Sweet Strawberry Wednesday

Hi everyone!! I hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday? It is usually my Whimsie Doodles Day but I decided to wait until tomorrow so I could show you TWO new releases coming up. Wheee! But hop on over there from today until Friday for your chance to win just be leaving a comment HERE on the  Whimsie Doodles blog.

For today I wanted to share this little project that I did for Saturday Spotlight's latest challenge. And if you need a quick gift for a teacher/friend/co-worker/neighbor, this one is soooo fun!

Vicki has challenged us to make treat containers. Well, I never know which teacher celebrates certain holidays at school, so I tinkered with a tutorial that I got from my Hawaii friend Michelle and came up with this:

Sweet picked strawberries! Now I won't bore you with yada yadas, for lack of certain tools that the wonderful design called for, I tweaked it a bit. First I used pink cardstock (the cheaper the better, you want to be able to fold it easily) since strawberries have that natural color in it:

Okay, I typed on my pictures so it's easier to folow.

I estimated where the circle would go on each area and punched it with my CAD, but you can use any type of hole punch.

The next step is one that I kind of came up with on my own, first off you have to loop ribbon through all the holes to close it, I used hemp twine. And then...

This balanced out the top piece because I ended up using my SU double punch hole for the green part:

Now you have two ends to tie together:

This strawberry can be different sizes to fit your needs, but this is the size of mine.It fits two tootsie rolls:

a nice collection of paper clips:

or a little handful of primas:

Aren't these sweet? Now the recipe boxes are from Michales $1 bin. You can use any type of container but I thought these tied in nicely with some shredded wrap that I had from Easter. Leftover pint containers from  your blueberries or fruit would work well too!
Here is the top view with all the strawberries inside.

I hope you enjoyed this little project! It's a wonderful way to use up scraps, and a different gift for teachers and friends to enjoy. You could even include your favorite fruit recipes! I will try and find the original designer and see if I can change her PDF tutorial to a JPEG so you all can just click and save it. I will let you know if I hear back from her.

Thank you so so so much for coming by! Have a great middle of the week day, make it fabulous. ;)
*Love and Aloha*