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.