Homemade selection box

saffsie

Hiya i've been reading these boards for a while now and decided to give some homemade gifts this year. Instead of buying selection boxes i have decided to buy the sweets and make my own i'm looking for some ideas how i would display them.
Many thanks
saff

System

i bought smallish xmas stockings and filled them make sure they are not knitted cos they stretch the more you put in and never look full !

sarahf191979

Maybe you could wrap each bar in tissue paper and then tie together with ribbon??

Or a Poster tube (Think you can buy these in the post office??, filled with sweets and Choc's with shedded tissue paper and some xmassy confettie??

Would have also suggested the Stocking idea.

HTH

minimacka

this was a popular sweetie idea from last year. I made some for my kids and they went down really well. If you do a search for retro sweetie box then lots of ideas come up. btw the box above was being sold for £25 in one of the big department stores :eek: .

oops sorry didnt read the post properly this might be a bit too small for what you are looking for. Nice idea though.

I like to make exploding sweets for birthdays, I something like a small plant pot and fill it with oasis. Get some wooden scewers (sp) then attach the sweets to the scewer and push them into the oasis. Fill the plant pot up with the scewers and sweets and then what i did was hang ribbon from some of the sweets and wrap around with cellophane. Ive made 3 of these for my nieeses and nephews and they loved them. I put things like, long chews, bags of rainbow drops, freddos, chewits, lollies if they are long enough can just be stuck into the oasis. some thing like this:


Hope this helps.

pookienoodle

I always use christmas gift bags with a character on the front.
I stuff a couple of bags of sweeties at the bottom for bulk and then fill with multi pack bars and lollies.
then sellotape the handles together add a bit of tinsel or tissue paper and they look really nice.

Mrs_Thrify

wow minimacka, I have printed off your pic's, hope you don't mind? I too am looking for Christmas idea's. Can I ask whare did you buy the cellophane, if thats the paper at the bottom of the stisks?
Looks fantastic.

minimacka

julie_d wrote: »

wow minimacka, I have printed off your pic's, hope you don't mind? I too am looking for Christmas idea's. Can I ask whare did you buy the cellophane, if thats the paper at the bottom of the stisks?
Looks fantastic.

mine didnt actually look like that but i wanted you to get the gist of what i meant. I used scewers and clear cellopane on mine, they still look really good though. I suppose you could always use tissue paper in different colours if you couldnt find the same coloured cellophane. The picture is one off the internet, bBet it costs a fortune aswell.

soblivion

saffsie, how about using christmas papers and making an acetate box to display them in like these ones?
http://www.staceystamps.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/18/p2180202.jpg
or this

http://reneevs.blogspot.com/2007/12/joy-acetate-box.html

savingholmes

Home and bargains and Asda are selling lunchbox or cookie tins that could be really nice...

I love the sweet skewer idea by the way

Cinny91

This is a really good idea.

I was going to buy desktop pix a mixes for my boyfriends youngest brother and sister but i'm going to do this instead, going to get 2 tin lunch boxes from asda and fill them with cheap sweets and couple HSM chocolate lollipops for good measure.