Treat Holder using a piece of 6 x 6 Square paper

This treat holder is quick and easy to make. Great for the holidays or for a party as favors. Here is both the top view and the side view. Takes about 5 minutes to make. What a great little gift for the classroom or for a get together. Have your kids help, they will have fun folding the paper and decorating.
Fill with goodies, I used Hershey Kisses.

Take a piece of 6" x 6" card stock paper and score at 2" and 4" on both sides. Score on an angle in each of the 4 corners only. See picture for example.

Hole punch on each corner.

Decorate and thread through the holes a piece of ribbon or string to close your treat holder. Put a tag on the ribbon if you want to personalize it.

Here is the top view of the treat holder empty.

Fill with goodies.

Here is the gingerbread man treat holder. I used some leftover art from my daughter to decorate the 2 sides.

Here is the snowman treat holder.

Use rubber stamps to decorate before putting together. I used on the tag the fish from our Bigfoot & Pickle Face rubber stamp collection. Our childsafe/washable ink pad in black was used for this project.

Enjoy and have a happy and safe holiday season. Visit our website to find out more about us, or go to our store for your Holiday shopping.

Milk Carton carrier Instructions

Here is the Milk Carton carrier that will go perfectly with the Milk Cartons from a prior post. If you want to fill each carton with different things, this carrier is nice to make to carry them both, if it is a dual gift. If you are going to give away one box, then you would not need the carrier.


There were two sizes of Milk Cartons, so here are the dimensions and instructions for each.


Cut, score and fold.


Glue together the two pieces.

Glued together.

Glue the two carriers together.

Decorate.

Completed with Milk Carton.

Snowman Milk Cartons in carrier.

If you have any questions, please email me and I will be happy to help you. Have fun stamping with your kids and include them on this wonderful project. Visit Bigfoot & Pickle Face website to find out more about us.

Milk Carton Template

It is has been a while since I posted, not sure where the time went. Here is a fun project and great to do for this time of year. You can also use them for party favors for any type of event, just decorate it to accommodate what you are celebrating. Use them as Advent containers, what a wonderful surprise for the kids. Kids can do this project with some help from an adult. Have them help you decorate the container and then you put in the goodies.

There are all different templates out there for Milk Cartons and I had to modify them to accommodate my needs. There are two that I like, one is a square box and bigger then the other. Remember to always try out anything on scrap paper before you use your good paper. Print out the template information below and follow the instructions. If you have any questions, please email me.

Here is the first template listed above, cut out and scored.

Here is the second template cut out and scored.

Glue the side flap and then glue the bottom flaps. Practice first on white card stock or an any paper you don't mind ruining. Here I used patterned paper, but you can definitely use any solid card stock or thick craft paper. I did not glue the top part of the milk carton.

I decorated the boxes after they were assembled because I had patterned paper. If you use solid paper and want to stamp or put any embellishments, then decorate before putting the cartons together as it would be hard to stamp on the carton already assembled.

This box I decorated with the rubber stamp from our Bigfoot & Pickle Face circus collection and used our child safe/washable ink stamp pads. Create a theme by using different stamps, the kids will just love receiving them and finding out what is inside.

Milk Cartons are great for packing up small items and also great for gift cards. Put in some Hershey Kisses for an added bonus. Use these Milk Cartons to pack teacher's gifts, they will love receiving something personally made by their student.

Tomorrow I will post steps for a Milk Carton carrier made from card stock to match the Milk Cartons. Thanks for stopping by and visit our storefront for your rubber stamp needs and go to our website to find out more about us.

Tattoo Markers are great stocking stuffers for this time of the year and the kids LOVE them. They are washable and dry quickly once applied. Tip: have clean dry skin on the area you are going to color.

Rubber Stamping and Scrapbooking Show

Bigfoot & Pickle Face had their first booth at the Rubber Stamping and Scrapbook show that was held at the Waukesha Expo Center on October 24th and 25th, 2009. The show was a lot of fun and I met lots of wonderful people.

If you look closer I stamped Bigfoot & Pickle Face rubber stamps on the table skirt using a Stazon ink pad in Jet Black. Our child safe/washable ink pads would have smeared so I used the Stazon Ink which is designed to stamp on plastic.


So if you are having a themed party, purchase some stamps that depict the theme and stamp onto a plastic table cloth or table skirt. You can find inexpensive table clothes at a dollar store and the table skirts at a party store [table skirts are more expensive]. At Bigfoot & Pickle Face we carry 3 themes in rubber stamps: Circus Act, Fun with Fish and Farm Friends.

We held a drawing for those who visited our booth and Gwen Simons won the drawing. Gwen chose the Farm Kit and Circus Set 1 and I included Washable Tattoo Body Markers and the Cake Slice project I did on a prior blog.

Thank you to everyone who visited my booth and a Big Thank You to those who purchased.

Free Printables

Everyone loves something for free, so visit this website called Free Printables.com and you will find thousands of FREE printables including calendars, cards, activities, worksheets, games, coloring pages, crafts, and more!

Here is a little bit about Free Printable.com from their website:

"My name is Erik and my wife and I have 4 wonderful kids who are amazing artists! They are ALWAYS drawing! For years we have been keeping printable items for our kids to work on whenever they want to color on fun pages. My wife is also a teacher and is in constant need of printable lessons, crafts, and activities. And me? I am always trying to find a calendar, planner, or other worksheet (not to mention the games!). So I said to myself - why not build a website where I can find all this stuff more easily? And here you have it - FreePrintable.com! :)
I hope you enjoy FreePrintable.com as much as I do!
- Erik"

So if you are not in the mood to do some stamping, stop on over to FreePrintable.com for some great ideas.

More Shaker Card Fun

Here is another shaker card that I did. This time I cut out a square for my window. This is a great idea for holiday cards and you can use the beads as if they were snow.

Use your imagination and you will be amazed at what you will come up with. Let your child work with you and use their imagination and you will have something you will never be able to re-create :)!


Keep stamping and having fun! All of our stamping products are proudly Made in the U.S.A.

How to make a Shaker Card

All crafts are so much fun to do because it takes you out of your routine and gives you the ability to create. Shaker cards are fun to make and fun to give. This is a very easy and quick project to put together with your child.


First choose and image you want to show through your window. I used from our Bigfoot & Pickle Face rubber stamp collection our fish bowl and one of our fun fish images. I rubber stamped both images onto card stock with our child safe/washable ink stamp pad and then I colored in the fish.

I used the exacto knife to cut and "x" in the fish tank and then used sharp scissors to cut out the tank itself. Cut on the inside of the stamped image so you still have the outline of the tank on your card stock.

Cut a piece of Acetate or sheet protector [Acetate is thicker and can be found in the scrapbook section of your local craft store] the same size as your card stock. Turn your "fish tank" onto the back side and glue the clear sheet to it. Then take strips of foam tape and go around your image leaving no spaces, otherwise if you do leave a space your beads will fall through. Depending on the size of your beads, if they are thicker then the foam tape, put another layer of foam tape on top of your existing foam tape [hope this makes sense!]. Your beads will get stuck on the window if your foam tape is not thick enough. Place some beads on top of the clear plastic window~do not use too many as you don't want to cover up your image. Remember, a little bit goes a long way.

Peel of the tape on your foam tape and then stick the "back on" or card stock that has the image you want to show through your window. You have most of your shaker card done!

Have fun decorating and sending out your card! No go and do some stamping and include your children. Kid crafting is so much fun.