Sweet Treat Cup

Mar 23, 2010

Crepe paper and pipe clean­ers… can it get much sweeter? For me, no.

Here is a treat cup tuto­r­ial that will fit on an Easter tree if you shorten the han­dle a bit from what is shown here. Or you could score major brownie points by plac­ing one of these lit­tle cuties on your co-workers desk filled with a few candy eggs, a choco­late Easter bunny, wrapped in cel­lo­phane and tied with a seam bind­ing bow. You could also make sev­eral and use them as place­cards for an Easter brunch. Pure sweet­ness I think.

Sup­plies Used: White Nut & Party Cups (can be found in the Cake Sec­tion of large craft stores), Pink Crepe Paper Streamer, Maya Road Pink Ruf­fle Edge Trim, Jenni Bowlin Pink Embell­ished But­ter­flies, Fabri-Tac, Embroi­dery Floss (any light color as it will not be seen), Sil­ver Pipe cleaner

Tools Needed: Scal­lop Scis­sors, Sewing Nee­dle, Hot Glue Gun

Instruc­tions:

1. Cut a piece of crepe paper streamer 12″ in length, fold in half length wise, while still folded trim open edge using scal­lop scissors.
2. Open crepe paper streamer, thread a sewing nee­dle with 3 strand of embroi­dery floss, start gath­er­ing the crepe paper down the cen­ter (the crease from your fold should be vis­i­ble to use as a guide) once you reach the oppo­site end space gath­ers so that the crepe paper ruf­fle wraps all around the treat cup.
3. Attach the crepe paper ruf­fle onto the treat cup. Note: Apply adhe­sive along the cen­ter stitched area.
4. Cut a piece of Pink Ruf­fle Edge Trim long enough to wrap around the cen­ter of the attached crepe paper ruf­fle. Attach the trim to the crepe paper ruf­fle using Fabri-Tac.
5. Attach one Jenni Bowlin Pink Embell­ish­ment But­ter­fly onto the Pink Ruf­fle Edge Trim. Note: The but­ter­fly should look cen­tered on the front of the treat cup.
6. Using a hot glue gun attach a Sil­ver Pipe Cleaner on the inside of the treat cup to form your handle.
7. Fill with shred­ded book pages and sweet treats.

Here’s to a day of happy creating!