Welcome to December 1st, the start of advent and of the most festive of times with your ATDML design team. Every Saturday and Wednesday this month one of the team will play Santa and pop up a crafty project to inspire some crafting this holiday season. There are no kits, no instructions, no rules, just images and the blog posts.
Today I am Santa and as it is the first of the month I thought I would create an advent calendar for you. This was made from 2 chipboard coasters and 24 plain matchboxes which were assembled into towers of three and then fixed together to form two blocks of twelve boxes which were adhered together, sandwiched between two covered coasters.
I have added a few images which hopefully show how this came together which was really simple once you got going.
The matchboxes were a bit flimsy when I got them but I covered the left and right side of each stack of three in a piece of the Kaisercraft Wonderland papers to hold them more securely. Then each door was covered in a number cut from the Wonderland foiled advent paper and a coordinating brad added which acts as a knob to pull the drawers open.
I appreciate you may not be inclined to copy this exactly but an advent inspired page is a good compromise for the challenge, or if you really want to challenge yourself you could make all the boxes from scratch (and not used ready made blank matchboxes like I did!)
We have created an album over on Facebook for you to share your projects or you can add a link in the comments section of the relevant blog post - the choice is yours.
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