Chocolate Favours

Written and Created by PaperCraftCentral Susan

Chocolate Favours can make parties and events so special. Lovingly making your own party favours can show everyone that you have spent time and care on them and thought about them before they came to the party. And it doesn't have to take a lot of time!

A friend made me one of these little party favours and I loved receiving it.

So I decided to make some of my own and show you how I made them so you could have the same pleasure of giving.

These little wraps or baskets are so nice to make for your next party. Here's a simple one to start with.

"The 12-step chocoholics program:
NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!
~Terry Moore"

How to Make Chocolate Favours

What You Will Need:

It need not take a lot of time and effort to make something cute and special for your next occasion.

I made these with

• Two circle punches, one bigger than the other
• A stamp set - I chose the centre of the (retired) For You Flower stamp from Stampin' Up! It needs to be an image that will fit within your smaller circle punch
  
• ink pads of your choice
  
• A crop-a-dile
• Some gems with split posts
• Small wrapped sweets. I used the little Dove chocolates pictured but choose any small wrapped sweet that will fit between your biggest punched circles
  
• Cardstock- I chose Very Vanilla and Balmy Blue cardstock
  

There's a place for you to upload your own party favor ideas at the bottom of the page. Scroll down to see!

Here's what to do:

This is how to make these chocolate favours, step-by-step:

• Stamp your image or words on cardstock and punch out two circle shapes with the smaller punch. I did sponge some Balmy Blue colour around my small punched circle edges as well.
• Cut two circles out of cardstock with your larger punch
• Be sure to give the larger circles a flat bottom, either by their positioning in the punch or you can cut them off with a paper trimmer later. 
• The picture below shows how I turned my punch over to be able to see how much I was cutting off the bottom of the bigger two circles.
  

Fold and crease along score lines with a bone folder.

Now use the Crop-A-Dile to punch a hole in the middle of your small stamped circles and your circles with flat bottoms so that the split post gem can be insertedand hold the two circles together.

You could strengthen and neaten your large circles by gluing another punched circle to the flat bottomed circles before you glue the blue basket in. That way you will hide the split pins showing on the inside. Just trim the bottoms flat again so your chocolate party favour will stand up.

You could make Chocolate Favours in any theme you want, making them as large or as small as your punches or dies allow, and decorating them as much or as little as you like. I am imaginging a person'a name on each of them to show where you want them to sit at the table!

When you do make some of these, I would love to see them!

Your project could be featured on PaperCraftCentral.com!

If you want ready made boxes for a special dinner party, Stampin' Up! usually has a pre made packet of little boxes for quick decoration and packaging. Most boxes are also food safe so can hold a cookie or another type of food as well.

Remember, if you are a card maker, one of the nicest gifts you can give is a little box full of hand made cards that your friend can just go to when she needs a thank you or birthday card!

Explore the current Packaging Page to see what is available at Stampin' Up! right now.

If you enjoyed making little chocolate favours, you may like to try a new project. Here are some things you could consider making next:

• Decorating boxes
• Decorating candles
• Decorating tin cans
• Making a box to decorate