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Billie’s Advent Calendar Project

You Will Need

12” x 12” Cardstock

A4 Cardstock

Metallic Card

Mat Board

Glue Stick

Scoring board or scoring tool

Steel Ruler

Cutting Mat

Craft Knife

Adirondack Acrylic Dabber; Black

Cuttlebug & Oliva Alphabet dies. Or number stamps/sticker

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Method

From the 12 x 12” Cardstock

Cut one sheet of 12” x 12” cardstock into 3” squares. You will now have 16 squares.

Cut three 3” x 12” strips from the second piece of 12” x 12” cardstock.

Cut two of the 3” x 12” strips into 3” x 3” squares. You now have 8 more squares

From the remaining 3” x 12” strip; cut this to 3” x 6”. Set this aside and cut what is left into 3” x 3” squares.

You now have one piece 3” x 6” [A] and 26 pieces 3” x 3” [B]

Score the 3” x 6” panel, along the long edge at 3” and 1½”

Fold the card in half at the 3” point, and then open up. Fold the 1½” panel into the centre. This becomes the

easel for the calendar.

The 3” x 3” squares will become your pages to decorate.

From the Mat board

Cut one piece to 3” x 3” This becomes the upper support to the easel [C].

Cut one piece to 3¼” x 3¼“ This becomes the base support to the easel [D].

Cut two pieces 2⅞”x 1¾” These become the stop block to the easel [F] & [G].

From Cardstock

Cut one piece 3” x 3” This becomes the panel at the base of the easel [E].

Cut one piece 2⅜” x 1⅜”. This becomes the panel behind the back of the upper panel to the easel.

Cut one piece 2¾” x 1¼”. This becomes the panel on top of the stop-block.[H]

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Assembly Instruction Pictures

1.Paint the edges of all the mat board pieces, tocolour any cut edges. Paint the back of the panelsup to about ½” in from the edge. Glue the greenpanel [E] to the back of mat panel [C].

2.Glue the easel panel [A] by the 3” x 3”area, to thetop of the mat board; panel [C].

3.Glue the base of mat board panel [D], to thebottom edge of the 1½” area of panel [A].

4.Glue two mat board panels [F&G] on top of eachother, allow to dry. Decorate the card panel [H]with your favourite stamps, then glue this piece tothe top of the layered mat board panels [F&G]

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Assembly Instructions; Continued.

5.Glue the layered panel [H, F, G] on to the loweredge of the easel base. Pic 4 & 5. This creates thestop block for the easel.

6.To use the easel, bring the lower edge of the 3”panel to the back edge of the stop block.

7.Use the numbers from the Olivia alphabet die tocut numbers from the metallic card.

Decorate each 3” x 3” page with your favouritestamps and inks. When your page design is finishedglue on a number.

Repeat this for each day of advent. You need 24pages in total.

Optional ExtrasCreate a box to store you additional pages, andstand your calendar on top of it

Create an extra box if you wish to add a daily treatfor someone

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and will make one of these calendars for yourself or friends & family.

For more tutorials, reviews and inspiration, do check out the blog; www.billiescraftroom.co.uk

Thanks for reading

Billie