Recycling Project: Halloween Treat Bottle

While admiring Marie Gamber's blog site, The Joy of Cards and Papercrafting (http://thejoyofcards.blogspot.com/), I saw a really cool way to turn a plastic drink bottle into a treat container.  My version does not look anything like the one I saw on Marie's site, but I am pleased that the result was a quick, low-cost, and unique treat container.

 I sketched on the bottle with a permanent marker the place where I planned to cut the opening.  (See photo.) It was easy work to cut the window (leave one side attached) in the clean plastic drink bottle using a craft knife.  Then you can fill the bottle with shredded paper (from Ben Franklin Crafts) and candy (or other treats).  Next, to cover the window, I cut a label from some Tim Holtz Halloween paper and adhered it to the bottle with Merikan double stick tape.  Luckily, I found a sticker in my stash that just fit the top of the bottle, but you could easily punch out a circle from a scrap of Halloween card stock.  For the caution tag, a Martha Stewart sticker was attached to a piece of red card stock and cut into a tag shape.  A beige reinforcement ring (made using punches), ribbon and twine completed the look of a spooky Halloween treat bottle.

I hope you'll give this recycling project a try.  It is a good, quick and inexpensive way to make treat holders for other occasions too. By the way, for those of you who are wondering who won the witch clear stamp...it was Shirley N., Stampin For The Fun Of It, (http://stampinforthefunofit.blogspot.com/).  No one actually said they wanted the stamp and other goodies; so I decided that since Shirley was the first to comment, she was the winner.  Either no one really reads blog posts completely or everyone was too polite to say they wanted to win the prize.  Anyway, congrats Shirley.....your prize is on the way to you. Stay tuned for more surprise giveaways.