Spooky Sweet Treat Holder

Fill a DIY Spooky Sweet Treat Holder with a bone-shaped pen and some small candies, or go all out with the good, round chocolate truffles for your favorite trick-or-treater this Halloween. Each treat holder uses only one half-sheet of cardstock. Add a pack of patterned paper with a few matching die cut sheets and these little holders come together in a snap. So let’s get started!

cutting & scoring guide

		Paper Dimensions		Score Short Side	Score Long Side
		5½” x 8½” Blackberry Bliss cardstock		1¼”, 2½”, 3¾” & 5″	1¼” & 7¼”
		3″ x 5¾” Spooky Sweet patterned paper belly band
		Scrap of Blackberry Bliss cardstock for die cutting

step by step instructions

While a paper trimmer works for cutting and scoring, I find the Simply Scored Scoring Tool a game changer for making multiples quickly and accurately. Plus the scoreline is a little deeper, making it easier to see than when using the scoring blade on the paper trimmer.

Once the half-sheet of cardstock is scored as noted in the guide above, place the cardstock in landscape position on the work surface, with the narrow ½” score at the bottom. Cut away the bottom right rectangle and the now-bottom square. Repeat on the left side.

There will now be three squares stacked on top of each other on each edge of the piece. The top square and the bottom square on each side become flaps. The middle square on each side stays a square. Snip down the sides of the middle squares. Miter the sides of each flap. Then shorten the flaps by about ¼”.

Fold and burnish all scorelines as valley folds. Push one end flap in, add liquid glue, adhere the opposite flap. Add more liquid glue, then fold and adhere the end square. Repeat on the opposite end. Fill the box with treats — I filled mine with an out of the ordinary bone-shaped ballpoint pen and a few small candies. Link for the pens I bought can be found on My Favorite Things page – and the pens write surprisingly well. Three Lindt Lindor truffles also fit nicely in this Spooky Sweet Treat Holder. Tootsie Pops suckers would also fit, as well as many other treats.

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decorating the spooky sweet treat holder

Create a belly band with the 3″ x 5¾” patterned paper by wrapping it around the filled holder. For added crispness in the folds, use the stylus from the Simply Scored scoring tool to gently add scoring at the seams. Adhere the overlapping flap with liquid glue on the back side of the box. Then add a coordinating ribbon and precut images to the front of the bands. All of the belly bands and die cut images are from the Spooky Sweet Designer Series Paper pack, available at the time of this writing in my online store.

Pro Design Tip: The Spooky Sweet Treat Holder boxes are Blackberry Bliss, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Petunia Pop, Daffodil Delight and Granny Apple Green cardstocks. I chose the belly band colors and the precut images for the highest contrast.

Check out my video tutorial by clicking the photo above. I make the Blackberry Bliss version with the potion bottle.