Oct

Tableau of Terror Treat Box

Posted on: Monday, October 20th, 2008

Over the last week or so, in my little snatches of stamping time, I’ve been having so much fun making all sorts of neat 3D Halloween projects – which I’ll be sharing with you over the next few days. This project is a cute little box with an acetate cover which I designed to hold 4 decorated York peppermint patties. I bought the peppermint patties, some Hershey nuggets and some Ghiradelli chocolates last Thursday just for this purpose – to see what kind of neat projects I could make. Lo and behold, as I opened my cupboard in my stamping studio, I noticed the bags were open and some of the chocolates were gone! My children you say? Nope!….it was my husband! He’s an incurable chocolate lover and somehow managed to sniff out the chocolates. I couldn’t help but laugh – although I did tell him he had to slow down a bit, or I’d have nothing left for my stamping projects *lol*

You can download a template to make this box and the lid HERE.

To create the creatures inside, I stamped my main image from the Tableau of Terror stamp set four times. I then used my 1 1/4" circle punch to punch the face of the werewolf, mummy, vampire and Frankenstein. I then colored in only the main image in each circle. The circles were then matted with a 1 3/8" circle of Kiwi Kiss CS and layered onto a scalloped circle punched out of Elegant Eggplant. I then sandwiched a York peppermint patty between the scalloped image and another scalloped circle on the bottom. I had to attach my scalloped circles to the peppermint patties using mini glue dots. I stamped the greeting from the Tableau of Terror onto the acetate lid prior to assembling the lid. I then added a little spider rub on from the Chills & Thrills Rub ons. As a finishing touch, I added some black narrow grosgrain ribbon at the corners of the box. You can click on the picture to see a larger view.

Note: acetate sheets are also known as transparencies and you can purchase them at most office supply stores. I always purchase the ones that are photocopy safe because they can withstand heat, which means you can emboss on them.

Categories : Templates

11 Comments

Pam Tetreault
October 20th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

Hi Andrea.. this is adorable. My 11 year old daughter tonight was just asking about making something for her teachers.. I printed the pattern off and am going to show it to her in the morning.

thanks so much.. Pam

Michelle
October 20th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

This is super & I love those Peppermint York Patty’s. Thanks for sharing!

Lorena Orellana
October 21st, 2008 at 1:19 am

ok this is a wickedly sweet gift! love it.

Tara Berkey
October 21st, 2008 at 9:04 am

I love all the projects that you do using acetate. I was wondering where you buy it at and is it just called acetate sheets? As always AWESOME job! )

Elaina
October 21st, 2008 at 3:46 pm

What a cute, fun idea. I love checking out your website. Thanks for all your wonderful ideas. I was also wondering where you get the acetate sheets?

Heather A
October 21st, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Andrea, what an awesome project! Thanks for sharing.

Carla
October 21st, 2008 at 7:34 pm

Andrea, this is so great! What a fun and inexpensive gift to give. I love your 3D projects!
Carla D.

emma
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:04 am

wow another fantastic idea, thanks so much for all the free templates that you share with us. As always your such an inspiration to all of us. Without you i would be so stuck for ideas at my stampin up website and have pointed my downline in your direction for the stamp club kits as they are so amazing and unlike anything else ive seen.
thanks again
emma x

Michelle
October 24th, 2008 at 5:23 am

Love these little treat boxes! They are so cute! TFS!

Karen Whitworth
October 24th, 2008 at 11:21 am

What a fantastic idea!!! I am going to make them for my grandsons’ teachers. Thank you for sharing your great idea.

Deb Lenox
October 19th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

oohhh this is so cute.. I cant wait to make one of my own.. thanks forthe pattern and sharing… Deb