Winter Wonderland - Open Theme

I'd like to say a huge thank you to the team over at Winter Wonderland for having me as their guest for the last couple of weeks and I feel so privileged to have had my cards and projects showcased on their wonderful blog.

This week the very talented Teri (who is not only on the Design Team but also has her very own Digital Stamp Shop) has kindly given us a very beautiful image of a Dove to work with and I have absolutely fallen in love with it. You can find more of Teri's digital stamps here. If you use Copics the printer ink doesn't 'bleed' when colouring!

These are the cards I made:-

Items used:-

1st card:-

DP - Basic Grey "Eskimo Kisses" 6x6 paper pad

Distress Ink - Broken China

Copics

Craftwork Cards - Poinsettias and Card Candy

Woodware Holly Punch

Bazzill Card Stock

Nestabilities

Glamour Dust

American Crafts Rub-Ons

2nd card:-

Stampin Up - Medallion Stamp

Distress Ink - Broken China

Copics

Melissa Frances Rub-Ons

Ribbon from stash

Glamour Dust

3rd card:-

Distress Ink - Broken China

Copics

Nestabilities

Krylon silver Leafing Pen

Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Dovecraft Snowflake Punch

I also made the above Advent Calendar which started out as being a flat one! I made 24 very simple pockets (instructions below) and placed 6 rows of 4 of them onto a sheet of black card. Then I thought it was going to be too big so I scored between each row and joined the ends and made a cylinder. At this point it stood on it's own and was very sturdy so I thought it would be a good idea to fill it with treats and the pockets could contain little notes that instructed how many treats could be had on that day I cut 6 strips of felt slightly bigger than each of the sides, sewed them together and then cut a circle of felt and sewed that into the bottom to make the liner, I then added a lace edge to the top.

To make the pockets:-

Cut a strip of paper 15cms x 6cms

Score at 4cms and 10cms and fold edges together.

Use a Corner Rounder for the Top Flap and a Circle Punch to punch a half circle out of the edge of the Bottom Flap.

Glue the sides to form a pocket.

Cut out Circles of Co-ordinating Card Stock using a 1" punch and glue just the bottom half of the circle to the pocket so that the top flap slips under it to close.

Print the numbers 1 to 24 and cut out using a 3/4" punch and adhere to larger circle.

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Another idea I thought of was that the pockets could contain those Chocolate Coins as they are flat enough to fit into them and a Christmas Floral Arrangement could be placed in the centre. You wouldn't have to make a liner then!

Lynda xxx