Hello, friends! Today is the first day of the
REVERSE CONFETTI Crazy For Christmas holiday event, and today we're sharing creative ideas using
TREAT TUBES!
I have to tell you, I had so much FUN coming up with ideas for the wonderful
TREAT TUBE TOPPER Confetti Cuts! I went to my local dollar store and office supply store, and walked the aisles, and came up with literally dozens of ideas for filling the tubes. Here's a list of just a few ideas, I suggest you take a tube with you when you go to shop so you can be sure the items you're looking at will fit.
Small pair of gloves
Christmas socks
Tiny toys
Candy
Cookies (stack round cookies in the tube)
Nuts or trail mixes
Dog or cat treats
Small pet toys
Craft supplies
Office supplies
Votive candles
Small ornaments
Lip Gloss
Hair bands
Mini flashlight
I made 3 tubes to share with you today, using a variety of fun fillers!
Part of what's so fun making these tubes is thinking of how to decorate your tags. I filled my first tube with some heart shaped dog treats, so of course I had to use the adorable dog stamp sets from
Reverse Confetti!
I colored the dogs from
PAW PRINTS and
PUPPY LOVE using Zig Clean Color watercolor markers, and die cut them using
PAW PRINTS Confetti Cuts and
PUPPY LOVE Confetti Cuts. Of course I had to add the Santa hat from
JOLLY HOLIDAY to my pup :) I spliced together the sentiment using "merry christmas" from
JOLLY HOLIDAY and "woof" from
PUPPY LOVE. If I had to do this over again I think I would make the sentiment say "Merry Woofmas" instead of "Merry Christwoof", ha ha. At any rate, I think it's awfully cute! For the rest of the tag I used
TOPPED OFF TAG Confetti Cuts,
DOTS TAG LAYER Confetti Cuts, and
HANG UPS TOO Confetti Cuts, which I die cut from the striped paper from
VERY MERRY 6X6 Paper Pad. I used
BRICK Card Stock and
TREAT TUBE TOPPER Confetti Cuts to make the topper. It would be fun to bake your own dog treats to fill these tubes, but since I'm not much of a baker I bought a bag of Newman's Own Premium Dog Treats. I just love the cute heart shape of these treats!
For this next tube I did some stamping on candles. I bought these small white votive candles at the dollar store. I used
BLOOMS 'N BUDS to stamp on tissue paper, and then I added the tissue paper to the candles. If you've never done this before, it's VERY easy. Here's a link to a wonderful
TUTORIAL at Splitcoaststampers. I used
BRICK Dye Ink and
AVOCADO Dye Ink to stamp the tissue paper, as well as the tag. To make the tag I stamped the sentiment from
CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS on
CLOUD WHITE Card Stock, then I used
SO STRIPEY to stamp above and below the sentiment. Next I die cut the sentiment using
LACY SCALLOP CIRCLES Confetti Cuts. I die cut a piece of
AVOCADO Card Stock using
CIRCLES 'N SCALLOPS Confetti Cuts and placed it behind the sentiment. I added a flower (the same one I used on the candles), and a couple of leaves from
BLOOMS 'N BUDS, diecutting them with
BLOOMS 'N BUDS Confetti Cuts. I tied the tag to the tube topper using gold twine.
I filled my last tube with some Paper Mate Mini Ballpoint Pens with colored ink. I found that most regular size pens are a bit too tall for these tubes, but the mini pens fit perfectly! For my tag I stamped and colored the worm from
WORM WISHES with various Zig Clean Color watercolor pens, using the same colors as the pens inside the tube. I die cut the worm using
WORM WISHES Confetti Cuts. I used
TALL TAG TRIO Confetti Cuts to cut one tag from
CLOUD WHITE Card Stock and one from
VERY MERRY 6X6 Paper Pad. I stamped the sentiment from
WORM WISHES using various inks. The topper was cut from
LIME GREEN Card Stock using the
TREAT TUBE TOPPER Confetti Cuts, and I tied it onto the tube using some red ribbon and twine.
So there you have it! What kinds of things would you fill your treat tubes with? Be sure to hop along for lots more wonderful, creative ideas from the Confetti Crew!
