this year i am sooo exicted and i can't wait until christmas...especially the time just before.
...i
love the cosy advent time with all its christmas baking, crafting and
decorating, so i wanted to make an advent calendar for myself and got
really inspired for one...another one...and another one...and another
one...i could not resist and ended up making a few of them.
i am pretty much in love with all of them and would love to share my creations with you.
the
first one turned out to be bit different as i planned, which you will
notice while watching the tutorial...i kept changing the colour of the
pen and the yarn, i used...but i am so happy with the result...basically
all the results.
by
the way..."vierundzwanzig" means twenty-four in german ...and i thought
it might be good a title, because i am planning to fill the advent
calendar with twenty-four cookies recipes...so a recipe book with 24
recipes can easily be named "vierundzwanzig", even after christmas.
...the
intended more girlie version for my nineteen year old niece turned out
to be too boyish...so i had to think of another girlie version and the
black advent calendar with grey sparkling yarn came into my mind.
i hope you like what you see and maybe i could intrigue a little bit for my other advent calendars to follow....
this is what you need
- felt, 3mm, 30-45cm
- 24 envelopes size dinA 5
- letter and number stencil
- letter and number stencil
- yarn or leather cord
- one eyelet
- eyelet tools
- scissors
- pens ( golden pens do not work on light grey felt)
- fold back paper clip
this is what you have to do
- place one of the envelopes onto to the piece of felt and find the right position, i chose the middle
- place the paper clip right above the envelopes
- attach the envelope to the clip to ensure you are happy with its position
- use a pen to mark, where you want to make your cut
- draw a thin line between the marks
- cut along the line
- insert the paper clip into the split
- choose a position to place the eyelet onto the cover of the advent calendar
- punsh a hole, using a hole punsher or any eyelet tool
- insert the eyelet, using the same tool
-
place your letter stencil onto the cover and carefully choose a
position for you title, so it won't interfere with the eyelet and the
fastening cord
- you might want create a template first, it might be easier for you
- start drawing the letters
- add the numbers 1 to 24 to the twenty-four envelopes
- luckily the stencil i used, contains letters and numbers
- of course you can print the numbers and letters onto the envelopes, but i actually enjoyed doing it the old-fashioned way
- looks nice...but...a bit plain...
- you can add a little "december"...better...???
- i think so
-
now you can stuff your envelopes with anything which comes into your
mind...i used twenty four cookies recipes...baking at this time of the
year is mandatory anyways...and a recipe collection with 24 recipes can
easily be named "vierundzwanzig"
- pull a piece of yarn or leather string through the eyelet
-i haven't had any black yarn on hand and chose black shoe laces instead...not a bad idea
- fold the right side of the felt on top of the envelopes
- fold the left side of the felt on top the right side
- wrap the cord around the "book" to fasten it
- and that's it
- isn't it cool...???
