Memories of Warmer Days

Some fun pictures of a Whitecaps game where the San Diego Chicken was there. We had a great time and definitely go back again if the chicken was there.

John and I at the game:

The chicken playing follow the leader with little chicks:

Trying to distract the pitcher:

Helping the base runner:



And John delivered me a pretzel with a bite missing. Wonder how that happened??

Treat Wrapper Tutorial

I found this tutorial on splitcoaststampers.com in their resource section. I’ve modified it a little as I found their example to be a bit narrow for my tastes. If you’d like to see the original tutorial it can be found here: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/pull_treats/

Here is the finished result:

First a little math and a few measurements

Might be a good idea to write these down as you figure them out:

1. Measure how tall your candy bar is and add 1.75 inches
My Hershey bar was about 6.5 inches tall + 1.75 = 8.25
This will be the height of the main piece of cardstock

2. Measure how wide your candy bar is and add 1 inch
My bar was 2.5 inches + 1 inch = 3.5 inches
This will be the width of your final product

Everyone still with me?

3. This is were it gets smidge more complicated. Take the number you just figured out for the width of your front panel and double it. Have that number? Now add a 1/2 inch.
My example: 3.5 x 2 = 7 7+1/2 = 7.5 inches
This will be the width of your main piece of cardstock.

So to make the pocket I need a piece of cardstock that is 7.5 inches wide by 8.25 inches tall. If you are using a thicker candy bar, you may need to adjust the width of your paper to accommodate.

For the decorative band going around the wrapper, cut a piece of patterned paper or another piece of cardstock at about 2.5 inches tall and about a ½ inch wider than your main piece. So again for my example I made it 8 inches wide.

Alright, the worst is over!! Smooth sailing from here on out.

Step 1
We need to score the bigger piece of paper so we can create the pocket. On your shorter side (7.5 inches in my example), score your paper at the number you came up with in step 2 above (3.5) and then at double that (or the number in 3a). Turn your paper and score it a ½ inch from the bottom. When you are done your paper should look something like this (without the black lines of course):

Score the decorative piece of paper at the same numbers. It should look like this:

Step 2
To create the bottom flap on the larger piece, cut out the parts indicated below. You can corner round the edges of this flap if you would like. If you want to stamp or embellish your cardstock for the pocket at all, this would be a good time to do so.

Step 3
With the front of your paper facing you, add adhesive to the long ½ inch flap

Step 4
Flip your paper over, fold over the ½ inch flap you just added adhesive to and then fold other side over, thus creating an open bottomed-pocket

Step 5
Add adhesive to the small ½ inch flap and fold up, thus closing the bottom of your pocket.

Please excuse how crocked this looks. It's really not...just a bad angle:

Step 6
Create a slot at the top of your pocket for the ribbon to go through. You can either use a punch or I just punched two holes about an inch a part and then just cut a straight line across to connect the top and bottom of the holes. If you are using smaller ribbon, you might want to make your holes closer together.

Step 7
Now we move to the smaller piece of cardstock. Decorate your band however you please. I kept mine really simple. Add adhesive to the back of the 1 inch flap and wrap it around the pocket. While this is already scored, I’ve found I have to kinda play with it, to get it to fit to my satisfaction.

Step 8
Thread your ribbon through the slot you created on the pocket as shown:

Step 9
Place your candy bar between the ribbon and into the pocket. The ribbon will slide down with the bar.

Tie decortive knot or bow:

When the recipient of the pocket pulls the ribbon up the candy bar will come right out.