Saturday 6 September 2014

Pinkies Autumn Winter Blog Hop: A Stampin' Up! White Christmas Countdown

Thank you for joining us on another Pinkies Blog Hop! We're showcasing lots of gorgeous projects using products from the new Stampin' Up!® Autumn/Winter Seasonal Catalogue. Simply use the buttons at the end of each post to keep hopping!

Welcome to my little Isle of Wight piece of the hop today. Thank you for joining me from Nina's blog. I hope you enjoyed the creative inspiration she shared.

My project was something I came up with for my August Christmas Craft Days. I wanted an extra little something special for my ladies to take away so came up with this Christmas Advent/Countdown Calendar.


The colour scheme is taken directly from the Nordic Noel Designer Series Paper which I used to cover the date blocks. I used Garden Green and Real Red cardstock for the holder and mini boxes.


The numbers were stamped using the Memorable Moments stamp set and punched using the Bracket Label Punch. I stamped the 'December' using the Skinny Mini Alphabet (my ladies chose to stamp this to say 'Days to Go' to make the holder in to an Advent Calendar counting down the days).


And finally I created this focal image using the fabulous new stamp set, White Christmas. I love the simplicity of lining everything up with the photopolymer stamps. No worrying about lining up the Merry Christmas banner between the trees and adding in the snowman and polar bear. It was such a fun image to create and cannot wait to have this out on display throughout December.


Thank you for joining me today. Please hop on over to Christa's to continue the blog hop inspiration.


Please let me know if you have any questions about this project. You can get in touch via email: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 01983 609249. I'm more than happy to help. All Stampin' Up! products can be ordered through my online store by clicking the product links above or the pictures below. Or get in touch direct and I'll happily place an order for you.

Happy Crafting
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15 comments:

  1. What a wonderful idea, I bet your girls will enjoy counting down the days to Christmas and what fun you will have this year with them. Beautiful project Sarah, thanks for the inspiration x

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  2. Really great idea The Ladies were surely very pleased

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  3. What a fabulous project Sarah! I love the cute little snowy scene! Vicky x

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  4. Love this calender idea, good job!

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  5. Hi Sarah
    Love those blocks, great idea.
    Can you tell me/us what numbers need to go onto each block in order to be able to make every number please? (I seem to be struggling...)
    Thanks xx

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    1. Hiya, it took me (and my other half) a while to work it out too!! You need 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on one block and 0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8. It took me ages to realise the 6 would also be the 9! I hope that helps ;0) xx

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  6. Wonderful project and love how cute it is too!

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  7. Such a pretty way to countdown to Christmas!

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  8. Great idea - I'm sure my boys would love one of these too :-)

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  9. Very cute! Sarah do have a tutorial or can you share how you made the holder?
    Thanks.

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    1. Hiya Pam, thank you for your kind comment ;0) The tutorial I used for the base can be found here: http://onehappystamper.typepad.com/stamping_inspirations_wit/2012/11/mft-pep-rally.html

      I modified the small box size to make mine 2" square.

      I hope that helps and happy making ;0)

      Sarah
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  10. What a great idea! I'll be making one of these for sure!

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  11. Lovely project Sarah! Great way to use the alphabets.
    x Caro

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