Embellishments Kids: Men Scan 2 Blog Hop - New Years Eve Treat Poppers

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Men Scan 2 Blog Hop - New Years Eve Treat Poppers

Don't recycle your empty cardboard wrapping tubes just yet. If you're having a New Years Eve get together here's a great idea for either confetti or candy treat poppers. This is simple project that would be great to do with the kids.

new years eve party, new years eve craft, poppers, by Aaron Christensen

My love of vintage carries through on these tissue
wrapped New Years Eve Poppers.

First, I needed to create some decorative papers in the color palette and with the textures I wanted. The portable Flip Scan © mobile scanner came in handy. I took it's cover off, flipped it upside down to direct scan silver glitter I spread in a shoe box lid. I also scanned some burlap, an old book and one of my wife's sweaters.

Because the scanner can be inverted you can lay it on
a variety of surfaces to direct scan.

My palette of decorative papers

I filled 4 inch cardboard tubes with a variety of treats.
Wrapped them in natural white tissue papers and tied off
the ends with various ribbons.

Scanned images from an old book, burlap, glitter and a knit sweater
combined with a few metallic papers complete the look.

I cut the decorative papers into a variety of strips for both wrapping the tissue tubes and to create folded pinwheels. I added some 12's and clip art of an old pocket watch. To add a little sparkle I daubed a few elements with hot glue and dipped them into silver glitter.

Our guests, especially the kids will enjoy the treats and we have nice festive poppers that will look great for our party and will coordinate with our Christmas decor that we love to keep up for New Years Eve.

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