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Let’s create a Treat Holder from scraps around the craft room

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First off I want to say how sorry I am from being behind on posting to my blog.  I have been helping with my grandson as my daughter-in-law is having their second son on Friday.  So I have been doing extra Onni duty.

So today I needed to create a fun candy cane holder but I wanted to use scraps that I had around my room.

As you can see, the one on the left is a bit larger.  I also did 1/2″ scoring on the original holder but decided I prefer the 1/4″ as shown on the video and posted in the measurements below.  This is the one I created on the video.  After the video I was wondering why I got stumped with the measurements and I figured it out so the measurements I put here are the correct ones….

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