Christmas Countdown

Happy Monday! Hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday! We sure did. But I can’t believe its almost time to start out Christmas Countdown already!!! wow! Is December really just around the corner? yikes! Christmas is so rich with tradition and an advent calendar is one of our favorite traditions. My oldest is now 4 and he’s really getting into the Christmas spirit this year. So its fun to have little traditions like this to make it fun for the kiddos!

Christmas Countdown

christmas countdown

I used Silhouette’s 2012 Limited Edition Advent Calendar this year. {you can see last year’s advent calendar here!} My theme was “Brown Paper Packages”. This advent comes with envelope shapes to cut with my Silhouette CAMEO or the new PORTRAIT, but I decided I wanted a small little package so that it could hold a little candy. I always grew up with a candy Christmas Countdown, so I wanted to continue doing the candy as the prize for each day.

christmas countdown frame

Brown Paper Packages

christmas advent

The cute little boxes are cut from brown kraft paper. They measure about 2.5″ from top to bottom and they fit perfectly in the advent frame! Its projects like this that make me absolutely love my Silhouette! If I had used other digital cutting tools, I would not have been able to resize and reshape the design to fit my needs for this advent calendar. I was able to tweak the design to fit just right. {Silhouette Studio lets you manipulate any shape to be longer, wider, taller, larger, smaller, whatever you want!} I then used the free form circle tool in the Silhouette Studio to create 2 sizes of circles and cut them out to place behind the numbers, which were also cut with my CAMEO.

I do use the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition Software. It is an upgrade, but since I like to design some of my own stuff and tweak purchased designs, it makes it easier for me.

Silhouette Advent Calendar

christmas count down

I am in love with our Christmas Countdown! I have 2 little boys who are excited to devour the candy in each box each day! For them, December 1 can’t come quick enough!

happy crafting!

Linda

disclosure: I received free product from Silhouette America to try. I only promote products I love and think you’ll enjoy. Please see my complete disclosure page here. 

Linda
Hi! I'm Linda, the craft addict behind Craftaholics Anonymous®, a craft blog. Crafting is cheaper than therapy, right? When I'm not DIYing something, I can be found taxiing around our 4 crazy kids or working out. Or shoe shopping... because you can never have too many shoes! Happy crafting! ♥
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