Cottonberry Creations: Fun sweetie holder

Fun sweetie holder

I was fiddling with a square sheet of paper and for some reason remembered a game I played with my friends when I was young. I don't know the name but it consisted of a sheet of paper folder into 4 pockets. Numbers 1-4 were written on the top. When a person picked a number you had to put your thumb and forefinger of both hands into the the four pockets and push them backwards and forwards for the number chosen to reveal what was written inside. If anyone remembers this game please leave a comment.

Anyway it inspired me to make this sweetie holder. The picture above shows the 4 sweetie pockets where you would put your thumb and fingers. It is in fact shown from underneath. I covered a kebab stick with thin strips of DP and pushed in into the centre of a couple of flowers and down into the holder. I then added flowers on the top and centre of the stick. I suggest you use a glue gun if you have one. If not be prepared for the flowers will slide off the stick. I filled the pockets with pink and white sweeties. I think it would be great for a kiddies party or for Easter with little eggs inside.

I used Craftwork Cards papers and flowers and my sweetie holder is being featured today on the "Focus on you" post on the Craftwork Cards blog.

I have entered my project into a few challenges listed below.

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 6th April.

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/ Anything goes/ Ends 8th April.

http://memascrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 29th April

http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 12th April.

http://hotshotcraft.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 5th April

http://craftybloggersnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 30th April

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 8th April.

http://panpasteluk.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 6th April

http://mygraficocrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 7th April

http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ Anything goes/ Ends 28th April

8 comments:

Riet said...: This is so gorgeous Shirley.

Hugs Riet.xx; 4 April 2013 at 09:02
KraftyKoolKat said...: Very pretty Shirley. Now you have got me trying to remember the name of the game!!!!

Hugs
Cathy
xxxxxx; 4 April 2013 at 13:11
Wendy said...: Fabulous creation....Thanks for joining us at A Little Bit Crafty with our first challenge of Anything Goes and good luck.
Wendy xx; 4 April 2013 at 16:55
Rene said...: GREAT project!!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us at Make it Monday this week! Don't forget to leave a comment for another entry and mention you saw them on MIM for a chance at our second prize! Good luck and I hope to see you back next week!
Rene ;D; 4 April 2013 at 19:36
Mema's Crafts said...: What a wonderful project. Thank you for sharing with us at Mema's Crafts.

Hugs
Lesia; 5 April 2013 at 01:28
Lindsay Craftymonster81 said...: What a fantastic idea and such a lovely end result, love it. Thank you for joining in with the PanPastel challenge blog
Lindsay xx; 6 April 2013 at 02:08
Paula Whittaker said...: What a super project - thank you for taking part in the first challenge set by A Little Bit Crafty; 7 April 2013 at 08:04
sparklingblackrose said...: Wow this is incredible :-) Thank you so much for joining us at A Little Bit Crafty this time, hope to see you in the next challenge too! Elaine DT -xxx- ps I have candy if you would like to pop by and enter :-) http://sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/new-candy.html; 21 April 2013 at 11:17