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Clear Tiny Treat Box With Sunflower

Clear Tiny Treat Box With Sunflower

One of my favorite extra products in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog besides stamps, paper, and ink, are the Clear Tiny Treat Boxes which can be decorated like this Clear Tiny Treat Box With Sunflower. Put a candy treat inside or a small gift and you are good to go! Just keep a package of these treat boxes in your stash for any occasion that arises.

The stamped sunflower is the smaller one in the Celebrate Sunflowers Stamp Set. This is the technique I used to stamp and color this sunflower:

  • Use Stampin’ Write Markers to color directly on the stamp in the different colors, huff on the stamp, then stamp on Whisper White Cardstock.
  • Use a Blender Pen to pick up ink from the ink pad lids of whatever colors you choose to lightly color in the white space on the stamped flower. Although I used a Crushed Curry marker to color on the stamp, I used So Saffron Ink with my Blender Pen to fill in the flower petals. I used a Granny Apple Green marker for the leaves but colored in with Mint Macaron.
  • The flower center didn’t look good filled in with Soft Suede so I went back with Cajun Craze lightly to match the markers. When it looked too solid or something, I used the small tip of the marker to fill in a lot of tiny dots around that center.
  • The very center has some yellow and a tiny bit of green.

Blender pens are good to use because you tend to get a lighter color using them but you can pick up more ink and get a darker shade. We used to use Blender Pens all the time, back in the “olden days” when I first became a Demonstrator. You can pick up ink from the ink pad or lid with them, pick up ink directly from the marker tip, blend Watercolor Pencil colors or even pick up color directly from the Watercolor Pencil tip. They are so handy and versatile. Just enough moisture to work but not enough to pill the cardstock, unless you work it too much. In that case, Shimmery White Cardstock is better than Whisper White.

The sunflower is die-cut with the Sunflowers Die. Then I wrapped a ribbon around the treat box and adhered the die-cut sunflower. This ribbon I used is the green gingham in the Flowers For Every Season Ribbon Combo Pack.

After putting your treat or gift inside, you could tie the ribbon around from the bottom to the top instead or just add a bow to the lid of the box. You could stamp a little tag to add as well.

There are so many things you can do with these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes! They are handy for so many occasions! Here is a favorite one I made at Easter.

Here is a close-up of the sunflower so you can see the coloring. You could also stamp in Memento Black ink and color with Stampin’ Blends. Or use Watercolor Pencils.

Clear Tiny Treat Box With Sunflower Closeup

Think about getting a package of these Clear Tiny Treat Boxes and also check out the other types of boxes and bags Stampin’ Up! carries for treats and gifts! There are many options!

Remember it is Bonus Days for another two weeks in July! With every $50 purchase, you will receive an email with a coupon code for $5 to use in August on your orders. No limits, so if you have a large order, you will have more coupons to use! And with the new Stampin’ Up! Catalog, a large order is pretty easy to come up with! Way too easy!!

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St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box

St. Patrick's Day Clear Tiny Treat Box

If you need an easy little treat for St. Patrick’s Day, you can’t go wrong with this St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box. Even if you don’t have the box or don’t want to make one out of paper, you could use a cello bag of some kinds. What is more St. Patrick’s Day than green and gold?

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are great to have on hand. You can put candy inside or a small gift or even just a special note. Best yet, they store flat so don’t take up space so all you have to do is crease and assemble when you need one! Just remember to remove the piece of plastic on them that protects the finish!

I think stamping is so much fun because you can use other images to make something else. If you don’t have a shamrock stamp (and most people wouldn’t!), just use hearts! You can stamp and cut out four hearts or in this project, I just stamped the Call Me Clover green hearts together in a shamrock shape. I just eyeballed it and they didn’t come out perfect meeting in the center but can you even tell? No, because I covered the center with a Gold Faceted Gem. These are sparkly and pretty. For a beginner stamper, a few of these kinds of embellishments are good to have on hand. They aren’t very expensive and serve (sometimes!) to cover up any little boo boo, stray ink, or smudge or at least direct the eye away from it! My little heart stamp is from the Meant To Be Cling Stamp Set. I told you hearts weren’t just for Valentine’s Day! The little stem is just hand cut from a scrap.

The shamrock is layered on a piece of Gold Foil, die cut from a scalloped Layering Circle Framelits Die. Lucky for me, I could fit it all on the front of the Tiny Treat Box! The greeting is from the must-have set, Itty Bitty Greetings. This set comes with 32 stamps and greetings to cover most any occasion. They are small which means they usually fit in the Classic Label Punch so they are easy to use. I cut a flagged end on the tag and stuck it under the shamrock with a little bit of glue.

After you put in your treat, green candy is good for St. Pat’s, tie a ribbon around the box to make sure the lid stays closed and mostly just to fancy it up a little bit more. This is the Gold 3/8″ Metallic-Edge Ribbon, a great all-purpose ribbon to have on hand. The gold edge makes it just a little bit fancy.

The Clear Tiny Treat Boxes are something inexpensive you can add to your order if you are trying to reach a $50 increment on your Sale-A-Bration order to earn a free product! Remember, with a $100 purchase you may choose either TWO $50 Sale-A-Bration items or ONE $100 Sale-A-Bration item. Spending $150 gets you the choices above plus another $50 choice PLUS Stampin’ Rewards (another 10% in merchandise!). And for big spenders (I mean, crafters), a $250 order gets you all the appropriate Sale-A-Bration choices plus Stampin’ Rewards, PLUS an EXTRA $25 in Stampin’ Rewards! That’s a lot of good stuff!

Make something like this St. Patrick’s Day Clear Tiny Treat Box this weekend for a little St. Pat’s fun, maybe with your kids or grandkids!