As you may know the theme of this blog was to make something that fit into a tradition that is celebrated this time of the year. Ever since I was little, I can remember celebrating the entire month of December with a fun German Advent Calendar. My family didn't have too many traditions outside of putting up a tree and decorating for the holidays. I loved this as a little kid, counting down the days until Christmas and of course getting that special little chocolate treat. I decided to make my own advent calendar to hang up in our house to count the days down.
I started with a black sign that I bought at Target during the after Halloween sales for 2.99. It had some silly saying on it and at the time I knew I would be covering that up! I needed to use some 12x24 paper as this is larger than 12 inches and I wanted the paper to flow nicely. I found this great paper pack from DCWV that has adhesive on the back, so nice! I used my gypsy to design the rest of it, using the font from Winter Woodland, the Santa from Christmas Cheer, the ornaments from Joys of the Season along with the Christmas from Merry Christmas (I hid the Merry so it wouldn't cut). I used velcro adhesive to attach felt numbers onto the ornaments for the countdown numbers.
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