Saturday, December 4, 2010

Advent Calendar

Here is my project I have been working on for the last two days. Last Christmas I made my mom an Advent Calendar so this year she asked if I was making one for her this year. So, I thought why not. So off to Google I went and did a search for Cricut Advent Calendars. Here is the site I found for inspiration.http://www.bubblyfunk.co.uk/tracie-hudson-christmas-advent-a-39.html.

This calendar was made using small matchboxes. Of course I thought I can make those. I used the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More, Cricut Cartridge and cut 24 matchboxes. I cut the drawer part at 3" but had to enlarge the box part so the drawers went in easier. I resized the box part of the cut on my Gypsy and cut them at 3.08". The boxes were scored and assembled using Score-Tape. I added green and red brads from American Crafts. Directions on how to create this project can be found on the link above. I used two 6" X 6" pieces of chipboard for the top and bottom portions of the "cabinet". For the top I cut Christmas Wishes from the Winter Frolic Cartridge at 2 1/2". Cuts for the sides were cut at 1 1/2". I cut the numbers for the drawers at .45" using the Roly Poly font from the Plantin Schoolbook Cartridge.

The mittens were so small when I cut them I couldn't use the snowflakes that were cut to go on top of them. Instead, I used my white gel pen to draw in the snowflakes and then used my Quickie Glue Pen to apply glue and Martha Stewart Sugar Cube glitter. I also used the same glue and glitter for the white cuff's of the mittens.





Patterned Paper: DCWV Christmas Stack
Paper: Bazzill Card Stock, and Scraps from Stash
Cartridges: 
Winter Frolic -Sentiment
Simply Charmed - Santa and Chimney
Jolly Holidays - Mittens, Noel Banner, Gingerbread Man
Doodlecharms - Stocking
Tree and Snowflake Buttons
Adhesive
Beacons 3 in 1 Glue (buttons)
Score-Tape (boxes and cabinet)
ATG Gun
Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive
Quickie Glue Pen (numbers)
Foam Tape
Stickles
Lime Green
Christmas Red
Stardust
Brads - American Craft Burgundy and Leaf Green
Martha Stewart Sugar Cube fine glitter

9 comments:

  1. Wow! This is really neat. I sure hope your mom liked it. Thanks for visiting the Snowy Winter Hop.

    Georgiana

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  2. This is hands down the coolest advents calendar I have seen!!! Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Wow, this is fantastic. Thanks for sharing it with us at Paper Cutz.

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  4. Awesome project. My grandsons would love it. Thanks for the step by step instructions. And thanks for sharing with Paper Cutz Challenge

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  5. this is wonderful - I don't have a Circut yet but maybe sometime next year I can get one.
    Sandy D

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  6. Wow that is just beautiful. What a great idea. I might have to scrapit. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. Very Very Nice, I want to try this
    Carina
    http://paperjunkiemama.blogspot.com/

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  8. Great job! TFS, became a follower.

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