Nov 23, 2011
Christmas is Just Around the Corner!
There are only 31 days left until Christmas! It’s true, take a look at the calendar! It’s coming fast this year.
This year I’m hosting Christmas dinner at my house (no, you’re not invited, sorry…). I’m going to need to do an extra huge bird because we have a large family. I enjoy hosting dinners at our place and really love going the extra mile and creating everything from scratch. A friend of mine once told me that she uses canned gravy and boxed stuffing for Christmas dinner. Needless to say, I was horrified! LOL! That’s okay for every other day of the year, but not for Christmas! What would Santa think? Would that be enough to get you onto the Naughty List, or would he have forgiven you by the following year? I’m not willing to take that chance.
Speaking of going the extra mile, this year I created a special advent calendar for my kids. They don’t know about it yet, so please don’t mention it in their presence if you know me in real life. I’m going to give it to them as a gift on December 1st. It’s large enough to hold 3 mini chocolates in each drawer. They are going to be super excited about this.
I used Echo Park’s Season’s Greetings for the majority of the project. I love this paper line. I consider it to be the best Christmas paper line this year. I also used a little bit of Graphic 45 paper that I had left over from their Christmas Past line from last year. Some of the other products that I used are baker’s twine from The Twinery, a Santa Claus ornament from Hallmark Cards, a mini Christmas tree from Michael’s and several digital die cut files from Silhouette America. I currently have the Silhouette SD and I’m looking forward to upgrading to The Cameo soon!
I covered the entire Kaiser Craft advent calendar in Echo Park and Graphic 45 paper, along with red and gold paint. The gold paint is really high quality, which was important to get that really shiny gold look. It’s an acrylic paint by Golden.
I embellished the chipboard wreath by adding a baker’s twine and ribbon bow to it, and some Stickles. Everyone needs Stickles! The other chipboard items were embellished by layering them and by adding crystals.
A closeup of the presents. I individually wrapped tiny piece of chipboard and tied them up with baker’s twine and twine. The tiny gift bag was made using a Silhouette gift bag cut file, baker’s twine from The Twinery and some tissue paper.
The fireplace and the stockings are also digital cut files from Silhouette. The stockings are a design from Echo Park, available in the Silhouette America store. I used The Twinery’s baker’s twine to hang the stockings from the fireplace and tiny brads to keep them in place. The mantle clock is a chipboard piece from Echo Park — i just drew the hands on.
