ADVENT CALENDAR BOOKS
Hey everyone....
It's been longer than I thought since I've been here but
I wanted to share this awesome project. I found this great
tutorial for an Advent Calendar Book and decided to
make them for my grandaughters.
The insides are identical thats why there is
only one picture
I changed the spine size to 3" and adjusted the size
of the boxes from 1" deep to 1.25" deep so a
scrunchie would fit...lol!!
I made all the boxes from white 68lb cardstock
and cut print card stock for each.
Tip: I have found in the many projects I have done
that its hard to get a crisp fold on heavy cardstock
and its my opinion that you can add strength to any
lighter weight cardstock box by gluing layers like
I did here with the print cardstock.
This also applies to multiple layers of die cut
letters, frames etc.
I was really happy with the way they turned out!!
I painted the High Hopes Rubber Stamps
images with Tombow markers.
I used my older circle dies and a set of lower case
letters I bought a few years ago.
I was missing a lot of stuff to even start these books
and being Covid I had to shop for the rest online.
I purchased the heavy chipboard, strong tape,
all the papers and sparkle paper for the box numbers
from a great shop in Windsor, Nova Scotia
My Stamping Studio!!
I hope you like my advent books and here are
the links to the original designer of this project
Thanks so much for stopping by...
Karen x
