I use altoid tins for my tools, you'd be surprised what all can fit in there. Right now I'm hand sewing little houses and the tin has 1 spool of mettler thread, thread heaven, stork scissors and something else but I can't remember right now
I used to make them as raffle prizes when the Dear Janes had cyber retreats, too cute to be legal. for the project itself I use zip lock baggies.
When I was doing my little hexie project I took a print out of the hexie size I wanted and had Office Max print it on heavy cardstock. Cost next to nothing.