Little Black Dress: Chrismtas

December 1, 2014

Counting Down To Christmas

Its 12 Days of Christmas Link Up Party with Unruly PaperArts. From Dec 1st thru Dec 12th. Create a Christmas project and link it up, then be sure to go and spread some love to the link before your project and the two links right after your link.

For my project I made a Christmas Countdown Calender using a cookie sheet. This was such a fun project... If you have a ton of little embellishments sitting around your craft room, like bells, flowers, snowflakes etc... this is a great project to put them to use. I saw this project done years ago at a scrapbook store that I worked at and fell in love with it. So this is my version.

I embroidered "December" for the top banner, the main portion of the cookie sheet was covered with chalkboard paint and once dried I used white ink to draw the grid blocks.

Using small squares of wood for the base, I painted and then made little themed collages for each day of December. Little magnets were then glued to the back of each square which will hold perfectly on your metal cookie sheet. At the top of the cookie sheet I used my crop a dial and punched two holes then ran ribbon through it, tied a bow and now it's ready to hang on your wall. It's so much fun thinking of ideas for each day. This is a gift for a special friend to enjoy with her grandchildren.