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6 Advent Calendars for Your Christmas Countdown

November 27, 2017 by Francine Clouden

If you’re looking for DIY options for your Advent Calendar/Christmas Countdown this year, hear are five stellar options. Even if you have bought a ready-made calendar, you can still use these ideas. I got my son a Playmobil calendar, but I plan to take the toys out and put them in my own cute packaging instead! So use and adapt these ideas to suit your needs.

Check out these advent calendars from our very own sister site Craftbits.com –  you can make yourself at home. Homemade advent calendars allow you to customize the design and size to suit the gifts you wish to use.  Want to buy a ready made calendar instead? Check out these Advent Calendars ready to go on Amazon.

No-Sew Muslin Advent Calendar — CraftBits.com

Advent Calender – 12 Days Of Christmas — CraftBits.com

Advent Calendar Using Brown Paper Bags — CraftBits.com

Recycled CD Advent Calender — CraftBits.com

Magnetic Advent Calendar — CraftBits.com 

Want more ideas for Advent calendars? We have a dedicated Pinterest board here for DIY Advent Calendars. 

 

Focus on the spirit of Christmas this year with a service Advent calendar. This will help you and your family do acts of service in your community.

See more at Doodler Craft Blog

 

 

This gorgeous minimalist idea comes from to us from Germany. Use Google translate to read it all, but the photos are pretty self-explanatory. Attach paper stars and wooden numbers to each paper sack. The good thing about this idea is that the supplies can be reused year after year.

See more at Casa di Falcone

Numbered boxes are kind of an Advent Calendar tradition, and this version is great! Buy already patterned boxes at the craft store, or make your own, then add numbered tags. You can make the tags from scratch too.

Here’s another idea from Germany. Stitch the toys or treats into these red and craft patterned sacks, and stack them in a wooden tray. You could even make the sacks yourself with wrapping paper.

See more at Naturlich Creative

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This one will be quick to whip up using lunch sacks and the free printable numbers. It should take you about 45 minutes to pull this together once you’ve gathered all the supplies.

See more at Marla Meridith

If your kids are obsessed with receiving mail (and honestly what kid isn’t?), this is the perfect idea. Make this mini-mail packages, and sneak them into the mailbox every day, or add them to the mail stack when you bring the mail inside. These litle packages look like they came directly from the North Pole!

See more at Oh Happy Day

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12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

This stunning wedding layout has two floral pattern papers with a layered lacey border in between. There’s intricate die cut matts behind the photos, a place for journaling along with flowers and butterflies tucked all around. I love the metallic gold, so classy and elegant! Take a closer look at the Anna Griffin blog.

June is still one of the most popular months for weddings so if you attended a wedding or had one of your own last month you might be ready to work on scrapbooking all those happy memories. Gather up all your floral, metallic and black and white scrapbooking supplies and check out some of these amazing  wedding scrapbook layout ideas to get you inspired to start scrapping that happiest of days.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

This marvelous mosaic style layout from Jodi has room for lots of photos. There’s also several die cut heart borders and a spotlight die cut section that really pulls in the eye. I love all the neutral colors she used, it helps the photos pop! Learn more at the Mosaic Moments blog.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

Alicia’s stunning double page spread has so much detail and layers in soft pastel colors. She helped tie the two sides together by carrying over the wide background border and some of the golden flag banners and flowers. There’s so much beautiful lace, florals and wedding accents, it’s feast for the eyes! Watch her process video at the Paper Craft Secrets blog.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

This lovely layout pulls colors from the photos with green and burgundy in the photo matts, pattern papers and florals. But the beauty of this design is the stacked repeated dove border created with a long border punch from grey scale papers. Find directions at the Creative Memories blog.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

Julie used soft pink, white and off white for the color scheme on her amazing wedding layout. There’s so much depth and texture from stitching, chipboard frames and sentiments, fabric patches, a thick acrylic title, twine and paint splatter. Take a detailed look at the Hey Little Magpie blog.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

Michelle’s layout is perfect for an old fashioned themed wedding or for scrapping actual vintage wedding photos. She used sepia tones with petite polka dot patterns with old timey roses along with mixed media like leather looking tabs,  faux stitching, a locket, postage stamps and torn paper. Take a closer peek at the 49th and Market blog.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

If you don’t have floral embellishments in the colors you need them create them yourself like Jenny did here. She stamped and colored her florals to match the pattern paper and wedding bouquet blooms perfectly along with a stamped title too. Find more info at A Stamping Journey blog.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

I love Joanna’s idea of including wedding photos from as many family members as you can through out the years, it’s such a romantic tribute! Each photo has a wide white matt with the couples names, all on vintage looking paper, along with a large card for the title and a space for journaling. Learn more at the Katie Pertiet Designs blog.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

Ali’s amazing wedding layout has a patchwork quilt feeling above and below the photo. She cut squares from different pattern papers stitching around the edges of each one and punching out hearts from some too. There’s also pretty chipboard flowers and a title banner around the pic. I came across her idea on the Simple Stories Instagram page.

12 Wonderful Wedding Layout Ideas

Don’t forget to document the search for that perfect Say Yes to the Dress moment like Linz did on her double page layout. The rich burgundy background gives weight to the soft pastel florals and white wedding dress, there’s also a few aged die cut doilies and some torn vellum for journaling. I came across her idea in her Linz Nobliski gallery at Scrapbook.com.

Melody’s beautiful design is another example of creating your own custom embellishments that go perfectly with your photos. She used gold foiling on peach cardstock as well as die cut vines and tiny flowers with the title on a die cut banner and scalloped circle. The brick background paper also works so nicely with the photo background too. Take a closer peek at the Spellbinders blog.

Look at the dress colors on the women in the photo and then look at the color of stripes down the center of Tammy’s layout, she matched them perfectly and I love this colorful wedding idea! She also added accents and embellishments in each section in the same colors, so clever! There’s also vellum and stitching for added texture. I came across her page on the Rosie Studio Instagram page.

I hope you’ve found some inspiration to create your own lovely layouts for weddings!

-Heather

Looking for wedding scrapbook supplies, we recommend A Cherry on Top.com

 

 

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