Saturday, November 10, 2012

Advent Calendar

I've been wanting to make an advent calendar for quite some time. The Fun 'n' Flair's DT challenge this week was for us to make an advent calendar. I am using Miss Shayla at Christmas Time. It is the perfect stamp for me to use for my project.


I stamped the Christmas stocking on a variety of patterned paper and cut it out. I then pieced the stockings together. The numbers were all stamped onto the cuffs. I added some flowers and flourishes to the bottom corner. The Merry Christmas sign was cut out using Nestabilities dies. I then stamped the Christmas tree and adhered it onto the flower. This has been such a fun project and I am so happy that I finally have an advent calendar to use for Christmas this year. 


Here's a close-up of the stockings and flowers.


I would like to thank Julie at Cosmo Cricket for the beautiful papers from her giveaway. It is called Art Angel

Check out the Fun 'n' Flair blog to enter the sketch challenge to win this beautiful Miss Shayla at Christmas Time set. Sketch challenge ends this Friday.

Check out more fabulous DT inspirations at the Fun 'n' Flair blog.

I am linking to the following:

FOSTV - anything goes
Come and Get It Challenge - flourishes & swirls
Fussy and Fancy Challenge - pearls and flowers
One Stop Craft - anything goes
Sweet Stamping Challenge - anything goes
Crafty Catz Challenge - anything goes
Paper Crafting Journey - anything goes
Peachy Keen Stamp Challenge - anything goes 



22 comments:

Pamela said...

That is a fantastic project, thank you for joining us at Sweet Stampin'.
Pam x

Judy McKay said...

Lovely Christmas project. Thank you for joining us at Come and Get it this week.

Ravengirl said...

Love your advent calendar! The stocking are adorable as well as the rosettes that adorn the calendar!

Words and Pictures said...

Love your mix and match paper stockings - what a beautiful advent project. Thanks for sharing it with us at Fussy and Fancy!
Alison x

Janine said...

Gorgeous advent calendar - lovely stockings

Tracey T said...

What a wonderful Christmas project! You have put this together beautifully. Thank you for playing at Sweet Stampin' this week. Tracey x

Jenny said...

What a fabulous idea using different/co-ordinating colours for the stockings. Great job! Thanks so much for joining in our 'Anything Goes' challenge. x

Katie A. said...

I love your project! That must have taken a lot of time to paper piece all of those little pieces. You did a fantastic job!

<3, Katie A.
www.kdepiedesign.blogspot.com

Melissa said...

Wow! Very pretty advent calendar. I can't wait to see the next stamp set from Fun -n Flair. Thanks for posting at Peachy Keen Stamps Anything Goes Challenge this week.

stampingbowd said...

What a gorgeous stocking advent calendar!!!! Thanks for joining us at FOSTV this week!

Cindy :) said...

what a pretty advent calendar, love all those lil stockings :)

paper fun said...

Wow! Super project. You did a wonderful job on it.

Thanks for joining in our anything goes challenge at One Stop Craft Challenge.

Mari

Theresa's Studio said...

What a great project is your Advent calendar! Thanks for joining us at FOSTV.

Jackie said...

This turned out super cute! I love how you used the stockings, they work so well for this project. Great job!

carol said...

WOW fab creation, thanks for playing along with our Anything goes challenge at CRAFTY CATZ x carol

Wendy Fraser said...

Oh what a lovely project, so special, love it. Thanks for joining us at Fussy and Fancy xx

Cassandra said...

This is wonderful!!! What a great decor item and fun for the kids too! Great job :)

Davi said...

Kim the advent calendar is sooo cute! I love that you used the stocking :)

CRAZYCRAFTSHED said...

Gorgeous and beautiful calendar Kim thankyou for joining us this week at CraftyCatz
Hugs Dianne xx

Michelle said...

so very cute !!! love the stockings hung on the twine, cute cute !!! Thanks so much for participating in the Peachy Keen challenge this week!!!

Michelle - DT
www.scrappinwithmybug.com

Safdar Ali said...

What a stunning card. So lovely design. I like the colors and love the CAS style design like Plastic card which make the card POP. Thanks for sharing.

ali naqvi said...

Very cute card!!lovely colors used to make wonderful..Plastic Business card