These darling candy bags are made with dies and stamps from Lawn Fawn. There’s so much fun texture and pattern like scallops, zig zag, polka dots and spider webs cut from dies along with brightly colored stamped images and heat embossed sentiments. Find direction on the Scrapbook.com blog.
It’s almost time for Trick or Treat, passing out candy, going door to door with the kids or exchanging with friends, family and co-workers to getting all that yummy candy, snacks and treats. I mean, that’s the best part of Halloween, right? If you want to take your Trick or Treat to the next level try creating your own bags, boxes, tags and holders for all those sweets. Let’s take a look at some fun DIY Halloween treat containers made with paper crafting supplies you probably already have that you can create yourself.
Below each photo you’ll find a link, click it for more details like tutorials, tips and products used.
Bibi wrapped suckers in white and black tissue with twine, adding stamped eyes to create fun ghosts. She attached them to tall black cardstock tags, adding white stamped sentiments and Halloween images. Learn more at the Bibi Cameron blog.
Shiny purple foil using toner sheets was added to the front of this die cut treat box. These even more shimmer from the scalloped window and Happy Halloween sentiment cut from purple glitter cardstock. The die cut spider and web really pop in black against all the purple! Find direction at the Therm O Web blog.
If you’re exchanging treats with friends and want a non-candy option here’s a creative idea from Emily. She made tags to adhere to lotions and nail accessories with tall stamped and die cut pumpkins and heat embossed sentiment strips tied with twine. I spotted this idea on the Taylored Expressions Instagram.
Sandies coloring and style of the witchy woman on her treat bag reminds me of Morticia from the Addams Family. She’s got some ghostie friends, an ink blended sentiment banner and tiny star tag too. Take a closer look at the Stampingbella blog.
These adorable candy bags remind me of Boo Buckets from McDonalds! Each die cut container has a different funny face of a monster, ghost or pumpkin cut from colorful cardstocks with glittery paper borders. Watch a video tutorial on how to make these over at the Pretty Pink Posh blog.
This spooky treat box has a small matchbox sized box attached to the back of a die cut tombstone. The tombstone has a funny ink blended green sentiment and stenciled bricks along with dancing heat embossed white skeletons. Watch a video tutorial at the Mindy Eggen Design blog.
These cute and colorful bags are perfect for the little one’s who are too cute to spook! Karen used double sided pattern paper, wide ribbon and printed sentiments and dies for her candy creations. Take a closer peek at the Doodlebug blog.
Nina created 3 ooky spooky treat bags perfect for teens and adults. Using mixed media products from Tim Holtz and Ranger like Distress Inks, stencil paste, ink sprays, dies, glitter and metal papers and more these are sure to impress. She’s sharing her how to video on the Simon Says Stamp blog.
These wonderful, whimsical tags feature bats, one of my favorite animals, Bobbi used new dies to create them. I love the subtle pattern paper backgrounds and the touches of either pink or yellow among all the black, white and grey. These tags are perfect to tie onto large treat containers! Find all the details at the Honey Bee Stamps blog.
If you don’t have fancy dies to make boxes or bags don’t worry Cathryn is here for you with a handmade box sharing dimensions for cutting and scoring to create your own using cardstock. Add some ribbon and stamped images and you’ve got a cute DIY bag. Find all the directions on the In the Pink blog.
And lastly here’s an amazing treat holder to make for someone really special. This snow globe shaped box features a stamped Frankenstein’s Monster Gnome with a die cut haunted house scene in the background. There’s also a funny sentiment below and cute little ghosts hanging around too. Find more info on the Jaded Blossoms blog.
I hope you have the best time Trick or Treating this year and will create some amazing treat bags to pass out!
-Heather
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