2012 Artisan Facebook Friday

Welcome to the Artisan Design Team's Blog Hop for the November Facebook projects!

You should have just arrived from Wendy's blog. If not, make sure you go back and check out the beautiful banner that she created for her mantle, it's amazing!

For this months Facebook project I created an advent calendar. The colors from the Candlelight Christmas Designer Series paper along with the Silver Glimmer Paper were the starting point for the calendar. I embellished a tag for each of the days in December using the Ornament Keepsake and Scentsational bundles. 

I have a canvas above my buffet in the dining room that is blank. I am planning on painting something, I just don't know what yet. So far the canvas has had giant flowers, giraffe print fabric and now an advent calendar on it. I might just leave it blank and change it up all the time!

This advent calendar is a little bit different than most calendars. Instead of giving a candy or chocolate each day, I printed labels that are on the back of each tag. Each one lists an activity or something we can do together that day as a family. 

So far we have done, 1) Gingerbread house, 2) decorate your tree, 3) choose a treat, 4) bake cookies, 5) make a list for Santa, 6) Movie night with popcorn. 

There are lots of really fun ones coming up - tobogganing, read a Christmas book, set up Playmobil nativity, make a gift for your teacher, a Lego mini figure, drive around and look at Christmas lights, wrap gifts, make a Christmas craft, take a family picture, donate 3 toys to charity, read the Christmas story, and a whole bunch more.

Lots of fun activities and a few treats in between:

A close up of a few of the tags:

Each tag is held to a piece of Very Vanilla seam binding ribbon with a clothespin. The clothespins have a little bling added to them, I used a piece of sticky strip and Silver Glass Glitter.

Stamps: 

128927 (wood-mount) or 128930 (clear-mount): Border Banter

128048 (wood-mount) or 128051 (clear-mount): Ornament Keepsakes

128030 (wood-mount) or 128033 (clear-mount): Greetings of the Season

121026 (wood-mount) or 121190 (clear-mount): Scentsational Season

Ink: 

126974: Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

126949: Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

126984: Lucky Limeade Classic Stampin' Pad

Paper: 

101650: Very Vanilla Card Stock

119686: Early Espresso Card Stock

102482: Real Red Card Stock

122926: Lucky Limeade Card Stock

120953: Crumb Cake Card Stock

124005: Silver Glimmer Paper

126901: Candlelight Christmas Designer Series Paper

Accessories & Tool:

124117: Dazzling Details

120995: Silver Glass Stampin’ Glitter

125572: Lucky Limeade Bakers Twine

123125: Cherry Cobbler Bakers Twine

123124: Early Espresso Bakers Twine

120992: Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon

120999: Very Vanilla Seam Binding Ribbon

127841: Cherry Cobbler Scalloped Tulle Ribbon

127839: Early Espresso Scalloped Tulle Ribbon

119256: Old Olive 1/8 Taffeta Ribbon

119246: Rhinestone Basic Jewels

119877: 1 3/8 Square Punch

119850: 1 3/4 Circle punch

120906: 2 1/2 Circle punch

120907: Decorative Label Punch

118874: 2 3/8 Scallop Circle Punch

113439: Big Shot

127816: Holiday Ornaments Framelits

125598: Labels Collection Framelits

127814: Holiday Collection Framelits

127749: Chevron Embossing Folder

127553: Typeset Alphabet Bigz Dies
104430: Stampin’ Dimensionals
103683: Glue Dots
104294: Sticky Strip

Other: Clothespins, hot glue gun

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my November project. 

Please continue on to Cindy's project, a gorgeous card using a faux patina technique!