Hello! Happy Love Day! Do anything special with that special someone? Nothin' much here. Pretty typical Saturday, but that's ok. :-)
I have put together a tutorial for the candy tubes for those of you that were interested. I tried the whole video thing and it didn't work out. My old digi camera video feature is pretty crappy. My mom has a better one, but I wasn't able to get a hold of it today, so hopefully the steps in pictures will be good. Let me know if you have questions on anything! Here we go...
Supplies (per tube):
- 5 1/2 x 6" piece of transparency
- Circle punches or other circle cutting system of your choice that will enable you to cut 1 3/4" and 2 3/4" circles. I used my Cricut with the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge
2. Roll the transparency into a tube, adhering the other edge to the adhesive strip
3. Cut two cardstocks circles the same diameter of your tube. The diameter of my tube was 1 3/4" (yours may vary depending on how much you overlapped the edges, so be sure to measure yours). Then cut two circles 1" larger than your tube diameter (mine were cut at 2 3/4")
4. Adhere the smaller circles to the center of the larger circles
5. Use a scissors to snip every 1/4" or so into the larger circle, just up to the edge of the smaller circle.
6. Repeat until both circles look like this:
7. Then fold the little snips. The smaller circle acts as your guide
8. Cut two 7" x 5/8" strips of patterned paper
9. Apply a strip of adhesive along the edge of each strip
10. Peel backing from adhesive and wrap paper strip around edge of lid as shown, making sure you start out nice and straight along the folded edge.
11. Once the strip is wrapped all the way around the lid, go back and rub your finger along the inside of the lid to secure all those little snips to the adhesive strip. Repeat for other lid.
12. Apply a line of adhesive along the bottom edge of your tube to adhere the bottom lid
13. Put the bottom lid onto the tube and use an object such as a large popsicle stick or ruler to rub the inside of the tube against the adhesive to be sure it is nice and stuck. (you don't want candy flying all over!!! :-D)
14. Punch one hole on each side of the tube, 3/4" inch or so from the top edge. Knot ribbon through these holes, leaving long enough tails to tie into a bow. The knots of the ribbon should be inside the tube.
15. Fill with candy and place top lid onto tube. Adhere 1 3/4" punched scalloped circle to the lid
16. Bring ribbons up over lid and tie into bow to secure lid
17. Punch a 2 5/16" scallop circle from white cardstock and adhere to bottom lid
17. Now you can embellish as desired. Here I used a heart stamp "xoxo" stamp from Heart Prints along with the coordinating heart punch
18. Punch out heart and punch a small hole in the top
19. Thread jute through button holes and slip ends through punched hole. Tie to bow on top of tube.
All done!!
Have fun! These would be super for any occasion, I plan to hand them out to my Sunday school kids for Easter! A Halloween version would be super fun too!
Let me know if you have any questions!
awesome!!! thank you for the tutorial!
Posted by: Jen Caputo | February 14, 2009 at 08:15 PM
Fabulous! Thanks so much for the tutorial -- can't wait to make a bunch of these cuties!
Posted by: Janelle | February 14, 2009 at 09:21 PM
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. These are so cute. I can't wait to make a bunch. Love them. You're simply amazing!
Jolene
Posted by: Jolene Eborn | February 14, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Awesome!!! thanks so much for sharing! your blog is amazing and I love the inspiration you give!! thanks, lisa k in tx
Posted by: lisa k in tx | February 15, 2009 at 08:09 AM
Wonderful project!! It's perfect for any occasion and would be such a lovely gift to give someone! Thanks for the "show-me-how"!
Posted by: Danielle Herakovic | February 15, 2009 at 08:37 AM
thank you SOOO much for sharing!!!! You do such an amazing job!!! Thanks!!! Pat
Posted by: pat | February 15, 2009 at 08:53 AM
Love it!!!!! Thanx for sharing....the possibilities are endless ;-)
Posted by: Josie | February 15, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Terrific, Thanks for sharing!!!
Posted by: Elizabeth S. | February 15, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Thank you so much for this! These are gorgeous. Where did you find the pink & red candy corn?
Posted by: Michelle Nadraszky | February 15, 2009 at 01:09 PM
Thank you so much for taking the time to post the instructions on these! They look pretty easy to make and can see using them for a variety of occasions!
Posted by: lainey | February 15, 2009 at 01:18 PM
Thanks for the great tutorial! This looks like fun...I hope to try it out soon!
Posted by: melissa | February 15, 2009 at 01:26 PM
Adorable, Betsy!!! :)
Posted by: roree | February 15, 2009 at 04:20 PM
Thank you so much for the tutorial! I can't wait to try it out for myself!
Hugs!
Posted by: Renee (happystamper05) | February 15, 2009 at 04:34 PM
This is a great tutorial. Thanks for this!!
Posted by: SharonW | February 15, 2009 at 06:16 PM
SO creative....so gorgeous! THANKS SO MUCH for taking the time to walk me through this wonderful project! LOVE IT!
Posted by: Kari D | February 15, 2009 at 07:54 PM
Thanks so much for creating the tutorial! These will be perfect for Easter gifts. Thank you!
Posted by: Jennifer L. | February 15, 2009 at 10:03 PM
That looks so cool. Love this tutorial. Thank you so much.
Posted by: Leslie | February 16, 2009 at 02:23 PM
You are WONDERFUL!! Thank you for sharing this AWESOME tutorial!! :) Judy
Posted by: Judy | February 17, 2009 at 09:19 AM
Thanks for this cute tutorial! I will be sharing it on my blog pintsizedtreaures.com and will include a link to your blog!
Alison Wood
Posted by: Luv2bemommy | January 22, 2013 at 09:32 PM