Tombstone Treat Boxes -- Tips and Tricks for decorating them

The Tombstone Treat Boxes from Stampin' Up! are so adorable and the perfect size to hide treats and gifts for your ghouls and goblins this Halloween!

The Tombstone Treat Boxes are shipped as a flat-packed kit ready for you to make 8 double-sided gift boxes which can also be used as table decorations. However by using a little Basic White cardstock you can make 16 single-sided boxes that are perfect to treat your little ghouls and goblins this Halloween!

There are two sizes for the inside of the Tombstone Boxes so you'll need to make a back section to fit the size front you are using. Either start with a 6" x 5" (15 cm x 12.5 cm) or 4-3/4" x 5-3/4" (12 cm x 14 cm) rectangle and then score all four sides at 1-1/4" (3.2 cm). After you fold and burnish on the score lines, cut a slit in each of the sides before sticking them together as shown in this picture (as well as in my video).

Here are some of the treat boxes I made using a variety of products from Stampin' Up!

You can even make them in to a light up box, like the two in the centre of the following picture. You just need to die cut an image into the front of the tombstone, add some vellum and use a battery-operated tea light in the box. This would be really spooky at night!

You can heat emboss a sentiment on the tombstone, but make sure you do this before putting the box together.

In my YouTube video I show you how to make this ghost using the Diorama Dies as well give you tips and tricks for creating with the tombstone gift boxes. You can have a look at my video here.

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Special Halloween Card and Treat Holders

The spooky season is upon us and I've made a peekaboo card with the Apple Builder Punch and matching stamp set.

When you pull the skull you will see what is hiding behind the jack-o’-lantern.

Boo! It's a scared little owl hiding behind a small jack-o’-lantern!

There's more spookiness inside the card with an owl being scared by a little spider in the tree.

If you'd like to make your own peekaboo card, I show you how in this video.

The owl from the Have a Hoot set is so adorable that I used it to decorate a package made from the Little Treat Box Dies.

I also made several other treat holders with the Little Treat Box dies in Halloween colours of Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie.

I then made a coffin box using last year's little boxes which I embossed with the new Cobwebs 3D Embossing Folder.

I used the retired Cookie-Cutter Halloween stamps and punch to create a vampire which pops out of coffin.

I even made a little 3-D pumpkin using the the Apple Builder Punch. I cut out five pumpkin shapes I had stamped on Pumpkin Pie cardstock and then stuck each one together to form a little 3-D pumpkin. I then embellished the pumpkin using a decorative die from the Butterfly Beauty Dies and some Old Olive cardstock which I glued into the top of the pumpkin and along the bottom to look like a vine.

I've had so much fun making lots of cute cards and decorations with products from Stampin' Up! I hope you enjoyed seeing them.

Have a Happy Halloween and stay safe!

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