The Cutting Cafe-My Favorite Set Giveaway

I'm so excited to post my first project of my return to The Cutting Cafe Design Team.  Regina asked the team to highlight our favorite set.  Just picking one set for my favorite is like pulling teeth because all of Regina's sets are simply fabulous and I love them all.  I decided to use the recently released Assorted Shapes Milk Carton set for my project.  I love making containers to put little treats in and Regina has many to choose from.  I've been wanting a milk carton template forever so I was so glad to see Regina come out with this set.  This file comes with 12 different window cutouts so no matter what the occasion you can put this set to use.  The windows included are:  a square, frame, baby bottle, heart, circle, butterfly, duck, flower, cupcake, house, star and apple.  You can also find holiday specific milk cartons for Christmas, Halloween/Fall and a plain carton with no window cutouts.  Just click on the set for a link to each one.

For my project I made a S'mores kit.  You may or may not know that my husband and I recently sold our home so we could live full time in our RV and travel the country.  So we are always in a campground somewhere.  My granddaughters will be coming to visit this weekend and one of their favorite activities is making S'mores around the campfire.  Inside my milk carton are all the makings--marshmallows, mini Hershey bars and graham crackers.  I thought they would get a kick out of having their own little ready-to-make treat.  I cut the container from beige cardstock and added a piece of acetate to the window before assembling the box.

I used my Cricut Campin' Critters cartridge to decorate my carton. The S'mores sign is from this cartridge and it's cut at 1.5".   One side has a little critter, I think it's a porcupine, roasting a marshmallow over the campfire.  How cute is that?  The porcupine was cut at 2".  The campfire came from the Cricut Camping cartridge and it's cut at 1".

The other side has a bear with a sign saying "Don't Feed the Bears".  The bear is cut at 2".  The sign came from the Camping cartridge and it's cut at 1.5".  I just hand wrote Please Don't Feed the Bears.  To finish the carton off I added a brown gingham ribbon with a button and some twine.

Here's another idea for a carton using the Fall/Halloween Milk Carton set.  For this carton I used the template with the spider cut out. 

The purple spider paper came from the new StudioG products line that Walmart is selling for 97 cents.  This paper comes in a package with seven different prints.  I have to say that they are thin papers so if you want to use them on these containers you may need to back them with a heavier cardstock.  That's what I did for this container.  I cut the template twice, once from black cardstock and then again from the purple print and glued them together before folding the carton up.  I tied a small black and white twine bow and added a button to the center for the spider to dangle from.  Then I used one of the sentiments for the milk cartons and printed it on a tag, it says Got Treats.  The final touch was the googly eyes and a gingham bow at the top.  I'll be making lots more of these adorable cartons for other holidays.  The possibilities are endless with The Cutting Cafe Milk Carton templates.  If you'd like the chance to win the Milk Carton template I used for my project just leave me a comment.  You'll want to make sure you check out the favorite cuts from the rest of the DT.   You can find the list of designers at The Cutting Cafe Blog.