Friday, September 21, 2007

Spooky Sweets Candy Cup Tutorial

Finally, a new tutorial!!!!! So this is another inspiration that I took out of convention this year. These little candy cups are so cute and fairly simple to make. The first one takes the longest just to establish the the template, after that it's quick easy production. (Let me just say before you start looking, I realized that I have a couple of fussy pictures and I TOTALLY apologize. They looked okay on my little screen, but then when I edited-not so great. You'll get the idea, as they are kind of non-essential ones, but just wanted to apologize.)Alright, start with your Dixie cup. I think mine are 5 oz ones, the medium sized bathroom ones. Mine were the kind of waxy ones, I would maybe recommend getting the more papery ones.
Roll the curled edge of the cup up to make it easier for the next step.
Cut that top edge off following the line of the picture. Pull the cup apart at the seam and remove the bottom.
Your cup should be looking like this.
Use that to make a template out of a scrap that you can retain and use again and again.
Trace onto your designer paper. I was able to trace 4 of them onto a piece of 12x12.
Now cut out one of them, it should look like this.
Now you will wrap your cup. I used adhesive and sticky strip on the two connecting edges to make sure it would stay on.
Now before you see it finished, I wanted you to see my ribbon. I took orange ribbon from the Halloween pack I bought at Micheals, the Martha stuff. Then I stamped "Treats" from Spooky Sweets from Paper Trey. Viola, I have my own designer ribbon-fun huh?
Last I stamped the Spooky Sweets, punched it out with an oval punch (wish I had the scalloped one for that size, but alas I can't own everything.), direct to paper added the orange ink. Now pay attention this is the fun part: Punch a hole with your 1/8 hole punch and make a little snip up to the hole. This will allow your tag to sit right on your cup.
Here we are-ALL DONE!!! See how that little tag sits on there? FUN FUN FUN! Filled with Hershey nuggets that have been altered using Paper Trey's Spooky Sweets set.

ENJOY ALL!!!!

12 comments:

Alhambra Club said...

WOW, too cute, this is such a great idea, thanks for the tutorial.

Corie said...

WOW WOW WOW I love this -- thanks so much for the tutorial!!!

dasimonds said...

Wow Kat..what a great idea!!
Nice tutorial..Thanks for sharing.
Way too cute!!

Lori said...

LOVE THIS!!! Thank you for sharing

Anonymous said...

You are SOOO darn creative!!!!

laos348 said...

That is adorable. Thanks for the wonderful directions.

Maria said...

Oh my what a fabulous idea! You did a wonderful job on the tutorial! Very easy to understand!

Your Halloween cup is awesome!

Maria

Anonymous said...

This is so cute, thanks for sharing the tutorial with us!!!

Mandy said...

Oh, how adorable! I just love it!

Anonymous said...

Very cute!! Love it! Great tutorial! ;)

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Jules said...

This little goodie is so cute! I wanted to also say thanks for being in the swap...your card is adorable! Love the colors, I posted the ones from our group on my site today! Take care Kat!

Dawn said...

WOW WOW WOW...What a great idea. How creative. the colors are great and it's just soooo cute..wonderful job.