Sunday, July 24, 2011

Christmas in July Guest Designer Day 7

Today is my last day of being Guest Designer over at http://www.crossmyheartpapercrafts.blogspot.com/ Its been lots of fun! For Todays project we were asked to make an Advent Christmas Project. I use and Advent Calender for my Children at Christmas time every year. They both go to Catholic School and have learned about lighting the Advent Candles for the coming of Jesus birth. Advent is from the Latin word Adventus which means coming. This advent Calender which I purchased at Starbucks the day after Christmas is  shaped like a Christmas tree. I covered it with Christmas Patterned Paper. Cut the numbers out with my Cricut at .5 inches using my cricut and the Plantain Schoolbook Cartridige. I punched out some holly leaves and snowflakes wuth some punches and cut out some stars, gingerbread people and some trees with Quickutz dies that I have. I also used a Large Bow button for the top of the tree and some buttons for berries on the holly leaves.
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13 comments:

  1. Great Advent Calendar--I like the tree shape. Do you know what you are putting inside yet?
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  2. What a great advent calendar! I love this and used to have these for my kids when they were young! :)Amy
    amyscraftingspace.blogspot.com

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  3. LOVE the Advent calender. Great idea!
    flerdee01@gmail.com

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  4. Like the Advent calendar. Reminds me of when my daughter was younger and I would buy her an Advent calendar. I did not have a Cricut back then.
    Melissa
    "Sunshine HoneyBee"
    http://CreatedbySunshineHoneyBee.blogspot.com

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  5. GREAT ADVENT CALENDAR
    lmkindell1@verizon.net
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  6. I like how you were able to take a purchased calendar and jazz it up. It would have been great to see a "before" picture though!

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  7. Yes,very nice. I wold have like to see the b4 and then after:)

    TFS
    mexicopetshop at hotmail dot com

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  8. that's awesome!

    sweetlilscrapper.blogspot.com
    sweetlilscrapper at hotmail dot ca

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  9. Wow is this cute! You are my kind of crafter! I enjoy finding things I can "jazz" up and I can tell you do too. And you do it very well! :)

    Susan
    cricutandgrasshopper.blogspot.com

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  10. This is a fab project and something I can do with my son:) TFS
    Hugs

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  11. wow! Fantastic project! Very good job!

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  12. This is a great advent calender!

    Carri~abusybee
    www.doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com

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  13. WOW...looks like you put a ton of work into this calender!!! It turned out wonderful...great job!!!

    hugs,
    Sarah

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