Sour Cream Containers

I have been making Halloween Sour Cream Containers for the past few years, they are great for giving out to the kids in your child's classroom or to the kids at the babysitters.

Here are a few I made this year.

I didn't take pics of the process but here's a great tutorial(scroll to the bottom of the page, click last page and then move back to page 34, it's about half way down the page). These are so simple to make, I usually make them when watching a favorite show.

I used a 6" x 6" piece of scrapbook paper. 

And I used my fence punch & a circle scallop & circle punch with a witch stamp to decorate the containers.

This is a paper crimper, I use it to crimp the ends of the container for a nice finished look.

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Sarah

Halloween Treat Bag Toppers

My daughter and I were doing a little crafting over the weekend and we made some Halloween Bag Toppers. I didn't take pics of the process because it's pretty straight forward and the size of your bag topper depends on the size of your treat bag.

Here are the supplies that you need:

- Card Stock

- Scrapbook Paper

- Baggies

- Ink

- Stamps

- Double sided tape

- Any embellishments like glitter!

- Liquid glue for glitter

- CANDY!

My baggies were 4" in width, I purchased them in the craft section of the dollar store.

I knew I wanted my topper to be 2" in height so I cut my black cardstock down to 4" x 4". Score at 2" and fold into a tent shape.

Then cut your scrapbook paper just slightly smaller than the cardstock and score this also in the centre, when you glue it to your cardstock there is a nice outer border.

The stamp that I had was roughly 2" x 2", I cut white cardstock to that size and them stamped my image on. I cut my black cardstock slightly larger as a backing for the white.

Position it on your topper. Fill your baggie with your favorite candy and then glue your topper to the baggie using double sided tape. You could also staple your topper to the baggie for a more secure fit.

Add any embellishments you may like & VOILA!

Super quick, super cute & super fun!

(Subway Art courtesy of Eighteen 25)

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Sarah

Tied Up Candy Basket

Here is a cute little candy basket that's really cheap to make, you can make 4 of these with one 12" x 12" piece of scrapbook paper!

Here are the super simple directions:

 Fold along all of your score lines to create a crease, this will be the end result:

 The points are created from the diagonal score of the 4 corner boxes.

Hole punch the 4 corners as shown below.

Then feed your ribbon through the holes (I used about 12" of ribbon) and tie together.

Fill it with your favorite candy!

(subway printable courtesy of Eighteen 25)

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Sarah

Halloween Treat Box Tutorial

Wouldn't it be great to give these out on Halloween?

I absolutely love favors of any kind! Treat boxes, bag toppers, you name it - I want one for every season, well, maybe 2...or 3.

I came across a treat box template here, it was the perfect size.

I printed it on white cardstock and scored the lines for folding.

 Putting the box together is pretty straignt forward - fold it into a box shape, you'll get it the first try!

I used double sided tape to keep the box together.

Get out your halloween scrapbook paper!

The base of the box is 2 1/2". I cut a strip of the orange paper 2 1/2" wide and wrapped it around the box, trim off the excess. Adhere with double sided tape. I placed the tape on the corners and the rim for a snug fit.

Ahhhhh, finally I purchased the iron fence punch from Martha Stewart.

I love this punch. So, so , so  perfect for Halloween crafts.

Check out my black paper iron fence. Isn't it so cool?

I used double sided tape here as well to attach the iron fence.

Another simple way to trim around the bottom of the treat box is to use a coordinating piece of scrapbook paper or ribbon.

And here's the box after I attached more scrapbook paper, some embelishments and ribbon (just use a hole punch to make 2 holes through both sides of the top and feed the ribbon through and tie in a bow).

Isn't it just so purdy!

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Sarah