Christmas Turtle Treat Holder

So here's the first of my Christmas Freddo Treat Holders that I made using my tutorial that I shared the other day. If you like these and want the instructions, check out HERE or there's a permenant link on my sidebar to it.

It uses a Christmas Tutrtle image from Bugaboo. Head on over to see them all and even pick up a freebie image while you are there.

The papers are from an old SU pack I had and can't remember the name!

The sentiment is from PTI. This collection of stamps have had their useage this Christmas. They're great!

I'm entering this treat holder into the following challenges:

Rainbow Lady's Challenge ~ Christmas Animals

Stars and Stamps ~ Animals

Digital Tuesday - Animals at Christmas (+ digi)

Creative Card Crew - Treat Holder

Treat Box Tutorial for Tutorial Wednesday

Wednesdays are Tutorial days over at Catch the Bug with Bugaboo. This week is my turn to share a tutorial. I'm going to show you how to make these very quick and easy treat holders. Here's a bunch I've shared before with you that I made for the Craft Class I go to for Halloween. They liked them a lot and I completed them all in a couple of hours - the time consuming part was the colouring in. If they'd been done ahead of time they'd have been very quick.

The one I'm showing you now is a different one I made for the Halloween period. I intend on making some Christmas ones though. So what to you need? How do you go about it? How long have some of you been waiting for this tutorial?

Firstly, you will need:

1 Piece of card for base, cut at 3" wide by 11" long

2 Panels 2.75" by 2.25"

1 Panel 2.75" by 1.75"

SU Oval Punch (I'm using the old style but the new one works exactly the same)

A scoreboard (not essential but makes this very quick)

Score the base card at 1", 2", 4", 4.5", 8" and 8.5"

Fold along each score line.

Punch a hole between the 1" and 2" folds. Line up the sides of the punch with the sides of the card to centralise it. If you don't have a punch, simply use a craft knife to cut out a hole.

Attach Double Sided Tape to the 1 inch wide piece.

Adhere as shown above.

The holder is now complete and ready to decorate.

I've stamped a pattern using my PTI stamps here before attaching to the base.

Attach one of the larger panels to the inside of the lid and the smaller on to the bottom panel of the holder.

Attach the other large panel to the front of the lid. It'll now be 3 pieces of carstock thick and so quite sturdy.

Attach your images/decorations/embellishments how you like. I've used this Bugaboo Mummy image on mine and a typed sentiment cut with the SU Window Punch.

Slide in your treat. I've used a Freddo bar in this one but I'm sure other items would fit too.

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial and maybe tempted to create your own. If you do, let me know so that I can come and see it.

Thank you

A Pile of Treats

So Halloween is just around the corner so I got busy and made a stash of Trick Or Treat goodies. I made a bunch of Freddo Holders with some of the Bugaboo Halloween Bobbleheads. I handed these out at a Craft Class I attended yesterday and they all loved them (or were just being very polite). Each of them holds a little chocolate frog treat but the wrapper makes them look extra special, even if I do say so myself. I have a picture tutorial in the making on how to create these so keep an eye out.

Here are my Witchy ones which I'm entering into this week's Oh Alice challenge and The Wild Flower Patch who both have a Halloween theme.

Here is a close up of her. Isn't she just simply fantastic and such a great character. I'm also going to enter her into the Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge which is Anything That Flies. You can just image her now, jumping on that broomstick and flying off.

Next up, meet my Mummy! I'm entering these into A Crafty Little Place's 'Make it Spooky' challenge and Cupcake Craft Challenges who want a Sweet Treat with a Halloween twist. These contain some yummy, scrummy chocolate frogs.

Here's Mummy in close up.

And finally, a spectre and a half. How do you like this Ghost? Scary or Sweet? I'm going with sweet. These Ghost ones are entered into Paper Playtime, Oh La La Creations, Corrosive Challenges (Halloween and the Colour Combo of Orange and Black) and Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge.

Here he is in close up too.

If you like these images then head on over to Bugaboo and have a look around the shop. There's LOADS to see there. There's even a Christmas set of these Bobbleheads!