Christmas Project by Shimelle Laine

Congrats to the winner of the box of American Crafts Christmas ribbon, Robin Hanning:

 

Shimelle Laine finishes up the week with an altered advent calendar!

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Advent Calendar by Shimelle Laine

I happened upon this advent box in a Christmas sale two years ago, and while I liked the structure of the box with its big, sturdy drawers for each day's surprise, the colours and illustrations just weren't my style. This year I've decorated it with papers and embellishments from Hollyday plus my favourite of the versatile woodgrain designs from the Campy Trails collection.  Sets of drawers with identical sized compartments make it easy to replicate the paper covers once you make a template and mine was a rectangle with a semi-circle punched from the top. Choose one fewer papers than there are columns of drawers to create the diagonal repeat of patterns. It reminds me a bit of Connect4! Then embellish the front of each drawer in any way you like. I decided not to add numbers on the outside because the contents of each drawer included the number and they count down in order. By not using numbers, I had plenty of freedom to use various stickers and details from the Hollyday line!

Supplies: Man With The Bag Paper (35494) - Hollyday, Santa Baby Paper (35482) - Hollyday, Little St. Nick Paper (35495) - Hollyday, Cedar River Trail Paper (35359) - Campy Trails, Peppermint (72104) - Delights, Shiny (78052) - Details, Poinsettia (42202) - Remarks, Winter Wonderland (42201) - Remarks, Elf Red (43210) - Thickers

Next week is the last week we'll be featuring Christmas projects galore! See you back here Monday morning!

Comments

[Pam Spradlin]

That advent calendar is wonderful...thank you for sharing it with us.

[Rosie N.]

That is a fantastic project, great work Shimelle!