug in place using a mini glue dot:

Tied cloth webbed trim at the tag top and tied a thin sparkle trim on that:

Another spooky tag for the BOO treat bags I am putting together. TFL

BOO Bag Tag

Putting Halloween treat bags together and I need a tag for each bag. Here is the first tag:

To begin with I bought a package of pre cut kraft card stock tags at Mikes. Added a scrap piece of dotted card stock to the bottom of the tag. Sponged all sides of the tag using black ink. For the hole at the top of the tag I used scrap black card stock. Punched a 1/4" circle hole in that. Then using a 5/8" circle punch I punched over my first punch and that gave me the black ring for the top of the tag. Put that over the tag hole using a glue pen.

Cut out a spider web die from black card stock from Mikes. Once cut I spritzed Shimmer Mist Pearls on that. Set it aside to dry. Cut out the "31" using shiny black card stock. Put the numbers on the bottom of the tag using a glue pen:

Cut out the "Happy Halloween"/haunted house die. Using the new-to-me Stampin Up Starbust framelits I just bought at a stamper's sale and cut out an orange circle for the back of the Halloween die piece.  Used the glue pen to put the die cut piece on the Starburst circle. Sponged the edges of that using black ink:

Using a glue pen I put the spider web onto the tag with part of the web hanging off the edge of the tag. Used the ATG for the Halloween circle die cut piece. Here is a photo to show the shimmer on the web:

Stamped "Trick or Treat" using a stamp from the Stampin Up Toxic Treats stamp set onto scrap white card stock using Memento black ink. Cut it out on the trimmer and used a banner punch for the ends of the tag. Put this onto the tag using pop dots. Tied black tulle and orange ribbon at the tag top:

Added black and orange stars to the tag front along with three orange sequins -- which was a gift from another stamper for me. (Thank you). Each of the treat bags have different colours so I have to make different tags for each so I want each tag to be different with different dies and stamps and such. Having the kraft tags as the base will be a time saver when making my multiple tags. TFL

Straw Tootsie Pop Holders

Had made these Flap Over Tootsie Pop treat holders before but for this holder I changed the pattern. I also did not want to see the white stick for the Tootsie Pop so I bought some Halloween patterned straws from the dollar store. Here is a photo of the black holder first:

For the holder I used a piece of 2" wide black card stock from Mikes. Cut that to 8" so that piece is 2" x 8". Scored it with the long side at the top of the score board at 3", 4", and again at 7". Used the bone folder to crease all scored lines. For the print on the front panel I cut that 2 3/4" long by 1 3/4" wide and put that on the front panel using the ATG. For the dotted piece I cut that 3/4" high by 1 3/4" wide and put that onto the front flap.

Used a 1/4" circle punch and punched the hole at the top for the stick to fit through. Used a small double punch for the ribbon holes and put my ribbon through those holes and tied the holder shut. Cut the straw approx 2 1/2" long using scissors and slipped that over the Tootsie Pop stick -- now it looks more like a Halloween treat. (Just slid the straw over the stick -- no adhesive was used).

Stampin Up Mixed Medley is the stamp set the greeting is from. Used various circle punches for that and a scalloped circle punch for the orange scallop piece. Put the greeting on the front of the holder using a large glue dot. Easy holder to put together and it is free standing as well. TFL and YOLO

Ghostly Nugget Treat Holders

Had seen this treat holder made up but do not know who it is from -- if I should find it again I will post their name/blog.

For these nugget holders first I used a Sizzix ghost die and cut out my ghosts from white glittered card stock -- this photo shows two of the holders with the ghosts facing the opposite direction. For that I cut a ghost out with the glittered card stock side to the die and then for the next ghost I turned the glittered card stock over, glittered side up, and cut out another ghost. This is how they face two different directions:

For the bats I used black glittered card stock and a M Stewart bat punch. Glue dots do not work on this glittered card stock so I used TomBow glue to put the bats onto the ghosts. Then added a clear crystal from the stash to the center of the bat. Set these aside.

Using two printed card stocks I cut my nugget wrapper pieces 1" x 3 1/8". Wrapped those wrappers around the nuggets and used glue dots to hold them in place. Made a tray to hold the nuggets in place. I used black card stock from Mikes and cut that 1 3/4" wide by 4 7/8" long. With the short end at the top of the score board I scored it at 1/4 and then turned this piece around and scored the other long side at 1/4. Used the bone folder to crease these lines. Put the five nuggets onto the black tray alternating the prints -- my nuggets are three dotted prints and two stripe prints per tray.

Bought the package of 75 pretzel clear bags by Wilton @ Mikes -- used a 50% off coupon from AC Moore for that. These pretzel bags are 2 1/4" wide -- the pretzel bags sold on the candy making aisle are 3" wide and that is too big for these nugget holders. I put the candy nuggets on the tray in the pretzel bag and then used black tulle to tie a bow to close the bag. Once that was tied I trimmed the ends of the tulle and pretzel bag off using scissors.

Using glue dots on the back side of the glittered ghosts I put one ghost on each nugget holder. Easy holder to put together and the nugget wrappers use up scraps of printed card stocks. TFL and YOLO

Death by Chocolate Treat Holders

Made another treat holder for chocolate candies for Halloween. I used the Sizzix Coffin Box die for the coffin:

Used gray card stock from Stampin Up for the box. Once that was cut and put together using red sticky tape I sponged gray ink on the edges of the box lid and bottom -- here is a photo to show the side of this treat holder:

Cut out a spider web die for the coffin box front and trimmed it to the size I wanted with scissors. Used a glue pen to put the web on the box lid. Using a punch from the dollar bin I punched out two bugs from black glittered card stock. Put them on the box lid using glue dots. For the ghosts I cut that die out of white glittered card stock and put those on the box lid with glue dots. Used black tulle to tie around the box and tied that in a knot. Trimmed off the ends of the tulle with scissors.

For the "SCREAM" word I cut out the die using orange glittered card stock. Wanted this piece to be more sturdy and wanted it to add dimension to the box lid so I also cut this die out of the opening tab to a kleenex box. That is thinner card board than chip board and the die cut it with no problems. Put the card board word behind the orange glittered word using TomBow glue similar to the other words and shapes I had done for Halloween in an earlier post:







To show the size of this coffin box treat holder here it is with other Halloween treat holders I have recently made:

From left to right:

Ferrero Rocher holder, in the middle the smaller version of the Stampin Up Berry Basket, the right holder is the Curvy Keepsake Box made into a pumpkin that has a spider web/witch hatch with bow. This coffin box is a small treat holder but it holds enough chocolate treats to satisfy a recipient. TFL and YOLO

Hold the Popcorn . . . Treat Holder

Used the Stampin Up Popcorn Thinlits die set to make these cute treat holders that hold one Fun Size Hershey Chocolate candy bar -- idea was seen on:

annastampincave.files.wordpress.com

Here is a photo of one style of the holders I made for Thanksgiving treats:

Used the SU Popcorn Thinlit die set and from one sheet of card stock I cut out four of the green holders:

If you were to make the Popcorn box as it was meant to be made you would need to cut two pieces for the front and the back of your box. Once my four green pieces were cut out I used her pattern and cut off the section she instructs you to using scissors. With all four pieces cut I now needed a pattern piece for the decorated card stocks for the front of my holders.

Using scrap white/GP card stock I cut out a Popcorn box:

Only needed the front panel piece so the box side and bottom were trimmed off. Since I need the front panel to be smaller than the box front I used a ruler and pencil and drew a 1/8" border around the panel piece as my pattern:

Took this to the trimmer and trimmed it all around on the pencil line. Then marked this piece with an "x" on the front and the back -- this will remind me that this is a pattern piece and not to toss it out by mistake. You could also put a "p" on it for pattern. Laid this piece on top of my cut green piece to be sure it is the correct size for my patterned card stock:

For my first holder I used a chevron printed card stock. The chevron does not have a directional pattern. I turned the chevron card stock over and on the back I put the pattern piece and traced around this with a pencil -- flipping the pattern piece as I went to save wasted patterned card stock:

Used scissors to cut out my chevron pieces. Using the ATG I put the patterned card stock onto the green bases. Then used red sticky tape to put the green treat holders together. For the front of these holders I used an scalloped oval punch and then an oval punch to cut out scrap card stocks. Put those together using the ATG.

The turkey on these holders is from The Stamps Of Life. Stamped onto cream card stock and cut him out with the matching die. "Happy Bird-Day" is also from that set and I used the Stampin Up Classic Label punch to cut that out. Glue dots hold these onto the treat holders:

This next holder:

These holders are kraft card stock from Mikes. Bought the Stampin Up pom pom trim at a recent stamper's sale. Pumpkin printed card stock is from Hobby Lobby. When I cut the printed card stock for the front of these holders I had to cut all my panels in one direction as this is a directional patterned card stock and I did not want my pumpkin print upside down -- here is the back of my printed card stock marked for my front panel pieces:

Again used scissors to cut these out and put them onto the kraft card stock using the ATG. Red sticky tape again was used to close the treat holders. For the front of this holder I used a scalloped circle punch and a circle punch for the pieces behind the pumpkin.

The pumpkin was made using a Fiskars punch and I added a small oval to the center of that to give the pumpkin dimension. All pumpkin pieces were sponged on the edges. The stem is from another Stamps Of Life pumpkin stamp and die set. The "THANKFUL" stamp is from Stamps Of Life and the actual stamp reads" THANKFUL for you" but I only inked the THANKFUL and stamped that onto scrap white card stock and cut it out using the SU Classic Label punch. I put the greeting under the pumpkin for my first holder but then for the other three I tucked it under the oval in the center of the pumpkin as I like that better:

These are economical treat holders since you can make four from one sheet of card stock. They also make good use of scrap card stocks. They went together quickly and thanks to Anna for sharing her pattern for another use of the Stampin Up Popcorn Thinlits die set:

As for the white pattern piece I put it in with the Popcorn Thinlits die set so the next time I use this die set I will already have the front pattern piece ready to go:

That pattern piece will save time in the future of measuring and cutting my patterned papers. TFL and YOLO

Thanksgiving Keepsake Box Treat Holder

Once again used the Stampin Up Curvy Keepsake Box die for this table top treat holder. This time I wanted to be able to use a printed card stock on the front and back of the box with the sides still being solid card stock.

To begin with here are the two pieces I cut out using this die for the box itself:

Here are the last pieces of the 6x6 printed card stock I had to use on this box:

Did not want to waste the printed card stock so I cut out two pieces for the box front and back being careful to position the die near the edge of the paper:

Basically only needed to cut out the front and back curved pieces. Used scissors to snip off the piece on the bottom left of these pieces:

Using TomBow glue I put the printed card stock onto the front and back box pieces and set it aside to dry:

Once these pieces were dried I used scissors to cut off the white piece at the bottom of the holder:

If you have this die then you know it is suggested that you run your four sides to your box over a bone folder so the card stock will bend into the curvy shape and not show crease lines. Once all my pieces were run over the bone folder then I put the box together using tear tape. (Be sure your glued pieces have totally dried when you do this step).

Painted an unpainted clothespin for the top of the holder using rust craft ink. While that was drying I punched out two different leaves and sponged the edges of those with Old Olive ink. Using the Stampin Up stamp set Gobble, Gobble I stamped "give thanks" onto cream card stock using rust ink. Cut that out using the Stampin Up Classic Label punch. Layered the leaves using TomBow glue and put the leaves onto the clothespin using red sticky tape. Tied a double bow using twine and added a brown crystal to the center of that:

This treat holder will look nice on a holiday table as a place marker as the print is on the front and the back of the holder so it looks more finished:

These little box treat holders go together quickly and are free standing so they will make good place markers at a table. Instead of a greeting print up guest names on the computer, printing them out onto card stock, and punch out the names and put that on the top of each treat holder. TFL and YOLO

Scarecrow Box

Made one more Curvy Keepsake box for Fall -- a scarecrow. Had seen this video by Dawn Griffith on YouTube so wanted to make one myself. Her video is easy to follow and he went together quickly. Here is the link to her video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKHXXDimEgU

Here is my scarecrow:

I made a few changes for my scarecrow as I did not have the corrugated card stock she used. I also wanted the scarecrow face to have a light design to add a look of texture.

To begin with I cut out my two pieces using the Stampin Up Curvy Keepsake Box die set that is new-to-me. Once that was cut out I used a new-to-me SU background stamp Netting for texture on the pieces. I stamped the front, back, and sides of my box pieces with this stamp. For my box I used the SU Crumb Cake card stock. Using the SU Crumb Cake ink I stamped the box pieces. I also sponged the edges of the pieces. Set those pieces aside.

For the scarecrow face I used the same punches Dawn used in her video -- the black eyes are from the SU Owl Builder punch as is the little heart for the front of his hat bow. For the nose I used the SU Bird Builder punch and punched out one wing from SU Pumpkin Pie card stock. The cheeks are also the Pumpkin Pie card stock and I used a 1/2" punch for those. Used the Pumpkin Pie ink and sponged the edges of the nose and cheeks pieces. Used a brown marker for all the stitching as Dawn suggested. For the white dots on the eyes I used a white Signo pen. Once I punched out the two black circles for the eyes I put the white dots on them with the pen and set them aside to dry.

Now for the box assembly: I put the two box pieces together using tear tape. Then used the brown marker and drew a smile on the front of my box. (Keep this close to the bottom of the box so that you can see his eyes once his hat is on). With the mouth drawn then using pop dots I put on the cheeks and the nose pieces. Add clear crystals to the cheeks. Used glue dots and put the eyes on his face. Here he is with no hat:

Now onto the hat. In her video Dawn shows hats using a few different punches for the top of his hat. For my hat I used the Top Note Tag punch as she had done. I do not have the SU Corrugated card stock so I used kraft card stock from Mikes. Cut out two of the Top Note Tag pieces. Sponged the edges using SU Baked Brown Sugar ink. Punched out the Word Window punch from kraft card stock and then punched over that with a 2 1/2" circle punch for the hat brim. I scored the Top Note Tag pieces at 1 1/4" and put those two pieces together using glue dots. (Be sure to keep your glue dots at the top of your "hat" piece so you can put the hat over the handle at the top of your box).Now to get the corrugated look -- I used a Fiskars crimping tool and crimped this piece. Then crimped the hat brim piece -- be sure you use the crimping tool so the top of the hat and the brim pieces are crimped in the same direction.

I did not have burlap for his hair so I used brown paper shred from the dollar store and tear tape. I put all the "hair" on the hat brim while it was flat and then it looked like this:

Do not like that when the hat is taken off you can see this so I used the Word Window punch again on another piece of kraft card stock and punched that out. Then using a 2 1/4" circle punch I punched over that and that gave me the hat "lining" that I put onto this piece with tear tape and it just finishes it off for a neater look:

Now I used glue dots and put the top of the hat piece through the Word Window punch opening and it looks like this:

Using my fingers I creased the brim of the hat as Dawn suggests to make your hat look worn. Here is the little guy with his hat on:

For the bow I used the short cut I just learned for making the bow using the SU Bow Builder punch using fall card stocks. Added the heart from the SU Owl Builder punch with a glue dot and added a crystal to that as Dawn had done on her hat. Used glue dots to add the bow to his hat:

Scrunched up my trimmed paper shred hair with my hands and he is done. Here is a photo of him next to a Halloween pumpkin treat box I had recently made to show the height of his hat compared to the witch hat on the pumpkin:

This is an easy treat holder to put together and the hat is also easy to assemble once all your pieces are cut. Thanks to Dawn for sharing this idea for another cute treat holder using the SU Curvy Keepsake Box die set and for making the video with how-to's. TFL and YOLO