Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

Hello and welcome to the Advent Calendar Blog Hop!!! I’m so happy that you are hopping with us. First things first, if you came here from Michelle’s blog then you are in the right spot. If you landed here by chance and want to play along or need to get back to the beginning of the hop, please start here at Angelica’s blog. If this is your first time to primpedinpaper.com, I want to say welcome and I hope you find my blog inspiring.

Let’s get started! I’m thrilled to be part of another Hop hosted by the sweet and talented Ruthie.  This Hop includes 16 awesome ladies. I’m excited to be included in this group of talented paper crafters. Thank you Ruthie for hosting another amazing Hop!

This is my first time making an Advent Calender so I was really looking forward to this project. I decided to challenge myself to not use my Cricut. I wanted this Advent Calendar to be something that anyone could put together with minimal supplies. So I got out my Christmas patterned paper stacks, punches, strands of beads, glitter, one very cute set of Lawn Fawn stamps and my hot glue gun. Then I went to town! Click photo’s to see a bigger picture.

2010 Advent Calendar

Each cone is made from a 5x5 piece of patterned paper.

The tissue paper is hand stamped with a peppermint stamp from Sassafras. The cute animals are from the Lawn Fawn, Critters in the Snow stamp set.

I decided to use my circle punch since almost everyone has one in their craft supplies.

The cones are hung with clothes pins that I glittered. The red flower on cone 25 was made by my good friend Susan (suziecrafter).

I hope you liked my Advent Calender. It was a lot of fun to make and I think it looks very festive hanging on my fireplace. Now I just need to get some goodies to put inside the cones. At the bottom of the post I listed the products I used to embellish my Calendar. Whether you keep it simple or embellish it to max, I think it will look amazing. The most important things to me are that all ages can help make it, you don’t need a lot of supplies and of course that you have fun!

Thank you so much for hopping with us today! Before I send you off to your next stop. I have some Blog Candy!!! I apologize for not have a photo of it. But the Blog Candy is a collection of holiday stamped images (which I can stamp in your choice of Black StazOn or Tuxedo Black Memento ink, 20  5×5 sheets of Christmas patterned papers, fibers and some other goodies.

If you would like to be eligible to win all you have to do is leave me a comment. Comments for the blog candy will close at 11:59pm pst Monday Nov. 29. I’ll post the winner on Tuesday afternoon.

Now it’s time for you to head on over to Raven’s blog. I know she’s got an awesome Advent Calendar for you! Just click the button below and you’ll be taken to her blog.

Products used:

• Paperstacks  – Peppermint Forest, DCWV Christmas Combo Stack
• Border punches – EKSuccess, Martha Stewart Drippy Goo, Fiskars Threading Water
• Snowflake punches – Martha Stewart
• Gold and White Beads – Joann Crafts
• Stamps – Lawn Fawn Critters in the Snow, Making Memories Calendar Stamps
• Distress Ink – Vintage Photo, Broken China
• Embossing Folders – Cuttlebug Swiss Dots, Swirls
• Clothes Pins – 1 3/4 inch. Purchased at Fred Meyer. Can also be found at Walmart, Michaels, Joann’s

If I have left out anything that you would like to know about or if you have any questions, please ask. Be sure to leave a way for me to get back to you. Thank you so much!

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I found this beautiful black & white floral design very inspiring for a card. It’s a family members duvet cover and reminds me of patterned paper. I hope this inspires you too.

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