M&M Holiday Cards

I decided to make a card and mini-present in one for my colleagues this holiday season. These adorable M&M cards are made with Oreo cookie molds by Wilton, used to make candy-covered Oreos.

To make these cards you will need the following supplies:

-Wilton Oreo cups

-Cardstock cut down to 8.5" x 5.5" (when folded will make a standard A2 card, I used Michaels' brand)

-Scraps of cardstock to layer behind ribbon and behind cup

-Various coordinating ribbons (I used 5/8" ribbon from Michaels from probably 2 years ago)

-Adhesive (I used my Pink ATG gun and Zip Dry glue)

-Something to cut a 2" circle in your cardstock with (I used Creative Memories shape cutter system with the medium circle cutter and green blade, but you could also use a punch or your Cricut)

-M&Ms (I used Mint Chocolate ones, as they came with red, white and green M&Ms)

The steps are as follows:

1. Fold your paper to form an A2 card

2. Cut your circle in the front of the card

3. Trim your Oreo cups individually (they come in a sheet of 8 I bought a 2-set at JoAnns for under $2 on sale)

4. Adhere your cups to the card, so that the shape sticks out of the front of your card (I used Zip Dry to make sure the cup stayed adhered

5. Adhere your ribbon to your scraps (I used a 1" piece and a 1-1/4" piece), and then adhere finished embellishment to card (I used my ATG gun for all of these steps - make sure you push down hard as some of mine started to come up the next day)

6. Fill your cups with M&Ms and adhere your scrap behind the cup so the M&Ms stay in the cup (I used my ATG for this step as well)

7. Add ribbon or sentiment to interior of card (I haven't done this yet, but will probably stamp something on the inside)

Below are the finished cards, as well as some close-ups of the cards.

*I'm not sure why, but the paper seems to have a tonal striped shading to it, however it actually just solid either lime green or red cardstock. Probably because I used my iPhone as I left my camera charger in Minnesota - oops!

Sour Cream Containers

I finally made a project I've been wanting to make for months now - sour cream containers! What are sour cream containers you ask - well they are paper containers that hold candy or a little trinket and are fashioned after the paper sour cream containers that you used to get in elementary school.

Now that you see it, you remember it right? I believe I also had frozen icee type desserts in these as well in elementary school.

I decided to make them for my first-year seminar class that I teach as well as for my colleagues. I ended up making 36 of them in total, with 5 different papers.

These are quite easy to make - in fact it only took me a few hours total to make, including a trip to Target to buy the contents for inside (which in this case is a mini candy cane, 2 Hershey kisses and 2 candy cane Hershey kisses). For the ones that I made you will need the following supplies:

-Paper cut down to 4.5" x 5.5"
-ATG gun (I used the pink one from Michaels)
-Paper Crimper (I have the Fiskars one from Michaels)
-Contents for inside
-Tag/Embellishment for each paper (this could also be ribbon)

1. Put adhesive on both long sides of the paper and one short side of the paper.
2. Form a cylinder, adhering the short side with adhesive to the short side without adhesive and pinch together one end.
3. Fill your container with whatever candy or trinket you would like.
4. Turn your container 90 degrees, so that the you only see an edge of the side you pinched, and pinch the open side to close your container.
5. Place one pinched end into your crimper and crimp approx. 3 times. (Not only does this add extra security, but it provides a pretty, finished edge)
6. Secure your tag/embellishment to your container. (I punched a mini hole and used a mini-brad, however you could just use adhesive and secure it to one side)

This is actually a fairly simple, and quite fun project that is easy to mass produce. Below is a close up of each patterned paper I used (I used last year's DCWV 365 paper pack) and details about the embellishment I added. I hope you enjoy and try this project for yourself!

Embellishment Used: Stampin' Up! scalloped circle punch with white cardstock and paper tree from Tuesday Morning (was inside little plastic containers that I now use for my flowers).

Embellishment Used: Stampin' Up! scalloped square punch, and punched 1" squares from extra of snowflake patterned paper

Embellishment Used: Stampin' Up! scalloped circle punch with white cardstock and more of the embellishments from Tuesday Morning.

Embellishment Used: Stampin' Up! small tag punch with red carstock and Martha Steward embossing present punch with white cardstock

Embellishment Used: Stampin' Up! 1-3/4" circle punch with blue cardstock and paper snowflake embellishments, again from the set from Tuesday Morning.