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Homemade advent calendar

28 Saturday Nov 2015

Posted by Carolyn in 1 1/4 inch circle, 1 inch circle, 3D projects, Home decorating, Star, Tutorial, Washi tape

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advent calendar, christmas craft, homemade advent calendar

I am ridiculously excited to show you what I’ve been working on over the past few days – an advent calendar!

  
I’ve just hung it on my wall after extracting solemn promises from Mr 6 that it will not be touched before 1 December! 

This is made with match boxes, a baking tray, magnets and glitter Washi tape to cover the boxes.  I also grabbed a few Christmas decorations to stick on the edge.  (And nothing but super glue worked to stick those suckers onto the metal!)

Here are some photos of how I put it all together:

   
    
    
    

    

  
  
The Washi tape is a Selley’s pack I bought at Costco. 
The numbers are a free download from http://justsomethingimade.com/2009/10/simple-spool-advent-calendars/.  

They work with a 1 inch circle punch.   I also used Stampin’ Up!’s glitter sheets and my  1 1/4 inch circle and star punches as backgrounds for the numbers. 

I stuck magnets on the back of each box so they would stick to the baking tray. 

I also used sticky strip to run sequins along the side edges of the tray and some Washi tape and glitter glue for the top and bottom. 

I stuck it to the wall using 3M removable hanging strips. 

So there you have it – my glittery, sparkly home made advent calendar.  Anyone got any ideas for what to do with hundreds of spare matches? đŸ˜‰ 

Thanks for reading. 

Caro

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Ninjago birthday cards

22 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by Carolyn in Birthday, Kids cards, Kids craft ideas, Kids party

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Kids cards, Ninjago birthday cards, Ninjago Lego cards

My son and his friend are obsessed by Ninjago Lego.   So I’ve had to come up with a quick and simple Ninjago birthday card for all those birthday parties! 

  
This is all thanks to the kind folks at http://www.halegrafx.com who have some free downloadable Ninjago eye packs. 

I downloaded the 3 and 5 inch sheet, cut out the 5 inch eyes and stuck them on some red cards (my son loves the red ninja but they would work equally well for the other coloured ninjas!). 

I have a stash of red wrapping paper – voila, a Ninjago present! 

  
(Ninjago Lego inside of course!!!) 

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Covered notebooks

16 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by Carolyn in Home decorating, Notebooks, Using up scraps

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covered notebooks, upcycled note book

I play the piano, and have lots of music in those cheap plastic insert display/sleeve folders.   Each time I play, I think they are very ugly and definitely could do with some “prettying up”. 

A quick trip to office works and raiding my paper stash later, and look at the collection of pretty music books I now have! 

   
    
 
Most of the papers come from The Sweet Stack paper stack I bought at Big W (I think!). 

They were just very cheap notebooks, but ended up looking rather lovely! 

  
  
Thanks for reading. 

Caro 

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Simple covered notebook

03 Tuesday Nov 2015

Posted by Carolyn in Home decorating, Notebooks, Using up scraps

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covered notebook

See this cute little notebook?

  
Five minutes ago it looked like this:

  
I was making some notes on a boring old regular, cheap, plain writing pad then decided to pretty it up. 

Five minutes with some scrap paper, a ruler, a paper cutter and some glue and my boring note pad was magically transformed into a cute notebook for my desk. 

 

Just measure the width of the writing pad and cut the paper to size, then fold and glue excess paper at the back. It works better if you score the fold line and score another half cm further along for where it needs to create a spine, but a simple fold works fine too.   This picture hopefully explains what I mean about the two scores half a can apart helping to create a “spine”

  
Now I can get back to work!  (The joys of working from home!)
Thanks for reading

Caro

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