Sugar-Cookie Buttons

"These buttery delights are cute as, well, you know. Gather a stack together by threading ribbon through the buttonholes, and present the cookies in a perfectly sized papier-mâché box with a snowflake stenciled on the lid. Papier-mâché boxes, $0.67 each; 4-inch D; consumercrafts.com. Snowflake stencils, $14.95 for three; theartfulstencil.com. Folk Art acrylic paint in Winter White, $1.59 for 2-ounch pot; plaidonline.com. Ribbon, $0.79 per yard; M&J Trimming, 800-965-8746...."